noun · feminine
basilissas
Strong’sG938
a queen
stem basiliss-4 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books2 of 10 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.
βασίλισσα, -ης, ἡ
(in Attic, βασιλεία, βασιλίς), [in LXX chiefly for מַלְכָּה;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G938 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidbas-il'-is-sah
a queen
Fromfeminine from G936;
King Jamesqueen.
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
={βασίλειᾰ}, queen, Refs 5th c.BC+
2 wife of the ἄρχων βασιλεύς at Athens, Refs 2nd c.AD+:—also βασίλιννα, Refs 4th c.BC+
3 the Roman Empress, Refs 2nd c.AD+
4 ={βασιλεύς} VI, PMag.Leid. V.Refs
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 | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | basilissas3×βασίλισσα | basilissais |
| object accusative | basilissan | basilissain |
| direct address vocative | basilissar | basilissair |
| of, belonging to genitive | basilissau1×βασιλίσσης | basilissaiu |
| to, for dative | basilissa | basilissai |
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
basilissa 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
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
4 occurrences, every one of them listed
basilissas“queen”subjectnominative singular3×
Matthew 12:42basilissas notou egeriti en ta krisia meta …The Queen of the South will rise at …
Luke 11:31basilissas notou egeriti en ta krisia meta …The Queen of the South will rise at …
Revelation 18:7… ta kardia autau legatō hoti Kathomō basilissas, kai chēras ouk amō, kai penthem …… heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and …
basilissau“queen”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Acts 8:27… idou andros Aithiopos eunouchos dunastos Kandakau basilissau Aithiopoiu, hos ate epi pantau tau …… of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone …