What Is Herodias in the Bible?
Person
She was married to a half brother of Herod Antipas. She left her husband to marry Herod Antipas. John the Baptist rebuked Herod for marrying his brother’s wife.
Where it appears in the Bible
Luke 3:19; Mark 6:17-18
What the Bible says
Luke 3:19
But Herod the tetrarch, when he was reproved by him for Herodias, his brother’s wife, and for all the evils which Herod had done;
Mark 6:17-18
17For Herod himself had sent and apprehended John, and bound him in prison for the sake of Herodias the wife of Philip his brother, because he had married her. 18For John said to Herod: It is not lawful for thee to have thy brother’s wife.
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner revision), public domain.
Source: Mark 6:17-18; NABRE note on Matthew 14:3; Catholic Encyclopedia (1913), “Herodias”