βασιλικός

basilikos · royal official

Greek word · Strong’s number G937 · appears 5 times in the Bible

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What it means

basilikos (βασιλικός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “royal official”.

Of the king, royal; as a person, someone in the king's service, a royal official.

How to say it

ba·si·li·kos

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. Belonging to a monarch.
  2. A man of the monarch's court.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • royal ×4
  • king’s country ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • John 4:46

    So he came again to Cana of Galilee, where he had made the water wine. And there was a certain royal official whose son was sick in Capernaum.

  • John 4:49

    The royal official says to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.”

  • Acts 12:20

    Now he was furious with the people of Tyre and Sidon; and with one mind they came to him, and having won over Blastus, the king’s chamberlain, they were asking for peace, because their country was fed from the king’s country.

  • Acts 12:21

    And on an appointed day Herod, having put on royal clothing and taking his seat on the tribunal, was delivering a public address to them.

  • James 2:8

    If you really fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you do well.