Bible Dictionaries
Caesar

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Search for…

Enter query below:

or

A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Y Z

Prev Entry
Cabul

Next Entry
Caesar's Household

Resource Toolbox

Print Article

Additional Links

Concordances
Nave Topical Bible
• Tiberius Caesar
• Caesar
Thompson Chain Reference
• Tiberias Caesar
• Claudius Caesar
• Caesar
Treasury of Biblical Knowledge
• Rulers & Governors Etc- Claudius; Caesar, Esar-Haddon
Dictionaries
American Tract Society
• Claudius Caesar
• Caesar
Bridgeway Bible Dictionary
• Caesar
CARM Theological Dictionary
• Caesar
Easton's Bible Dictionary
• Tiberius Caesar
• Caesar
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Caesar
• Augustus Caesar
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Titus, Caesar
• Tiberius Caesar
• Julius Caesar
•   (only first 3 shown)
Hastings' BibleDictionary
• Caesar's Household
• Caesar
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Caesar, Caesar's Household
• Caesar
Dictionary of Early Christian Biography
• Nero, Claudius Caesar
• Gallus, Caesar
Morrish Bible Dictionary
• Tiberius Caesar
• Caesar
• Augustus Caesar
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Caesar
• Augustus, Caius Julius Caesar Octavianus
Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Caesar
Smith Bible Dictionary
• Caesar
Wilson's Bible Types
• Caesar
Webster Dictionary
• Caesarism
• Caesar
Watson's Theological Dictionary
• Caesar
Encyclopedias
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Caesar Baronius
• Caesar Henry Hawkins
• Drusus Caesar
•   (only first 3 shown)
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Caesar
• Caesar's Household
• Household, Caesar's
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
• Caesar
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Baronius or Baronio, Caesar
• Borgia, Caesar
• Borgia, Caesar, (2)
•   (only first 3 shown)
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Caesar of Speyer (or Spires)
• Julius Caesar Scaliger
Lexicons
• ܩܶܣܰܪ
• Καῖσαρ
• Κλαύδιος

CÆSAR . This is the cognomen or surname of the gens Julia , which was borne, for example, by its most illustrious representative, Caius Julius Cæsar. The emperor Augustus (b.c. 23 a.d. 14) had it by adoption, and was officially named ‘Imperator Cæsar Augustus.’ His stepson, the emperor Tiberius, officially ‘Tiberius Cæsar Augustus’ (a.d. 14 37), had it through his adoption by Augustus. It was borne also, amongst other less important persons, by the emperor Caius Cæsar Germanicus (nicknamed ‘Caligula,’ ‘Boots’) (a.d. 37 41), who was a son of Germanicus, the adopted son of the emperor Tiberius. These alone among the Roman emperors had it as a family name, but all the emperors bore it as a title except Vitellius (a.d. 69), and hence we find it continued in the titles Kaiser and Czar . The beginning of this use is seen in the NT. There the name is found always, except twice ( Luke 2:1; Luke 3:1 ), by itself, simply equal to ‘the Emperor.’ The remaining emperors of the 1st cent. are Claudius (wh. see), Nero (wh. see), Galba (9 June 68 15 Jan. 69), Otho (15 Jan. 25 Apr. 69), Vitellius (2 Jan. 69 20 [?] Dec. 70), Vespasian (69 79), Titus (71 79 81), Domitian (81 96), Nerva (96 98), Trajan (97 98 117).

A. Souter.