πρεσβύτης
presbýtēs · G4246 · Greek · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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old man
An adult male advanced in years
ExamplesLuke 1:18 Zechariah said to the angel, “How will I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in her years.”
Titus 2:2 Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled, sound in faith, in love, in perseverance.
Philemon 1:9 yet for love’s sake I rather appeal to you—since I am such a person as Paul, an old man, and now also a prisoner of Christ Jesus—
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ΠαῦλοςPaul 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- νηφάλεοςsober 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐγώI, we 1
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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In the other Testament 2 words
- זָקֵן zâqên · H2205 · old, elder
- Greek πρεσβύτης specifically denotes an elderly male individual, while Hebrew זָקֵן encompasses both the age descriptor (old man/woman) and the sociopolitical office of elder, making it the broader Hebrew term that includes the Greek concept as one of its core senses.
- זָקֵן zâqên · H2204 · to be old, to become old
- Hebrew זָקֵן and Greek πρεσβύτης both denote an elderly man, and πρεσβύτης functions as a direct Septuagint translation equivalent of זָקֵן.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Old man9.31
- The noun names an old man. Luke's account of Zechariah's response to the angel uses this term: “Zechariah said to the angel, “How will I know this? For I am an old man, and my wife is advanced in her years.”” (Luke 1:18).
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon πρεσβύτου, ὁ (πρέσβυς (see πρεσβεύω)), an old man, an aged man: Lk 1:18; Tit 2:2; Phm 1:9…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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