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Strong's #934 - βασίλειος
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βᾰσίλ-ειος, ον,
also α, ον A. Pers. 589, IG 12.115; Ion. and Aeol. βᾰσιλ-ήϊος, η, ον, also βᾰσιλ-ῇος Melinnoap. Stob. 3.7.12, Hymn.Isa 138: —
1. royal, δεινὸν δὲ γένος βασιλήϊόν ἐστι κτείνειν Od. 16.401; ὁ β. θρόνος Hdt. 1.14, etc.; used by Trag. in lyr., β. οἶκοι, μέλαθρα, A. Ag. 157, Ch. 343; ἰσχύς, τιάρα, Id. Pers. 589, 661; νόστος ὁ β. the king's return, ib. 8; τοῖς β. νόμοις S. Ant. 382; cf. πῆχυς.
2. of the archon βασιλεύς, ἡ β. στοά IG 12.115, Arist. Ath. 7.1, Paus. 1.3.1 (also of the basilica of Herod at Jerusalem, J. AJ 15.11.5).
3. 'royal', i.e. choice, μύρον Sapph. Supp. 23.19, Crates Com. 2; cf. βασίλεια· γένος ἰσχάδων, Hsch.
4. Ἄρτεμις βασιληΐη, divinity in Thrace, Hdt. 4.33.
βασίλειος (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).
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βασίλειος , -ον
(also -α , -ον ; < βασιλεύς ),
[in LXX: Exodus 19:6, Deuteronomy 3:10 (G4467), Exodus 23:22, Wisdom of Solomon 18:15, 3 Maccabees 3:28, 4 Maccabees 3:8 *;]
royal: 1 Peter 2:9 (LXX) (v. Hort, in l).†
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Syll 226.45 (iii/B.C.) πραθέντος τε τοῦ στόλου εἰς βασίλεια , the palace of the satrap Saitaphernes. Dittenberger quotes Boeckh as arguing from the absence of the article that β . was here almost a proper name, as in Herod. iv. 20 : D. however is not convinced that the reference is to the same place. P Petr II. 23 (2).1 shows βασίλειος qualifying γραμματεύς , instead of the regular βασιλικός . In the magic papyrus P Lond 46.448 (iv/A.D.) (= I. p. 79) βασίλιον is used with a symbol which the editor understands as = ";sceptre"; : cf. Wisdom of Solomon 5:16 τὸ βασίλειον τῆς εὐπρεπείας , ";the crown of royal dignity.";
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