Bible word study

Basileia (Strong’s G932): Meaning in the Bible

Basileia (βασιλεία) is the Greek word numbered G932 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, royalty, i.e. (abstractly) rule, or (concretely) a realm (literally or figuratively). In the King James Bible it is translated kingdom, + reign..

• Original wordβασιλεία
• Transliterationbasileía
• Pronunciationbas-il-i'-ah
• Strong’s numberG932
• LanguageGreek

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from G935;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Basileia appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Basileia (G932) stands behind 164 English renderings in 154 verses across 17 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Matthew (56), Luke (47), Mark (21).

How the King James Bible renders Basileia, by count

• the kingdom77 of 164 (47 percent)
• kingdom69 of 164 (42 percent)
• of the kingdom8 of 164 (5 percent)
• kingdoms4 of 164 (2 percent)
• a kingdom3 of 164 (2 percent)
• of2 of 164 (1 percent)

Three places to read Basileia

• Matthew 3:2 And saying, Repent ye: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
• Matthew 25:1 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps, and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
• Luke 18:17 Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Basileia in the original Greek lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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