βασίλισσα, βασιλίσσης, ἡ, queen: Mat_12:42; Luk_11:31; Act_8:27; Rev_18:7. (Xenophon, oec. 9, 15; Aristotle, oec. 9 (in Bekker, Anecd. i., p. 84; cf. fragment 385 (from Pollux 8, 90), p. 1542{a} , 25); Polybius 23, 18, 2 (excerpt Vales. 7), and often in later writings; the Sept.; Josephus; the Atticists prefer the forms βασιλίς and βασιλεία; cf. Lob. ad Phryn., p. 225; (on the termination, corresponding to the English -ess, cf. Winers Grammar, 24; Buttmann, 73; Sophocles Lexicon, p. 37; Sturz, De dial. Maced. et Alex., p. 151ff; Curtius, p. 653).)

βασίλισσα basilissa 4x a queen, Mat_12:42 ; Luk_11:31 ; Act_8:27 ; Rev_18:7

βασίλισσα , -ης , ἡ (in Attic , βασιλεια , βασιλίς ), [in LXX chiefly for H4436 ;] a queen: Mat_12:42 , Luk_11:31 , Act_8:27 , Rev_18:7 .†

βασίλισσα [page 105] This characteristic Κοινή form was borrowed by Attic from B.C. 307 down : see Meisterhans Gr. p. 101, and cf. Thumb Dial. p. 380. The suffix was probably of Macedonian origin, and therefore not Greek at all (Brugmann-Thumb Gr. p. 214, where references are given to literature on the subject : add Glaser, De ratione , p. 18). It was the regular term for the wife of the ruling sovereign : see, e.g. P Petr I. 19 .28 (B.C. 225) βασιλέα Πτολεμαῖον . . . καὶ βασίλισσαν Βερενίκην , P Eleph 23 .10 (B.C. 223) ὁ̣̓μ̣ν̣υ̣ω̣ βασιλέα Πτολεμαῖον . . . καὶ βασίλισσαν Βερενίκην , P Par 38 .1 (B.C. 160) βασιλεῖ Πτολεμαίῳ καὶ βασιλίσσῃ [Κλεο ]πάτρᾳ τῇ ἀδελφῇ , and P Grenf II. 15 i. 1 (B.C. 139). In Syll we find it in 183 .8 (end of iv/B.C.) of the wife of Demetrius Poliorcetes, and in five inscrr. of iii/B.C. In OGIS 35 .1 (B.C. 285 47) βασίλισσαν Φιλωτέραν , the title is given to the unmarried sister of King Ptolemy II, a proof, according to Wilcken ( Archiv ii. p. 541), that amongst the Ptolemies the title was from the beginning purely titular. A similar inscription from Schedia (east of Alexandria), belonging to the reign of Ptolemy III., has the further interest that it contains the earliest known reference to a Jewish proseucha in Upper Egypt ὑ ]πὲρ βασιλέως Πτολεμαίου καὶ βασιλίσσης Βερενίκης ἀδελφῆς καὶ γυναικὸς καὶ τῶν τέκνων τὴν προσευχὴν οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι : see Archiv ii. p. 541 with Wilcken s note. It should be noted, however, that προσευχήν here may simply = prayer, answering to the heathen τὸ προσκύνημα .

βασίλισσα, -ης, ἡ (in Attic, βασιλεία, βασιλίς), [in LXX chiefly for מַלְכָּה ;] a queen: Mat.12:42, Luk.11:31, Act.8:27, Rev.18:7.† (AS)