Dictionaries :: Nobleman

Easton's Bible Dictionary

Nobleman:

(Gr. basilikos, i.e., "king's man"), an officer of state (Jhn 4:49) in the service of Herod Antipas. He is supposed to have been the Chuza, Herod's steward, whose wife was one of those women who "ministered unto the Lord of their substance" (Luk 8:3). This officer came to Jesus at Cana and besought him to go down to Capernaum and heal his son, who lay there at the point of death. Our Lord sent him away with the joyful assurance that his son was alive.

Nave's Topical Bible

Nobleman: General Scriptures Concerning

Jhn 4:46-53

Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words

Nobleman:

an adjective, "royal, belonging to a king" (basileus), is used of the command, "thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," "the royal law," Jam 2:8; this may mean a law which covers or governs other laws and therefore has a specially regal character (as Hort suggests), or because it is made by a King (a meaning which Deissmann assigns) with whom there is no respect of persons; it is used with the pronoun tis, "a certain one," in Jhn 4:46, 49, of a courtier, one in the service of a king, "a nobleman" (some mss. have the noun basilikos, "a petty king," in these two verses). It is used of a country in Act 12:20, "the king's (country)," and of royal apparel in Act 12:21.
See KING, ROYAL.

Note: For eugenes in Luk 19:12, see NOBLE, No. 1.