βασιλικός
basilikos · royal official
Greek word · Strong’s number G937 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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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
- Belonging to a monarch.
- 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
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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.