This is applied, as now, to one reigning in her own right, as the queen of Sheba (2 Chron. 9:1-12): and Candace, queen of the Ethiopians (Acts 8:27). The title was also given to the consort of a reigning sovereign, as queen Esther; and to the queen-mother, who often had great influence at court, as Bathsheba and Jezebel.