βᾰσῐλ-εύς, ὁ,
gen. έως, ῆος, Cypr. ῆϝος Inscr.Cypr. 104,135H.: acc. βασιλέα, contr. -ῆ Orac. ap. Hdt. 7.220, E. Fr. 781.24 (lyr.): nom. pl. βασιλεῖς, Aeol. -ηες Sapph. Supp. 6.4, IG 12(2).6 (Mytil.), -ειες ib. 646a45, al., -ῆες, old Att. -ῆς S. Aj. 188, 960 (both lyr.), cf. Hdn. Gr. 1.430: acc. pl. βασιλέας IG 12.115, later βασιλεῖς ib.2.243, etc.: -
I
1. king, chief, Hom., etc.: freq. with collat. sense of captain or judge, Hes. Op. 202; διοτρεφέες β. Il. 2.445, etc.; θεῖοι Od. 4.691, etc.; later, hereditary king, opp. τύραννος, Arist. EN 1160b3, etc.; but also of tyrants, as Hiero, Pi. O. 1.23; of Gelo, Hdt. 7.161; of Pisistratus, Eup. 123, cf. Sch. Ar. Ach. 61: joined with a Subst., βασιλεὺς ἀνήρ Il. 3.170, etc.; ἀνὴρ β. Hdt. 1.90; ἄναξ β. lord king, A. Pers. 5, cf. B. 17.1: c. gen., β. νεῶν A. Ag. 114 (anap.); οἰωνῶν β., of the eagle, ibid., Pi. O. 13.21: Comp. βασιλεύτερος more kingly, Il. 9.160, 392, Od. 15.533, Tyrt. 12.7: Sup. βασιλεύτατος Il. 9.69. of the gods, Ζεὺς θεῶν β. Hes. Th. 886, cf. Pi. O. 7.34, Emp. 128.2, etc. (in this sense Hom. uses ἄναξ); as cult title of Zeus, IG 7.3073.90 (Lebad.), SIG 1014.110 (Erythrae), etc. (but Ζεὺς β., = Ahuramazda, X. Cyr. 3.3.21, al., Arr. An. 4.20.3); ὁ μέγας β., of God, LXX [Psa 48:2](47).2, Ph. 2.107: Sup. βασιλεύτατοι τῶν θεῶν Max.Tyr. 29.5.
2. as a title of rank, prince, β. εἰσὶ καὶ ἄλλοι πολλοὶ ἐν.. Ἰθάκῃ Od. 1.394, cf. 8.390, etc.; of Cyrus, X. Oec. 4.16. descendant of a royal house, esp. in Ionia, Arist. Ath. 41.3; βασιλέων οἶκοι ’estates of the royal house’, name of a district in Chios, Ἀθηνᾶ 20.168.
3. generally, lord, master, Il. 18.556, Pi. O. 6.47.
4. metaph., πόλεμος πάντων β. Heraclit. 53; νόμος ὁ πάντων β. Pi. Fr. 169.
II
1. at Athens, the second of the nine Archons, IG 12.76, al., Antipho 6.38, Lys. 6.4, Arist. Pol. 1285b17, Ath. 57, etc.; ἡ τοῦ β. στοά Pl. Euthphr. 2a.
2. title of magistrates in other Greek states, as βασιλᾶες at Elis, GDI 1152, cf. IG 12(2).6 (Mytil.), etc., Arist. Pol. 1322b29.
3. at Rome, β. τῶν ἱερῶν, = rex sacrorum, D.H. 5.1, cf. D.C. 54.27.
III after the Persian war (without Art.),
1. the king of Persia, Hdt. 7.174,al.; ἄναξ Ξέρξης β. A. Pers. 5, cf. 144, Ar. Ach. 61, Th. 8.48, IG 22.141 (βασιλῆς βασιλέως ὕποχοι μεγάλου, of the Satraps, A. Pers. 24, cf. 44, S.E. M. 2.22); less freq. ὁ βασιλεύς Hdt. 1.132, 137, Arist. Pol. 1304b13; β. ὁ μέγας Hdt. 1.188.
