βασιλεύς

βασιλέως, ὁ, leader of the people, prince, commander, lord of the land, king; universally: οἱ βασιλεῖς τῆς γῆς, Mt 17:25; Rev 16:14 (L T Tr WH omit τῆς γῆς), etc.; τῶν ἐθνῶν, Lk 22:25; of the king of Egypt, Acts 7:10, Acts 7:18; Heb 11:23, Heb 11:27; of David, Mt 1:6; Acts 13:22; of Herod the Great and his successors, Mt 2:1ff; Lk 1:5; Acts 12:1; Acts 25:13; of a tetrarch, Mt 14:9; Mk 6:14, Mk 6:22 (of the son of a king, Xenophon, oec. 4, 16; "regesSyriac,regisAntiochipueros,scitisRomaenuperfuisse," Cicero, Verr. 2:4, 27, cf. de senectute 17, 59; (Vergil Aen. 9, 223)); of a Roman emperor, 1 Tim 2:2; 1 Pet 2:17, cf. Rev 17:9 (10), (so in secular writings in the Roman age, as in Josephus, b. j. 5, 13, 6; Herodian, 2, 4, 8 (4 Bekker); of the son of the emperor, ibid. 1, 5, 15 (5 Bekker)); of the Messiah, ὁ βασιλεύς τῶν Ἰουδαίων, Mt 2:2, etc.; τοῦ Ἰσραήλ, Mk 15:32; Jn 1:49 (50); ; of Christians, as to reign over the world with Christ in the millennial kingdom, Rev 1:6; Rev 5:10 (Rec. in both passages and (Griesbach in the latter; see βασιλεία, 3 e.); of God, the supreme ruler over all, Mt 5:35; 1 Tim 1:17 (see αἰών, 2); Rev 15:3; βασιλεύς βασιλέων, Rev 17:14 (but here, as in Rev 19:16 of the victorious Messiah); ὁ βασιλεία τῶν βασιλευόντων, 1 Tim 6:15 (2 Macc. 13:4; 3Macc. 5:35; Enoch 9, 4; (84, 2; Philo de decal. § 10); cf. (κύριος τῶν βασιλειῶν, Dan 2:47); κύριος τῶν κυρίων, Deut 10:17; Ps 135:3 (; (so of the king of the Parthians, Plutarch, Pomp. § 38, 1)).