Greek noun (masculine) · G4246
πρεσβύτης
presbytespres-boo'-tace
an old man; As in LXX, also = πρεσβευτής, an ambassador
3 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: presbýtēs
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4246is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 2spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G4246
an old man
The King James renders it: aged (man), old man.
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
presbytes is rendered "an old man; As in LXX, also = πρεσβευτής, an ambassador". It stands 3 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "an old man".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Luke 1:18“How can I be sure of this?” Zechariah asked the angel. “I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
“How can I be sure of this?” Zechariah asked the angel. “I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years.”
Luke 1:18πρεσβύτης
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: an old man, and As in LXX, also = πρεσβευτής, an ambassador.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| an old manLuk.1:18, Tit.2:2, Phm 9 (R, txt., but see infr.). | Tagged as
| WhereLuke 1:18“How can I be sure of this?” Zechariah asked the angel. “I am an old man… |
| As in LXX, also = πρεσβευτής, an ambassadorPhm 9 (R, mg., see Lft. and ICC, in l).† (AS) | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
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 |
| πρεσβυτέριον | presbyterion | council of elders | 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
- πρεσβύτης2
- Πρεσβύτας1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2N-NSM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural1N-APM
Luke
one use
“How can I be sure of this?” Zechariah asked the angel. “I am an old man, and my wife is well along in years.”
- πρεσβύτηςpresbutesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: an old man
Titus
one use
Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, and sound in faith, love, and perseverance.
- Πρεσβύταςpresbutasnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: aged
Philemon
one use
I prefer to appeal on the basis of love. For I, Paul, am now aged, and a prisoner of Christ Jesus as well.
- πρεσβύτηςpresbutesnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: aged
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.