Greek noun (feminine) · G4242
πρεσβεία
presbeiapres-bi'-ah
age, seniority.; rank, dignity.; an embassy
2 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: presbeía
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4242is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
- 3meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4242
seniority (eldership), i.e. (by implication) an embassy (concretely, ambassadors)
The King James renders it: ambassage, message.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
presbeia is rendered "age, seniority.; rank, dignity.; an embassy". It stands 2 times in the Greek text, across one book.
- Two of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists three meanings for it, beginning with "age, seniority.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 14:32And if he is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still far off, to ask for terms of peace.
The first use
And if he is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still far off, to ask for terms of peace.
Luke 14:32πρεσβείαν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's two uses are in Luke.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word three senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: age, seniority., and rank, dignity., and an embassy.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| age, seniority. | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 14:32And if he is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still far off… |
| rank, dignity. | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
| an embassyby meton., of the ambassadors, embassy | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 14:32And if he is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still far off… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πρεσβύτερος | presbyteros | elder: old | Uses65 |
| πρεσβύτης | presbytes | old man | Uses3 |
| πρεσβυτέριον | presbyterion | council of elders | Uses3 |
| πρεσβεύω | presbeuo | be ambassador | Uses2 |
| πρεσβῦτις | presbytis | old woman | Uses1 |
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- πρεσβείαν2
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · feminine singular2N-ASF
Luke
two uses
And if he is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still far off, to ask for terms of peace.
- πρεσβείανpresbeiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: an embassy
But his subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do not want this man to rule over us.’
- πρεσβείανpresbeiannoun · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: a delegation
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.