Quick Definition
βασίλισσα, ης, ἡ n.f. a queen
Strong's Definition
feminine from 936; a queen
KJV Usage: queen
UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament
noun, f. | -ης | βασιλεύω
1 In certain contexts outside of the NT, βασίλισσα is employed to refer to the wife of a king.
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
βασίλισσα, -ης, 7, queen: Mt. xii. 42; Lk. xi. 31; Acts viii. 27; Rey. xviii. 7. (Xen. oee. 9, 15; Aristot. oec. 9 [in Bekker, Anecd. i. p. 84; ef. frag. 385 (fr. Poll. 8, 90) p. 1542", 25]; Polyb. 23, 18, 2 [exerpt. Vales. 7], and often in later writ.; Sept.; Joseph.; the Atticists prefer the forms βασιλίς and βασίλεια; cf. Lob. ad Phryn. p- 225; [on the termination, corresponding to Eng. -ess, οἵ. W. 24; B. 73; Soph. Lex. p. 37; Sturz, De dial. Maced. et Alex. p. 151 sqq.; Curtius p. 653].)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
βασίλισσα basilissa 4x
a queen, Mt. 12:42; Lk. 11:31; Acts 8:27; Rev. 18:7*
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
βασίλισσα, -ης, ἡ
(in Attic, βασιλεία, βασιλίς), [in LXX chiefly for מַלְכָּה;]
a queen: Mt 12:42, Lk 11:31, Ac 8:27, Re 18:7.†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
βασίλισσα the latter half of ii/A.p., edited by Comparetti in AZ¢/. Nicole, Ρ- 57 ff, we find * 2 βασιλικῷ ᾿Οξυρυγχείτου. 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.) 12198 (iii/a.p.) “Am[(ova τὸν τοῦ TIpocwrre(rov βασιλικόν, ** A. the basilicogrammateus of the Prosopite nome ” (Ed.): the addressee, another Apion, held the same office in the Letopolite nome—cf. 1.2° βασιλικ(ῷ) yp(apparet). If we might apply the Egyptian analogy, we might assume that γραμματεύς should similarly be supplied in Jn 48; but the tts raises a difficulty. Tor the full title cf. Chrest. I. 224 (ini/B.c.), where a man registers his house πρὸς Καλλικράτην τὸν οἰκονόμον καὶ ᾿Ιμούθην τὸν βασιλικὸν γραμματέα, εἴς. In Chres?. 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 tod Aa (ἔτους) : linen was ἃ royal monopoly. There was in the imperial period a B. τραπεζίτης, as at Heptacomia in P Giss I. 50}: 15 (A.p. 118-9). We need not illustrate such a word more fully, but we might quote Sy// 8465: (B.c. 197-6) ἐπὶ τοῖσδε ἀπέδοτο Aapéas 6 παρὰ τοῦ βασιλέως ᾿Αττάλου ὁ ἐπὶ τῶν ἔργων τῶν βασιλικῶν ᾿Αρτεμιδώραν τὰν βασιλικὰν παιδίσκαν τῶι ᾿Απόλλωνι τῶι ΤΠυθίωι for freedom. On νόμος βασιλικός in Jas 25 Deissmann refers to a heading probably added in the time of Trajan'to an inscription at Pergamum containing the law of astynomy—rdv 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 ovzgz of the law in the James passage (see ZAZ, p. 367, n.$). Grimm notes that the phrase is applied to τὸ ὀρθόν in Plato.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon
βασίλισσα (basilissa) — queen. βᾰσῐλ-ισσα, ἡ, ={βασίλειᾰ}, queen, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. wife of the ἄρχων βασιλεύς at Athens, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—also βασίλιννα, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
3. the Roman Empress, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
4. ={βασιλεύς} VI, PMag.Leid. V.[Refs]
βασίλισσα (basilissa) — queen. βᾰσῐλ-ισσα, ἡ, ={βασίλειᾰ}, queen, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. wife of the ἄρχων βασιλεύς at Athens, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]:—also βασίλιννα, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
3. the Roman Empress, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
4. ={βασιλεύς} VI, PMag.Leid. V.[Refs]