ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΑ, βασιλισσα
BASILISSA, basilissa
Sounds Like: bah-see-LEE-ssah
Translations: queen, a queen
From the root: ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a female monarch, a sovereign ruler of a kingdom, or the wife of a king. It is used to denote a woman holding the highest rank in a royal family or government.
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G0938 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Aristeas
- Aristeas’ Letter to Philocrates — 1:41
Codex Sinaiticus
- Esther — 1:9, 1:12, 1:16, 1:19, 4:17k, 5:1d, 5:6, 5:12, 7:2, 7:7, 9:31
- Matthew — 12:42
- Luke — 11:31
- Revelation — 18:7
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 2 — 9:226
- Book 8 — 7:175, 13:330, 13:359
- Book 11 — 6:190, 6:270
- Book 13 — 3:70, 10:285, 11:308, 15:399, 16:420, 16:425
- Book 14 — 7:112
- Book 20 — 5:101
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 1 Kings — 10:1, 10:4, 10:10
- 2 Chronicles — 9:1, 9:3, 9:9
- Esther — 1:9, 1:12, 1:16, 1:19, 4:17, 5:1, 5:6, 5:12, 7:2, 9:29, 9:30
- Psalms — 44:10
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 5:10
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 5:10
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΑ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΣΣΗ — queen, a queen
- ΒΑΣΙΛΕΙΣΣΗΣ — of a queen, of the queen
- ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣ — queen, a queen
- ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣ — queen, a queen
- ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΑΙ — queens, a queen
- ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΑΙΣ — queens, to queens, for queens
- ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΑΝ — queen, a queen
- ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΗ — queen, a queen, of a queen, to a queen
- ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΗΣ — of a queen, of the queen
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