Basileus βασιλεύς

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Basileus
βασιλεύς
Transliterationbasileus
Strong's numberG935
LanguageGreek
Part of speechmasculine noun
Glossking
Occurrences116 in 105 verses
Most frequent inMatthew (22)

Basileus (Greek βασιλεύς, Strong's G935) is a Greek masculine noun meaning “king”. It occurs 116 times in 105 verses of the New Testament.

Definition

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

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Greek (based on Abbott-Smith), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVking (84), kings (29), king's (2)
BSBking (81), kings (28), king's (3), o king (2)

Verses

Every verse with Basileus, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Matthew

Mark

Luke

John

Acts

2 Corinthians

1 Timothy

Hebrews

1 Peter

Revelation

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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