Greek noun (neuter) · G4244
πρεσβυτέριον
presbyterionpres-boo-ter'-ee-on
council of elders
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: presbytérion
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4244is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4244
the order of elders, i.e. (specially), Israelite Sanhedrin or Christian "presbytery"
The King James renders it: (estate of) elder(-s), presbytery.
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
presbyterion is rendered "council of elders". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 22:66At daybreak the council of the elders of the people, both the chief priests and scribes, met together. They led Jesus into their Sanhedrin and said,
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
At daybreak the council of the elders of the people, both the chief priests and scribes, met together. They led Jesus into their Sanhedrin and said,
Luke 22:66πρεσβυτέριον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in Luke.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- elderhood3
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 |
| πρεσβεία | presbeia | delegation | Uses2 |
| πρεσβεύω | presbeuo | be ambassador | Uses2 |
| πρεσβῦτις | presbytis | old woman | Uses1 |
All 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 spellings 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
- πρεσβυτέριον2
- πρεσβυτερίου1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular2N-NSN
- noun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singular1N-GSN
Luke
one use
At daybreak the council of the elders of the people, both the chief priests and scribes, met together. They led Jesus into their Sanhedrin and said,
- πρεσβυτέριονpresbuterionnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: elderhood
Acts
one use
as the high priest and the whole Council can testify about me. I even obtained letters from them to their brothers in Damascus, and I was on my way to apprehend these people and bring them to Jerusalem to be punished.
- πρεσβυτέριονpresbuterionnoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: elderhood
1 Timothy
one use
Do not neglect the gift that is in you, which was given you through the prophecy spoken over you at the laying on of the hands of the elders.
- πρεσβυτερίουpresbuteriounoun · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: elderhood
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.