Skip to content

Strong's G935 · Greek

βασιλεύς

basileus · bas-il-yooce'

probably from 939 (through the notion of a foundation of power); a sovereign (abstractly, relatively, or figuratively)


Scholarly Lexicons

Abbott-Smith Manual Greek Lexicon

βασιλεύς (G935)

115 βασιλεύς , -έως, ὁ , [in LXX chiefly for מֶלֶךְ ;] a king : Mt 1:6 2:1 ; used by courtesy of Herod the Tetrarch, Mt 14:9 ; of the Roman Emperor, as freq. in κοινή (Deiss., LAE , p. 367), I Pe 2:13 , 17 ; of the Christ, in the phrase ὁ β. τ. Ἰουδαίων , Mt 2:2 , al.; τοῦ Ἰσραήλ , Mk 15:32 , Jo 1:50 12:13 ; of God, Mt 5:35 , I Ti 1:17 , Re 15:3 ; β. βασιλέων , Re 17:14 19:16 ; β. τ. βασιλευόντων , I Ti 6:15 (on the associations of the word to Jewish Hellenists, v. Cl. Rev. , i, 7).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) — public domain

Verses Where This Word Appears

    ← Back to Greek Lexicon