βασιλεία
kingdom
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
5 verses where G932 appears in the Accusative case in the Book of Acts. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts
- Acts 1:6 βασιλείαν n acc sg fem Therefore, when they had come together, they asked him, "Lord, are you now restoring the kingdom to Israel?"
- Acts 14:22 βασιλείαν n acc sg fem confirming the souls of the disciples, exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that through many afflictions we must enter into the Kingdom of God.
- Acts 20:25 βασιλείαν n acc sg fem Now, behold, I know that you all, among whom I went about preaching the Kingdom of God, will see my face no more.
- Acts 28:23 βασιλείαν n acc sg fem When they had appointed him a day, many people came to him at his lodging. He explained to them, testifying about the Kingdom of God, and persuading them concerning Jesus, both from the law of Moses and from the prophets, from morning until evening.
- Acts 28:31 βασιλείαν n acc sg fem preaching the Kingdom of God, and teaching the things concerning the Lord Jesus Christ with all boldness, without hinderance.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
βασιλεια (basileía) is a Greek noun most often rendered “kingdom.” It first appears in Matthew 3:2. It turns up in 154 verses across 17 books, a common footprint. It concentrates in Matthew, which alone accounts for 34% of its uses. Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G932 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 154
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 154 distinct verses.
- 17 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 17 of 27 New Testament books.
- #98
- by frequency
- Top 100 most frequent Greek words (rank 98 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 154 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 154 distinct verses.
- Gospels 118 verses · 77%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 52 verses · 34%
- Pauline corpus 14 verses · 9%
- Johannine 12 verses · 8%
- Revelation 9 verses · 6%
- Hebrews 3 verses · 2%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 1%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Kingdom 154×, Kingdoms 4×
- American Standard Version: Kingdom 143×, Kingdoms 3×, Of 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Kingdom 154×, Kingdoms 3×, Kingship 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Kingdom 158×, Kingdoms 3×, Of 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G932 across 161 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G932 across 163 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G932 across 160 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G932 across 167 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- royal power, kingship, dominion, rule
- a kingdom, the territory subject to the rule of a king
- used in the N.T. to refer to the reign of the Messiah
Word origin
Derived from βασιλευς (basileús) (G935) — king.
From G935 ; properly royalty that is (abstractly) rule or (concretely) a realm (literally or figuratively): - kingdom + reign.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G932 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| βασιλείαν basileían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 5:20 | 60 |
| βασιλεία basileía | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 3:2 | 55 |
| βασιλείας basileías | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 4:23 | 25 |
| βασιλείᾳ basileía | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Matthew 5:19 | 22 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G932, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word βασιλεια appears 274 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 246 verses in 23 books.
- 274
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 246
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 23 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 23 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 10:10 βασιλεία
- Numbers 21:18 βασιλεία
- Deuteronomy 3:4 βασιλεία
- Joshua 11:10 βασιλεία
- 1 Samuel 10:16 βασιλεία
- 2 Samuel 3:10 βασιλεία
- 1 Kings 1:46 βασιλεία
- 2 Kings 11:1 βασιλεία
- 1 Chronicles 4:23 βασιλεία
- 2 Chronicles 1:1 βασιλεία
- Ezra 1:1 βασιλεία
- Esther 1:4 βασιλεία
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G932) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 246. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 10:10 βασιλεία The beginning of his kingdom was Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar.
- Genesis 14:1 βασιλεία It happened in the days of Amraphel, king of Shinar, Arioch, king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim,
- Genesis 20:9 βασιλεία Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said to him, "What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought on me and on my kingdom a great sin? You have done deeds to me that ought not to be done!"
- Numbers 21:18 βασιλεία The well, which the princes dug, Which the nobles of the people dug, With the scepter, [and] with their poles. From the wilderness [they traveled] to Mattanah;
- Numbers 24:7 βασιλεία Water shall flow from his buckets, His seed shall be in many waters, His king shall be higher than Agag, His kingdom shall be exalted.
- Numbers 32:33 βασιλεία Moses gave to them, even to the children of Gad, and to the children of Reuben, and to the half-tribe of Manasseh the son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land, according to the cities of it with [their] borders, even the cities of the land round about.
- Deuteronomy 3:4 βασιλεία We took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we didn't take from them; sixty cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
- Deuteronomy 3:10 βασιλεία all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, to Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.
- Deuteronomy 3:13 βασιλεία and the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, gave I to the half-tribe of Manasseh; all the region of Argob, even all Bashan. (The same is called the land of Rephaim.
- Deuteronomy 3:21 βασιλεία I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Your eyes have seen all that Yahweh your God has done to these two kings: so shall Yahweh do to all the kingdoms where you go over.
- Deuteronomy 28:25 βασιλεία Yahweh will cause you to be struck before your enemies; you shall go out one way against them, and shall flee seven ways before them: and you shall be tossed back and forth among all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Joshua 11:10 βασιλεία Joshua turned back at that time, and took Hazor, and struck the king of it with the sword: for Hazor before was the head of all those kingdoms.
- Joshua 13:12 βασιλεία all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (the same was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); for these did Moses strike, and drove them out.
