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Lexicon :: Strong's G4245 - presbyteros

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πρεσβύτερος
Transliteration
presbyteros (Key)
Pronunciation
pres-boo'-ter-os
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Part of Speech
adjective
Root Word (Etymology)
Comparative of presbus (elderly)
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TDNT Reference: 6:651,931

Strong’s Definitions

πρεσβύτερος presbýteros, pres-boo'-ter-os; comparative of πρέσβυς présbys (elderly); older; as noun, a senior; specially, an Israelite Sanhedrist (also figuratively, member of the celestial council) or Christian "presbyter":—elder(-est), old.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 67x

The KJV translates Strong's G4245 in the following manner: elder (64x), old man (1x), eldest (1x), elder woman (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 67x
The KJV translates Strong's G4245 in the following manner: elder (64x), old man (1x), eldest (1x), elder woman (1x).

  1. elder, of age,

    1. the elder of two people

    2. advanced in life, an elder, a senior

      1. forefathers

  2. a term of rank or office

    1. among the Jews

      1. members of the great council or Sanhedrin (because in early times the rulers of the people, judges, etc., were selected from elderly men)

      2. of those who in separate cities managed public affairs and administered justice

    2. among the Christians, those who presided over the assemblies (or churches) The NT uses the term bishop, elders, and presbyters interchangeably

    3. the twenty four members of the heavenly Sanhedrin or court seated on thrones around the throne of God

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πρεσβύτερος presbýteros, pres-boo'-ter-os; comparative of πρέσβυς présbys (elderly); older; as noun, a senior; specially, an Israelite Sanhedrist (also figuratively, member of the celestial council) or Christian "presbyter":—elder(-est), old.
STRONGS G4245:
πρεσβύτερος, πρεσβυτέρα, πρεσβύτερον (comparitive of πρέσβυς) (from Homer down), elder; used:
1. of age;
a. where two persons are spoken of, the elder: ὁ υἱός ὁ πρεσβύτερος (Aelian v. h. 9, 42), Luke 15:25.
b. universally, advanced in life, an elder, a senior: opposed to νεανίσκοι, Acts 2:17; opposed to νεώτερος, 1 Timothy 5:1f (Genesis 18:11f; Wis. 8:10; Sir. 6:34 (33); Sir. 7:14; 2 Macc. 8:30). οἱ πρεσβύτεροι (A. V. the elders), forefathers, Hebrews 11:2; παράδοσις (which see) τῶν πρεσβυτέρων, received from the fathers, Matthew 15:2; Mark 7:3, 5.
2. a term of rank or office; as such borne by,
a. among the Jews,
α. members of the great council or Sanhedrin (because in early times the rulers of the people, judges, etc., were selected from the elderly men): Matthew 16:21; Matthew 26:47, 57, 59 Rec.; Matt. 27:3,12,20,41; 28:12; Mark 8:31; Mark 11:27; Mark 14:43, 53; Mark 15:1; Luke 9:22; Luke 20:1; Luke 22:52; John 8:9; Acts 4:5, 23; Acts 6:12; Acts 23:14; Acts 24:1; with the addition of τοῦ Ἰσραήλ, Acts 4:8 R G; of τῶν Ἰουδαίων, Acts 25:15; of τοῦ λαοῦ, Matthew 21:23; Matthew 26:3; Matthew 27:1.
β. those who in the separate cities managed public affairs and administered justice: Luke 7:3. (Cf. BB. DD., under the word.)
b. among Christians, those who presided over the assemblies (or churches): Acts 11:30; Acts 14:23; Acts 15:2, 4, 6, 22; Acts 16:4; Acts 21:18; 1 Timothy 5:17, 19; Titus 1:5; 2 John 1:1; 3 John 1:1; 1 Peter 5:1, 5 [T WH om.]; with τῆς ἐκκλησίας added, Acts 20:17; James 5:14. That they did not differ at all from the (ἐπίσκοποι) bishops or overseers (as is acknowledged also by Jerome on Titus 1:5 (cf. Lightfoot's Commentary on Philippians, pp. 98f, 229f)) is evident from the fact that the two words are used indiscriminately, Acts 20:17, 28; Titus 1:5, 7, and that the duty of presbyters is described by the terms ἐπισκοπεῖν, 1 Peter 5:1f, and ἐπισκοπή, Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 44, 1 [ET]; accordingly only two ecclesiastical officers, οἱ ἐπίσκοποι and οἱ διάκονοι, are distinguished in Philippians 1:1; 1 Timothy 3:1, 8. The title ἐπίσκοπος denotes the function, πρεσβύτερος the dignity; the former was borrowed from Greek institutions, the latter from the Jewish; cf. (Lightfoot, as above, pp. 95ff, 191ff); Ritschl, Die Entstehung der altkathol. Kirche, edition 2, p. 350ff; Hase, Protest. Polemik, edition 4, p. 98ff; (Hatch, Bampton Lects. for 1880, Lect. 3 and Harnack's Analecten appended to the German translation of the same (p. 229ff); also Harnack's note on Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 1, 3 [ET] (cf. references at 44 at the beginning), and Hatch in Dict. of Christ. Antiq., under the word. Cf. ἐπίσκοπος.).
c. the twenty-four members of the heavenly Sanhedrin or court, seated on thrones around the throne of God: Revelation 4:4, 10; Revelation 5:5, 6, 8, 11, 14; Revelation 7:11, 13; Revelation 11:16; Revelation 14:3; Revelation 19:4.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
18:11
Matthew
15:2; 16:21; 21:23; 26:3; 26:47; 26:57; 26:59; 27:1; 27:3; 27:12; 27:20; 27:41; 28:12
Mark
7:3; 7:5; 8:31; 11:27; 14:43; 14:53; 15:1
Luke
7:3; 9:22; 15:25; 20:1; 22:52
John
8:9
Acts
2:17; 4:5; 4:8; 4:23; 6:12; 11:30; 14:23; 15:2; 15:4; 15:6; 15:22; 16:4; 20:17; 20:17; 20:28; 21:18; 23:14; 24:1; 25:15
1 Corinthians
1; 1:3
Philippians
1:1
1 Timothy
3:1; 3:8; 5:1; 5:17; 5:19
Titus
1:5; 1:5; 1:5; 1:7
Hebrews
11:2
James
5:14
1 Peter
5:1; 5:1; 5:5
2 John
1:1
3 John
1:1
Revelation
4:4; 4:10; 5:5; 5:6; 5:8; 5:11; 5:14; 7:11; 7:13; 11:16; 14:3; 19:4

