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Lexicon :: Strong's G4246 - presbytēs

Aa
πρεσβύτης
Transliteration
presbytēs (Key)
Pronunciation
pres-boo'-tace
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Dictionary Aids

Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:683,931

Trench's Synonyms: cvii. Additional Synonyms

Strong’s Definitions

πρεσβύτης presbýtēs, pres-boo'-tace; from the same as G4245; an old man:—aged (man), old man.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x

The KJV translates Strong's G4246 in the following manner: old man (1x), aged man (1x), aged (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 3x
The KJV translates Strong's G4246 in the following manner: old man (1x), aged man (1x), aged (1x).

  1. an old man, an aged man

  2. ambassador

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πρεσβύτης presbýtēs, pres-boo'-tace; from the same as G4245; an old man:—aged (man), old man.
STRONGS G4246:
πρεσβύτης, πρεσβύτου, ὁ (πρέσβυς (see πρεσβεύω)), an old man, an aged man: Luke 1:18; Titus 2:2; Philemon 1:9 (here many (cf. R. V. marginal reading) regard the word as a substitute for πρεσβευτής, ambassador; see Lightfoots Commentary at the passage; WH's Appendix, at the passage; and add to the examples of the interchange πρεσβευτεροις in Wood, Discoveries at Ephesus, Appendix, Inscriptions from the Great Theatre, p. 24 (col. 5, 50:72)). (Aeschyl, Euripides, Xenophon, Plato, others; the Sept. for זָקֵן.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Luke
1:18
Titus
2:2
Philemon
1:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4246 matches the Greek πρεσβύτης (presbytēs),
which occurs 29 times in 29 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:8 - And Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:31 - And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be to us instead of eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:50

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:50 - a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:25 -
Without shall the sword bereave,
And in the chambers terror;
It shall destroy both young man and virgin,
The suckling with the man of gray hairs.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:21 - And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:16 - And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even: now the man was of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he sojourned in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:17 - And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:20 - And the old man said, Peace be unto thee; howsoever let all thy wants lie upon me; only lodge not in the street.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:22 - As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, beset the house round about, beating at the door; and they spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thy house, that we may know him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:22 - Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did unto all Israel, and how that they lay with the women that did service at the door of the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:32 - And thou shalt behold the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel; and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:21 - And Jehovah appeared again in Shiloh; for Jehovah revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of Jehovah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:18 - And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:15 - And Bath-sheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering unto the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:11 - Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth-el; and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Beth-el: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them also they told unto their father.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:25 - And, behold, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:14

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:14 - And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no son, and her husband is old.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:1 - Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:10 -
With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men,
Much elder than thy father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:8 -
The young men saw me and hid themselves,
And the aged rose up and stood;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:12 -
Both young men and virgins;
Old men and children:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:5 - And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:15 - The elder and the honorable man, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4 - so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:20 - There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days; for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:13 - Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:21 -
The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets;
My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword:
Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast slaughtered, and not pitied.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:16 -
The anger of Jehovah hath scattered them; he will no more regard them:
They respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:14 -
The elders have ceased from the gate,
The young men from their music.
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