Lexical Summary basileios: royal Original Word: βασίλειοςTransliteration: basileios Phonetic Spelling: (bas-il'-i-os) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: royal Meaning: royal Strong's Concordance royal. From basileus; kingly (in nature) -- royal. see GREEK basileus Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 934: βασίλειοςβασίλειος (rarely βασιλεία), βασίλειον, royal, kingly, regal: 1 Peter 2:9. As a substantive, τό βασίλειον (Xenophon, Cyril 2, 4, 3; Proverbs 18:19, the Sept.; Josephus, Antiquities 6, 12, 4), and much more often (from Herodotus 1, 30 down) in plural τά βασιλεία (the Sept. Esther 1:9, etc.), the royal palace: Luke 7:25 (A. V. "kings courts). |