- βασίλειος
- βασίλειος, ον (Hom. et al.; LXX; PsSol 17:4, 6; TestSol 5:5; TestJud) pert. to a king, royal (oracular saying in Diod S 7, 17 κράτος βασίλειον) β. ἱεράτευμα 1 Pt 2:9 (Ex 19:6; 23:22; but s. JElliott, The Elect and the Holy, ’66, 149–54). Used as a noun the pl. τὰ β. (since Hdt. 1, 30, 1; also SIG 495, 45; PSI 488, 11; PColZen 39, 8; PCairZen 664, 1; 758, 7 [all III B.C.]; PGM 2, 181; 4, 1061–62; Esth 1:9; Philo, In Flacc. 92; Jos., Ant. 13, 138) and more rarely the sg. τὸ β. (X., Cyr. 2, 4, 3; Pr 18:19; PsSol [‘royal majesty’, sim. TestSol, TestJud]; Philo, Sobr. 66; Jos., Ant. 6, 251) means the (royal) palace Lk 7:25.—In 2 Cl τὸ β. = ἡ βασιλεία (B-D-F 50; cp. TestJud 17:6, 22f; SibOr 3, 159; Just., A I, 32, 2; D. 31, 5 [Da 7:22]; Gaius in Eus., HE 3, 28, 2.—Polyaenus 8, 55 uses the pl. τὰ βασίλεια = ἡ βασιλεία): εἰσέρχεσθαι εἰς τὸ β. τοῦ θεοῦ 6:9; ὁρᾶν τὸ β. τοῦ κόσμου 17:5.—DELG s.v. βασιλεύς. M-M. TW. Spicq.
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