- Joshua 13:21 βασιλεία and all the cities of the plain, and all the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorites, who reigned in Heshbon, whom Moses struck with the chiefs of Midian, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, the princes of Sihon, who lived in the land.
- Joshua 13:27 βασιλεία and in the valley, Beth Haram, and Beth Nimrah, and Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and the border [of it], to the uttermost part of the sea of Chinnereth beyond the Jordan eastward.
- Joshua 13:30 βασιλεία Their border was from Mahanaim, all Bashan, all the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, and all the towns of Jair, which are in Bashan, sixty cities:
- Joshua 13:31 βασιλεία and half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, the cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even for the half of the children of Machir according to their families.
- 1 Samuel 10:16 βασιλεία Saul said to his uncle, He told us plainly that the donkeys were found. But concerning the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel spoke, he didn't tell him.
- 1 Samuel 10:18 βασιλεία and he said to the children of Israel, Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all the kingdoms that oppressed you:
- 1 Samuel 11:14 βασιλεία Then said Samuel to the people, Come, and let us go to Gilgal, and renew the kingdom there.
- 1 Samuel 13:13 βασιλεία Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly; you have not kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you: for now would Yahweh have established your kingdom on Israel forever.
- 1 Samuel 13:14 βασιλεία But now your kingdom shall not continue: Yahweh has sought him a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh commanded you.
- 1 Samuel 15:28 βασιλεία Samuel said to him, Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better than you.
- 1 Samuel 20:31 βασιλεία For as long as the son of Jesse lives on the earth, you shall not be established, nor your kingdom. Therefore now send and bring him to me, for he shall surely die.
- 1 Samuel 24:21 βασιλεία Swear now therefore to me by Yahweh, that you will not cut off my seed after me, and that you will not destroy my name out of my father's house.
- 1 Samuel 28:17 βασιλεία Yahweh has done to you, as he spoke by me: and Yahweh has torn the kingdom out of your hand, and given it to your neighbor, even to David.
- 2 Samuel 3:10 βασιλεία to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beersheba.
- 2 Samuel 3:28 βασιλεία Afterward, when David heard it, he said, I and my kingdom are guiltless before Yahweh forever of the blood of Abner the son of Ner:
- 2 Samuel 5:12 βασιλεία David perceived that Yahweh had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel's sake.
- 2 Samuel 7:12 βασιλεία When your days are fulfilled, and you shall sleep with your fathers, I will set up your seed after you, who shall proceed out of your bowels, and I will establish his kingdom.
- 2 Samuel 7:16 βασιλεία Your house and your kingdom shall be made sure for ever before you: your throne shall be established forever.
- 2 Samuel 12:26 βασιλεία Now Joab fought against Rabbah of the children of Ammon, and took the royal city.
- 2 Samuel 16:3 βασιλεία The king said, Where is your master's son? Ziba said to the king, Behold, he abides at Jerusalem; for he said, Today will the house of Israel restore me the kingdom of my father.
- 2 Samuel 16:8 βασιλεία Yahweh has returned on you all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned; and Yahweh has delivered the kingdom into the hand of Absalom your son; and, behold, you are [taken] in your own mischief, because you are a man of blood.
- 2 Samuel 19:10 βασιλεία Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why don't you speak a word of bringing the king back?
- 1 Kings 1:46 βασιλεία Also Solomon sits on the throne of the kingdom.
- 1 Kings 2:12 βασιλεία Solomon sat on the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.
- 1 Kings 2:15 βασιλεία He said, You know that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: however the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother's; for it was his from Yahweh.
- 1 Kings 2:22 βασιλεία King Solomon answered his mother, Why do you ask Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? ask for him the kingdom also; for he is my elder brother; even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab the son of Zeruiah.
- 1 Kings 2:35 βασιλεία The king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his room over the host; and Zadok the priest did the king put in the room of Abiathar.
- 1 Kings 2:46 βασιλεία So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; and he went out, and fell on him, so that he died. The kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.
- 1 Kings 9:5 βασιλεία then I will establish the throne of your kingdom over Israel forever, according as I promised to David your father, saying, There shall not fail you a man on the throne of Israel.
- 1 Kings 10:20 βασιλεία Twelve lions stood there on the one side and on the other on the six steps: there was nothing like it made in any kingdom.
- 1 Kings 11:11 βασιλεία Therefore Yahweh said to Solomon, Because this is done of you, and you have not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded you, I will surely tear the kingdom from you, and will give it to your servant.
- 1 Kings 11:13 βασιλεία However I will not tear away all the kingdom; but I will give one tribe to your son, for David my servant's sake, and for Jerusalem's sake which I have chosen.
- 1 Kings 11:14 βασιλεία Yahweh raised up an adversary to Solomon, Hadad the Edomite: he was of the king's seed in Edom.
- 1 Kings 11:31 βασιλεία He said to Jeroboam, Take ten pieces; for thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Behold, I will tear the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to you
- 1 Kings 11:34 βασιλεία However I will not take the whole kingdom out of his hand; but I will make him prince all the days of his life, for David my servant's sake whom I chose, who kept my commandments and my statutes;
- 1 Kings 11:35 βασιλεία but I will take the kingdom out of his son's hand, and will give it to you, even ten tribes.
- 1 Kings 12:21 βασιλεία When Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand chosen men, who were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G932) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
