eRhema Explore
Word

βασίλειος

basíleios · G934 · Greek · 2 occurrences

See all 2 in Search

Meanings

  1. royal, kingly

    Pertaining to a king

    Examples

    1 Peter 2:9 But you are A CHOSEN PEOPLE, A royal PRIESTHOOD, A HOLY NATION, A PEOPLE FOR GOD’S OWN POSSESSION, so that you may proclaim the excellencies of Him who has called you out of darkness into His marvelous light;

  2. palace

    (Ου n) The dwelling of a king or ruler; usually larger and more elaborate than the dwelling of an average person

    Examples

    Luke 7:25 “But what did you go out to see? A man dressed in soft clothing? Those who are splendidly clothed and live in luxury are found in royal palaces!

How it’s used

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Semantic domains 2 entries
Royal, kingly37.69
Used adjectivally of royal apparel, as of the royal robes Herod puts on before his public address in Acts 12:21.
Palace7.5
Used of the royal residence itself, as of those who wear soft clothing found in kings' palaces in Matthew 11:8 and Luke 7:25.
Word family 8 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

βασιλεύς basileús · G935 · king · 115×βασιλεία basileía · G932 · rule, reign, kingdom · 162×βασιλεύω basileúō · G936 · to rule, to be a king, to reign · 21×βασιλικός basilikós · G937 · royal, kingly, royal official · 5×βασίλισσα basílissa · G938 · queen · 4×βασίλειοςbasíleios · G934συμβασιλεύω symbasileúō · G4821 · to be kings together, to reign with · 2×βασίλειον basíleion · G933 · royal, kingly, palace · 0×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (rarely βασιλεία), βασίλειον, royal, kingly, regal: 1 Pet 2:9. As a substantive, τό…
(rarely βασιλεία), βασίλειον, royal, kingly, regal: 1 Pet 2:9. As a substantive, τό βασίλειον (Xenophon, Cyril 2, 4, 3; Prov 18:19, the Sept.; Josephus, Antiquities 6, 12, 4), and much more often (from Herodotus 1, 30 down) in plural τά βασιλεία (the Sept. Est 1:9, etc.), the royal palace: Lk 7:25 (A. V. "kings courts).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1971, 1977, 1995, 2020 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. All rights reserved. For Permission to Quote Information visit http://www.lockman.org.