Word

βασίλισσα

basílissa · G938 · Greek · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

queen

A female ruler who has absolute authority within a particular area and who is able to pass on the power to rule to a successor

Examples
Matthew 12:42 “The Queen of the South will rise up with this generation at the judgment and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Luke 11:31 “The Queen of the South will rise up with the men of this generation at the judgment and condemn them, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, something greater than Solomon is here.
Acts 8:27 So he got ready and went; and there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, who was in charge of all her treasure; and he had come to Jerusalem to worship,

How it’s used In 3 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 2 groups

νότοςsouth 2
Αἰθίοψan Ethiopian 1

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Κανδάκηthe Candace 1

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

ἐγείρωto raise, to get up 2

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 2 words

מַלְכָּה malkâh · H4436 · queen: מַלְכָּה (malkâh, H4436) is the standard Hebrew lexical equivalent for βασίλισσα (basílissa, G938), both denoting a queen as female monarch or royal consort.
מְלֶכֶת mᵉleketh · H4446 · queen: Hebrew מְלֶכֶת (mᵉleketh, H4446) and Greek βασίλισσα (basílissa, G938) both denote a female monarch or royal consort, forming a direct translation equivalent across the Hebrew Bible and Septuagint corpus.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Queen37.68: Used of a female sovereign ruler, as of the queen of the South who will rise up in judgment in Matthew 12:42 and the Ethiopian queen Candace's treasurer in Acts 8:27.

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×βασίλισσαbasílissa · G938βασίλειος 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 βασιλίσσης, ἡ, queen: Mt 12:42; Lk 11:31; Acts 8:27; Rev 18:7. (Xenophon, oec. 9, 15;…

βασιλίσσης, ἡ, queen: Mt 12:42; Lk 11:31; Acts 8:27; Rev 18:7. (Xenophon, oec. 9, 15; Aristotle, oec. 9 (in Bekker, Anecd. i., p. 84; cf. fragment 385 (from Pollux 8, 90), p. 1542{a}, 25); Polybius 23, 18, 2 (excerpt Vales. 7), and often in later writings; the Sept.; Josephus; the Atticists prefer the forms βασιλίς and βασιλεία; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 225; (on the termination, corresponding to the English -ess, cf. Winers Grammar, 24; Buttmann, 73; Sophocles Lexicon, p. 37; Sturz, De dial. Maced. et Alex., p. 151ff; Curtius, p. 653).)

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Rule, Govern4 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