Original Word: βασίλισσα, ης, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: basilissa
Phonetic Spelling: (bas-il'-is-sah)
Definition: a queen
Usage: a queen.Word Origin
fem. from basileus
Definition
a queen
NASB Translation
Queen (2), queen (2).

STRONGS NT 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).)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

queen.

Feminine from basileuo; a queen -- queen.

see GREEK basileuo

Forms and Transliterations

βασιλισσα βασίλισσα βασίλισσαι βασίλισσαν βασιλίσση βασίλισση βασιλισσης βασιλίσσης basilissa basílissa basilisses basilissēs basilísses basilíssēs

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