Greek noun (feminine) · G938
βασίλισσα
basilissabas-il'-is-sah
queen
4 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: basílissa
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G938is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G938
a queen
The King James renders it: queen.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
basilissa is rendered "queen". It stands 4 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- One of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 12:42The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One greater than Solomon is here.
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One greater than Solomon is here.
Matthew 12:42Βασίλισσα
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's four uses is in Matthew.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- queen3
- a queen1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- βασίλισσα3
- βασιλίσσης1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · feminine singular3N-NSF
- noun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1N-GSF
Matthew
one use
The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with this generation and condemn it; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One greater than Solomon is here.
- Βασίλισσαbasilissanoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: queen
Luke
one use
The Queen of the South will rise at the judgment with the men of this generation and condemn them; for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and now One greater than Solomon is here.
- βασίλισσαbasilissanoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: Queen
Acts
one use
So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to Jerusalem to worship,
- βασιλίσσηςbasilissesnoun · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: queen
Revelation
one use
As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’
- βασίλισσαbasilissanoun · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: a queen
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.