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Literally the governor over a fourth part of a province, but also applied to the governor of any small province. It is employed in the
N.T. in reference to Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee and Peraea; Philip, tetrarch of Ituraea and Trachonitis; and Lysanias, tetrarch of Abilene. Mal. 14: 1; Luke 3: 1, 19; Luke 9: 7; Acts 13: 1.