2. of Alexander and his successors, usually with Art., IG 22.641,687, Men. 293, 340 (pl.); Σέλευκος Antiph. 187; Ἀντίγονος Alex.III; Πτολεμαῖος Id. 244; Ὀσυμανδύας βασιλεὺς βασιλέων D.S. 1.47; title used by Parthian kings, Plu. Pomp. 38, D.C. 37.6, etc.; by Antony, Plu. Ant. 54; of God, [Rev 17:14], [Rev 19:16].
3. of the Roman emperors, AP 10.25 (Antip. Thess.); β. Ῥωμαίων BGU 588.10 (i A.D.), etc., cf. [1Ti 2:2], J. AJ 14.15.14; β. αὐτοκράτωρ IG 3.13 (Hadrian), Hdn. 1.6.5; without Art., Paus. 10.32.19.
1. of any great man, πένησί τε καὶ βασιλεῦσιν Ps.-Phoc. 113.
2. first or most distinguished of any class, Ἡρώδην τὸν β. τῶν λόγων Philostr. VS 2.10.1, cf. Luc. Rh.Pr. II; winner at a game, Poll. 9.106, Sch. Pl. Tht. 146a; Stoic sage, μόνος β. Luc. Herm. 16; βασιλέως ἐγκέφαλος ’morsel fit for a king’, Clearch. 5; β. σῦκα, name of a choice kind, Philem.Lex. ap. Ath. 3.76f., cf. Poll. 6.81. = συμποσίαρχος, Plu. 2.622a, Luc. Sat. 4. wren, Arist. HA 592b27. queen-bee, ib. 623b9, GA 759a20, etc. (The form βασιλέα is scanned in Pi. N. 1.39; codd. βασίλεια.)
G935 — βασιλεύς
βασιλέως, ὁ, leader of the people, prince, commander, lord of the land, king; universally: οἱ βασιλεῖς τῆς γῆς, [Mat 17:25]; [Rev 16:14] (L T Tr WH omit τῆς γῆς), etc.; τῶν ἐθνῶν, [Luk 22:25]; of the king of Egypt, [Act 7:10], [Act 7:18]; [Heb 11:23], [Heb 11:27]; of David, [Mat 1:6]; [Act 13:22]; of Herod the Great and his successors, [Mat 2:1]ff; [Luk 1:5]; [Act 12:1]; [Act 25:13]; of a tetrarch, [Mat 14:9]; [Mar 6:14], [Mar 6:22] (of the son of a king, Xenophon, oec. 4, 16; "regesSyriac,regisAntiochipueros,scitisRomaenuperfuisse," Cicero, Verr. 2:4, 27, cf. de senectute 17, 59; (Vergil Aen. 9, 223)); of a Roman emperor, [1Ti 2:2]; [1Pe 2:17], cf. [Rev 17:9] (10), (so in secular writings in the Roman age, as in Josephus, b. j. 5, 13, 6; Herodian, 2, 4, 8 (4 Bekker); of the son of the emperor, ibid. 1, 5, 15 (5 Bekker)); of the Messiah, ὁ βασιλεύς τῶν Ἰουδαίων, [Mat 2:2], etc.; τοῦ Ἰσραήλ, [Mar 15:32]; [Joh 1:49] (50); ; of Christians, as to reign over the world with Christ in the millennial kingdom, [Rev 1:6]; [Rev 5:10] (Rec. in both passages and (Griesbach in the latter; see βασιλεία, 3 e.); of God, the supreme ruler over all, [Mat 5:35]; [1Ti 1:17] (see αἰών, 2); [Rev 15:3]; βασιλεύς βασιλέων, [Rev 17:14] (but here, as in [Rev 19:16] of the victorious Messiah); ὁ βασιλεία τῶν βασιλευόντων, [1Ti 6:15] (2 Macc. 13:4; 3Macc. 5:35; Enoch 9, 4; (84, 2; Philo de decal. § 10); cf. (κύριος τῶν βασιλειῶν, [Dan 2:47]); κύριος τῶν κυρίων, [Deu 10:17]; [Psa 135:3] (; (so of the king of the Parthians, Plutarch, Pomp. § 38, 1)).