Biblical Greek

greek #938 - βασίλισσα, ης, ἡ basilissa (a queen)

Original Word:	βασίλισσα, ης, ἡ
Transliteration:	basilissa
Definition:	a queen
Part of Speech:	Noun, Feminine
Phonetic Spelling:	(bas-il'-is-sah)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

queen.

Feminine from basileuo; a queen -- queen.

see GREEK basileuo

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

Strong's 938: βασίλισσα

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).)

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Greek: 938. βασίλισσα (basilissa) — 4 Occurrences

Matthew 12:42 - N-NFS
GRK:βασίλισσα νότου ἐγερθήσεται
NAS:[The] Queen of [the] South will rise
KJV:The queen of the south shall rise up
INT:The queen of [the] south will rise up

Luke 11:31 - N-NFS
GRK:βασίλισσα νότου ἐγερθήσεται
NAS:The Queen of the South will rise
KJV:The queen of the south shall rise up
INT:The queen of [the] south will rise up

Acts 8:27 - N-GFS
GRK:δυνάστης Κανδάκης βασιλίσσης Αἰθιόπων ὃς
NAS: of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians,
KJV: under Candace queen of the Ethiopians,
INT: one in power [under] Candace queen of [the] Ethiopians who

Revelation 18:7 - N-NFS
GRK:ὅτι Κάθημαι βασίλισσα καὶ χήρα
NAS: I SIT [as] A QUEEN AND I AM
KJV: heart, I sit a queen, and am
INT: I sit a queen and a widow

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