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βασιλικός

basilikós · G937 · Greek · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. royal, kingly

    Pertaining to a king

    Examples

    Acts 12:20 Now he was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon; and with one mind they came to him, and having won over Blastus the king’s chamberlain, they were asking for peace, because their country was supported with grain from the king’s country.

    Acts 12:21 On an appointed day, after putting on his royal apparel, Herod took his seat on the rostrum and began delivering an address to them.

    James 2:8 If, however, you are fulfilling the royal law according to the Scripture, “YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF,” you are doing well.

  2. royal official, official of a king

    An official directly responsible to a king

    Examples

    John 4:46 Therefore He came again to Cana of Galilee, where He had made the water into wine. And there was a royal official whose son was sick at Capernaum.

    John 4:49 The royal official said to Him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

How it’s used In 4 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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.

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In the other Testament 1 word
מֶלֶךְ melek · H4428 · king, ruler
מֶלֶךְ (melek, H4428) denotes the sovereign ruler himself ('king'), while βασιλικός (basilikós, G937) denotes what belongs to or befits the king ('royal, regal'); the Hebrew noun serves as the semantic root for the Greek adjective's domain.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Royal, kingly37.69
Used adjectivally of something belonging to a king, as of the royal law of loving one's neighbor in James 2:8.
Royal official, official of a king37.84
Used substantivally of a court official, as of the royal official whose son Jesus heals in John 4:46 and 4:49.
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×βασιλικόςbasilikós · G937βασίλισσα basílissa · G938 · queen · 4×βασίλειος basíleios · G934 · kingly · 2×συμβασιλεύω symbasileúō · G4821 · to be kings together, to reign with · 2×βασίλειον basíleion · G933 · royal, kingly, palace · 0×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon βασιλικῇ, βασιλικόν, of or belonging to a king, kingly, royal, regal; of a man, the…
βασιλικῇ, βασιλικόν, of or belonging to a king, kingly, royal, regal; of a man, the officer or minister of a prince, a courtier: Jn 4:46, Jn 4:49 (Polybius 4, 76, 2; Plutarch, Sol. 27; often in Josephus). subject to a king: of a country, Acts 12:20. befitting or worthy of a king, royal: ἐσθής, Acts 12:21. Hence, metaphorically, principal, chief: νόμος, Jas 2:8 (Plato, Min., p. 317 c. τό ὀρθόν νόμος ἐστι βασιλικός, Xenophon, symp. 1, 8 βασιλικόν κάλλος; 4 Macc. 14:2).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Rule, Govern5 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; 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.

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

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