King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G938
Transliteration: basilissa
Phonetic Spelling: (bas-il'-is-sah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: a queen
Meaning: Queen -- a queen
βασίλισσα, βασιλίσσης, ἡ, queen: Matthew 12:42; Luke 11:31; Acts 8:27; Revelation 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).)
Word Summary
basilissa: a queen
Original Word: βασίλισσαTransliteration: basilissa
Phonetic Spelling: (bas-il'-is-sah)
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: a queen
Meaning: Queen -- a queen
Strong's Concordance
queen. Feminine from basileuo; a queen -- queen.
see GREEK basileuo
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 938: βασίλισσαβασίλισσα, βασιλίσσης, ἡ, queen: Matthew 12:42; Luke 11:31; Acts 8:27; Revelation 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).)