βασιλικός, βασιλικῇ, βασιλικόν, of or belonging to a king, kingly, royal, regal; of a man, the officer or minister of a prince, a courtier: Joh_4:46; Joh_4:49 (Polybius 4, 76, 2; Plutarch, Sol. 27; often in Josephus). subject to a king: of a country, Act_12:20. befitting or worthy of a king, royal: ἐσθής, Act_12:21. Hence, metaphorically, principal, chief: νόμος, Jas_2:8 (Plato, Min., p. 317 c. τό ὀρθόν νόμος ἐστι βασιλικός, Xenophon, symp. 1, 8 βασιλικόν κάλλος; 4Ma_14:2). STRONGS NT 937a: βασιλίσκος [βασιλίσκος, βασιλισκου, ὁ (diminutive of βασιλεύς), a petty king; a reading noted by WH in their (rejected) margin of Joh_4:46; Joh_4:49. (Polybius, others.)]

βασιλικός basilikos 5x royal, regal, Act_12:20-21 ; βασιλικός , used as a sub st. a person attached to the king, courtier, Joh_4:46 ; Joh_4:49 ; met. royal, of the highest excellence, Jas_2:8

βασιλικός , -ή , -όν ( < βασιλεύς ), [in LXX for H4428 and its cognates;] royal, belonging to a king: χώρα , Act_12:20 ; ἐσθής , Act_12:21 ; νόμος β ., a supreme law , "a law which governs other laws and so has a specially regal character" ( Hort ), or because made by a king ( LAE , p. 367, 3), Jas_2:8 ; τις , one in the service of a king , a courtier , Joh_4:46 ; Joh_4:49 ( WH , mg ., βασιλίσκος ).† † βασιλίσκος , -ου , ὁ ( dim , of βασιλεύς ), [in LXX a basilisk: Psa_91:13 ( H6620 ), Isa_59:5 ( H660 ) * ;] prop ., a petty king: Joh_4:46 ; Joh_4:49 WH , mg . ( see βασιλικός ).†

βασιλικός [page 105] βασιλικός is exceedingly common, but we may note P Petr III. 31 .5 (B.C. 240) π̣ο̣ρευομένου ἐπὶ τῆς βασιλικῆς ὁδοῦ as coeval with the almost identical phrase of the LXX in Num_20:17 . This phrase at a later time was used to render via regalis , a Roman road built by the Emperor : see Ramsay CRE , p. 32 ff., where a Latin inscr. from Pisidia brings the original back to the time of Augustus. The adj. is applied to the revenue in P Petr III. 26 .15 ὁ πράκτωρ ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν βασιλικ (ῶ )ν προσόδων τεταγμένος , the officer appointed to collect the royal revenues ; Chrest. I. 198 .19 (B.C. 240) τῶι ἐμ Βουβάστωι βασιλικῶι θησαυρῶι . In a papyrus of the latter half of ii/A.D., edited by Comparetti in Mιl. Nicole , p. 57 ff., we find iv. 19 βασιλικῷ Ὀξυρυγχείτου . The editor remarks (p. 67) that in the absence of the Strategus his functions were fulfilled by his deputy, the βασιλικὸς γραμματεύς . So P Oxy IX. 1219 .15 (iii/A.D.) Ἀπ [ί ]ωνα τὸν τοῦ Προσωπείτου βασιλικόν , A. the basilicogrammateus of the Prosopite nome (Ed.) : the addressee, another Apion, held the same office in the Letopolite nome cf. l. .20 βασιλικ (ῷ ) γρ (αμματεῖ ). If we might apply the Egyptian analogy, we might assume that γραμματεύς should similarly be supplied in Joh_4:46 ; but the τις raises a difficulty. For the full title cf. Chrest. I. 224 (iii/B.C.), where a man registers his house πρὸς Καλλικράτην τὸν οἰκονόμον καὶ Ἰμούθην τὸν βασιλικὸν γραμματέα , etc. In Chrest. I. 308, an ostracon of ii/B.C., a certain Psenchousis, apparently a clerk in the office of the royal οἰκονόμος , pays 2000 dr. into the bank ἀπὸ τιμῆς ὀθονίων βασιλικῶν τοῦ λ̄ᾱ (ἔτους ) : linen was a royal monopoly. There was in the imperial period a β . τραπεζίτης , as at Heptacomia in P Giss I. 59 iii. 18 (A.D. 118 9). We need not illustrate such a word more fully, but we might quote Syll 846 .3 f. (B.C. 197 6) ἐπὶ τοῖσδε ἀπέδοτο Δαμέας ὁ παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέως Ἀττάλου ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν ἔργων τῶν βασιλικῶν Ἀρτεμιδώραν τὰν βασιλικὰν παιδίσκαν τῶι Ἀπόλλωνι τῶι Πυθίωι for freedom. On νόμος βασιλικός in Jas_2:8 Deissmann refers to a heading probably added in the time of Trajan to an inscription at Pergamum containing the law of astynomy τὸν βασιλικὸν νόμον ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων ἀνέθηκεν , he set up the royal law out of his own means. This designation of the law as royal, because made by one of the kings of Pergamum, points, he thinks, to a similar reference in the first place to the origin of the law in the James passage (see LAE , p. 367, n. .8 ). Grimm notes that the phrase is applied to τὸ ὀρθόν in Plato.

βασιλικός [Etym: like βασίλειος] "royal, kingly", Hdt. , attic "like a king, kingly, princely", βασιλικώτατος Xen. :—adv., βασιλικῶς "as a king, with kingly authority", id=Hdt. as Subst., βασιλική (sub. στοά), "a colonnade" at Athens, Plat. ; v. στοά. βασιλικός, ὁ, "king's officer", NTest.

βασιλικός, -ή, -όν (βασιλεύς), [in LXX for מֶלֶךְ and its cognates ;] royal, belonging to a king: χώρα, Act 12:20; ἐσθής, Act.12:21; νόμος β., a supreme law, "a law which governs other laws and so has a specially regal character" (Hort), or because made by a king (LAE, p. 3673), Jas.2:8; τις, one in the service of a king, a courtier, Jhn.4:46, 49 (WH, mg., βασιλίσκος).† (AS)