ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΗ, βασιλισση
BASILISSĒ, basilissē
Sounds Like: bah-see-LEE-see
Translations: queen, a queen, of a queen, to a queen
From the root: ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΑ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a female monarch, the wife of a king, or a powerful female ruler. It is used to denote the highest-ranking female in a kingdom or empire. In the provided examples, it appears in the dative case (to the queen) and the genitive case (of the queen).
Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Genitive, or Dative, Feminine
Strong’s number: G0938 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
Josephus' Against Apion
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
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
- ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΑ — queen, a queen
- ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΑΙ — queens, a queen
- ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΑΙΣ — queens, to queens, for queens
- ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΑΝ — queen, a queen
- ΒΑΣΙΛΙΣΣΗΣ — of a queen, of the queen
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