βασιλεύς, -έως, ὁ,
[in LXX chiefly for מֶלֶךְ;]
a king: Mt 1:62:1; used by courtesy of Herod the Tetrarch, Mt 14:9; of the Roman Emperor, as freq. in κοινή (Deiss., LAE, p. 367), I Pe 2:13, 17; of the Christ, in the phrase ὁ β. τ. Ἰουδαίων, Mt 2:2, al.; τοῦ Ἰσραήλ, Mk 15:32, Jo 1:5012:13; of God, Mt 5:35, I Ti 1:17, Re 15:3; β. βασιλέων, Re 17:1419:16; β. τ. βασιλευόντων, I Ti 6:15 (on the associations of the word to Jewish Hellenists, v. Cl. Rev., i, 7).†