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πρεσβεία

presbeía · G4242 · Greek · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. representative, ambassador

    A person who has been given authority to communicate or to act on behalf of a ruler

    Examples

    Luke 14:32 “Otherwise, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and requests terms of peace.

    Luke 19:14 “But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’

How it’s used In 1 role

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Representative, ambassador37.87
The noun names a delegation or embassy sent as representatives. Luke's parable of the king going to war uses this term: ““Otherwise, while the other is still far away, he sends a delegation and requests terms of peace.” (Luke 14:32).
Word family 7 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

πρεσβύτερος presbýteros · G4245 · older, of ancient times · 66×πρεσβυτέριον presbytérion · G4244 · high council of the Jews, group of elders, elders · 3×πρεσβύτης presbýtēs · G4246 · old man · 3×πρεσβείαpresbeía · G4242πρεσβεύω presbeúō · G4243 · to be a representative of, to be an ambassador of · 2×πρεσβῦτις presbŷtis · G4247 · old woman · 1×συμπρεσβύτερος sympresbýteros · G4850 · fellow elder · 1×
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πρεσβειας, ἡ (πρεσβεύω); 1. age, dignity, right of the first born: Aeschylus Pers. 4;…
πρεσβειας, ἡ (πρεσβεύω);
1. age, dignity, right of the first born: Aeschylus Pers. 4; Plato, de rep. 6, p. 509 b.; Pausanias, 3, 1, 4; 3, 3, 8.
2. the business usually to be entrusted to elders, specifically, the office of an ambassador, an embassy (Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato); abstract for the concrete, an ambassage, i. e. ambassadors, Lk 14:32; Lk 19:14.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Rule, Govern2 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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