βασιλεύς,
-έως,
ὁ,
leader of the people, prince, commander, lord of the land, king; universally:
οἱ βασιλεῖς τῆς γῆς,
Matthew 17:25;
Revelation 16:14 [L T Tr WH omit
τῆς γῆς], etc.;
τῶν ἐθνῶν,
Luke 22:25; of the king of Egypt,
Acts 7:10,
18;
Hebrews 11:23,
27; of David,
Matthew 1:6;
Acts 13:22; of Herod the Great and his successors,
Matthew 2:1ff;
Luke 1:5;
Acts 12:1;
Acts 25:13; of a tetrarch,
Matthew 14:9;
Mark 6:14,
22 (of the son of a king, Xenophon, oec. 4, 16; "
reges Syriae,
regis Antiochi pueros,
scitis Romae nuper fuisse," Cicero, Verr. 2:4, 27, cf. de senectute 17, 59; [Vergil Aen. 9, 223]); of a Roman emperor,
1 Timothy 2:2;
1 Peter 2:17, cf.
Revelation 17:9 (
Revelation 17:10), (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,
Matthew 2:2, etc.;
τοῦ Ἰσραήλ,
Mark 15:32;
John 1:49 (
John 1:50);
John 12:13; of Christians, as to reign over the world with Christ in the millennial kingdom,
Revelation 1:6;
Revelation 5:10 (
Rec. in both passages and Griesbach in the latter; see
βασιλεία, 3 e.); of God, the supreme ruler over all,
Matthew 5:35;
1 Timothy 1:17 (see
αἰών, 2);
Revelation 15:3;
βασιλεὺς βασιλέων,
Revelation 17:14 [but here, as in
Revelation 19:16 of the victorious Messiah];
ὁ βασ.
τῶν βασιλευόντων,
1 Timothy 6:15, (2 Macc. 13:4; 3 Macc. 5:35; Enoch 9, 4; [84, 2; Philo de decal. § 10]; cf. [
κύριος τῶν βασ.
Daniel 2:47];
κύριος τ.
κυρίων,
Deuteronomy 10:17;
Psalm 135:3 (
Ps. 136:3; [so of the king of the Parthians, Plutarch, Pomp. § 38, 1]).