adjective
basileiem
Strong’sG934
courtiers, palaces, a body of kings, royal
stem basilei-once in the New Testament1 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
βασίλειος, -ον (also -α, -ον;
< βασιλεύς), [in LXX; Ex 19:6, De 3:10 (מַמְלָכָה), Ex 23:22, Wi 18:15, III Mac 3:28, IV Mac 3:8*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G934 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbas-il'-i-os
kingly (in nature)
Fromfrom G935;
King Jamesroyal.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
also α, ον Refs 4th c.BC+; Ionic dialect and Aeolic dialect βᾰσιλ-ήϊος, η, ον, also βᾰσιλ-ῇος Melinnoap.Refs 5th c.AD+:— royal, δεινὸν δὲ γένος βασιλήϊόν ἐστι κτείνειν Refs 8th c.BC+; used by Trag. in Lyric poetry, β. οἶκοι, μέλαθρα, Refs 4th c.BC+; ἰσχύς, τιάρα, Refs; νόστος ὁ β. the king's return,Refs 5th c.BC+; compare πῆχυς.
2 of the archon βασιλεύς, ἡ β. στοά Refs 4th c.BC+ (also of the basilica of Herod at Jerusalem, Refs 1st c.AD+
3 'royal', i.e.choice, μύρον Refs 7th c.BC+; compare βασίλεια· γένος ἰσχάδων, Refs 5th c.AD+
4 Ἄρτεμις βασιληΐη, divinity in Thrace, Refs 5th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | basileios | basileias | basileiem1×βασίλειον | basileiois | basileiais | basileieim |
| object accusative | basileion | basileian | basileioin | basileiain | ||
| direct address vocative | basileior | basileiar | basileioir | basileiair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | basileiou | basileiau | basileieu | basileioiu | basileiaiu | basileieiu |
| to, for dative | basileio | basileia | basileie | basileioi | basileiai | basileiei |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
basilei is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
basileiem“royal”subject or objectdirect singular1×
1 Peter 2:9Vis de genem eklektem, basileiem hierateumem, ethnem hagiem, laos eis peripoiēsian, …… you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people …