βασιλεύς, 
-έως, 
ὁ, 
leader of the people, prince, commander, lord of the land, king; universally: 
οἱ βασιλεῖς τῆς γῆς, 
Matthew 17:25; 
Revelation 16:14 [L T Tr WH omit 
τῆς γῆς], etc.; 
τῶν ἐθνῶν, 
Luke 22:25; of the king of Egypt, 
Acts 7:10, 
18; 
Hebrews 11:23, 
27; of David, 
Matthew 1:6; 
Acts 13:22; of Herod the Great and his successors, 
Matthew 2:1ff; 
Luke 1:5; 
Acts 12:1; 
Acts 25:13; of a tetrarch, 
Matthew 14:9; 
Mark 6:14, 
22 (of the son of a king, Xenophon, oec. 4, 16; "
reges Syriae, 
regis Antiochi pueros, 
scitis Romae nuper fuisse," Cicero, Verr. 2:4, 27, cf. de senectute 17, 59; [Vergil Aen. 9, 223]); of a Roman emperor, 
1 Timothy 2:2; 
1 Peter 2:17, cf. 
Revelation 17:9 (
Revelation 17:10), (so in secular writings in the Roman age, as in Josephus, 
b. j. 5, 13, 6; Herodian, 2, 4, 8 [4 Bekker]; of the son of the emperor, ibid. 1, 5, 15 [5 Bekker]); of the Messiah, 
ὁ βασιλεύς τῶν Ἰουδαίων, 
Matthew 2:2, etc.; 
τοῦ Ἰσραήλ, 
Mark 15:32; 
John 1:49 (
John 1:50); 
John 12:13; of Christians, as to reign over the world with Christ in the millennial kingdom, 
Revelation 1:6; 
Revelation 5:10 (
Rec. in both passages and Griesbach in the latter; see 
βασιλεία, 3 e.); of God, the supreme ruler over all, 
Matthew 5:35; 
1 Timothy 1:17 (see 
αἰών, 2); 
Revelation 15:3; 
βασιλεὺς βασιλέων, 
Revelation 17:14 [but here, as in 
Revelation 19:16 of the victorious Messiah]; 
ὁ βασ. 
τῶν βασιλευόντων, 
1 Timothy 6:15, (2 Macc. 13:4; 3 Macc. 5:35; Enoch 9, 4; [84, 2; Philo de decal. § 10]; cf. [
κύριος τῶν βασ. 
Daniel 2:47]; 
κύριος τ. 
κυρίων, 
Deuteronomy 10:17; 
Psalm 135:3 (
Ps. 136:3; [so of the king of the Parthians, Plutarch, Pomp. § 38, 1]).
 
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    [
βασιλίσκος, 
-ου, 
ὁ, (diminutive of 
βασιλεύς) 
a petty king; a reading noted by WH in their (rejected) marginal reading of 
John 4:46, 
49. (Polybius, others)]
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