Trypho

Family: Syrian · Role: tyrant · First appears: Book I, Chapter 2

Trypho was a Syrian tyrant who, in Book I, Chapter 2, served as guardian to Antiochus’s son and plotted against Jonathan, seeking to remove his friends. He captured Jonathan by a ruse as he traveled to Ptolemais, put him in bonds, and marched against the Jews; after Simon drove him away, Trypho, enraged by the defeat, put Jonathan to death.

In Book I, Chapter 27, Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros) brought an assembly against Tero, the captains, and Trypho, who was identified as a barber. The people condemned and killed them by throwing pieces of wood and stones.

Relationship record

Life events

• Trypho put Jonathan to death.(Book I, Chapter 2)
  • With: Jonathan (brother of Judas)
  • “he put Jonathan to death.”
• Herod’s assembly condemned Tero, the captains, and Trypho, who were killed by the people.(Book I, Chapter 27)
  • With: Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros) Tero
  • “and accordingly there were they put to death, together with [Trypho] the barber; they were killed by the pieces of wood and the stones that were thrown at them.”

Book I, Chapter 2

• enemies with Jonathan (brother of Judas) “Yet was not all this sufficient for his security; for the tyrant Trypho, who was guardian to Antiochus's son, laid a plot against him; and besides that, endeavored to take off his friends, and caught Jonathan by a wile, as he was going to Ptolemais to Antiochus, with a few persons in his company, and put him in bonds, and then made an expedition against the Jews; but when he was afterward driven away by Simon, who was Jonathan's brother, and was enraged at his defeat, he put Jonathan to death.”
• enemies with Simon (brother of Jonathan) “but when he was afterward driven away by Simon, who was Jonathan's brother, and was enraged at his defeat, he put Jonathan to death.”

Book I, Chapter 27

• with Herod (son of Antipater and Cypros) (interaction) “And now Herod accused the captains and Tero in an assembly of the people, and brought the people together in a body against them; and accordingly there were they put to death, together with [Trypho] the barber”
• with Tero (Trypho accused Tero of soliciting him to assassinate Herod.) “This Tero endeavored to persuade me also to cut thy throat with my razor, when I trimmed thee, and promised that Alexander should give me large presents for so doing.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Wars of the Jews; Or, The History of the Destruction of Jerusalem. Made with Rho MD.