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4245 matches the Greek πρεσβύτερος (presbyteros),
which occurs 67 times in 67 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 15:2 - "Why do your talmidim disobey the tradition of the Zakenim? For they don't wash their hands when they eat bread."

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 16:21 - From that time, Yeshua began to show his talmidim that he must go to Yerushalayim and suffer many things from the Zakenim, chief Kohanim, and Sofrim, and be killed, and the third day be raised up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 21:23 - When he had come into the temple, the chief Kohanim and the Zakenim of the people came to him as he was teaching, and said, "By what authority do you do these things? Who gave you this authority?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:3 - Then the chief Kohanim, the Sofrim, and the Zakenim of the people were gathered together in the court of the Kohen Gadol, who was called Kayafa.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:47 - While he was still speaking, behold, Yehudah, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief Kohen and Zakenim of the people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:57 - Those who had taken Yeshua led him away to Kayafa the Kohen Gadol, where the Sofrim and the Zakenim were gathered together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 26:59

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 26:59 - Now the chief Kohanim, the Zakenim, and the whole council sought false testimony against Yeshua, that they might put him to death;

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:1 - Now when morning had come, all the chief Kohanim and the Zakenim of the people took counsel against Yeshua to put him to death:

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:3 - Then Yehudah, who betrayed him, when he saw that Yeshua was condemned, felt remorse, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief Kohanim and Zakenim,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:12 - When he was accused by the chief Kohanim and Zakenim, he answered nothing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 27:20

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:20 - Now the chief Kohanim and the Zakenim persuaded the multitudes to ask for Bar-Abba, and destroy Yeshua.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 27:41 - Likewise the chief Kohanim also mocking, with the Sofrim, the Perushim, and the Zakenim, said,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMat 28:12 - When they were assembled with the Zakenim, and had taken counsel, they gave a large amount of silver to the soldiers,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:3 - (For the Perushim, and all the Yehudim, don't eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the Zakenim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 7:5 - The Perushim and the Sofrim asked him, "Why don't your talmidim walk according to the tradition of the Zakenim, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 8:31 - He began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the Zakenim, the chief Kohanim, and the Sofrim, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 11:27 - They came again to Yerushalayim, and as he was walking in the temple, the chief Kohanim, and the Sofrim, and the Zakenim came to him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:43 - Immediately, while he was still speaking, Yehudah, one of the twelve, came -- and with him a multitude with swords and clubs, from the chief Kohanim, the Sofrim, and the Zakenim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:53 - They led Yeshua away to the Kohen Gadol. All the chief Kohanim, the Zakenim, and the Sofrim came together with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMar 15:1 - Immediately in the morning the chief Kohanim, with the Zakenim and Sofrim, and the whole council, held a consultation, and bound Yeshua, and carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 7:3 - When he heard about Yeshua, he sent to him Zakenim of the Yehudim, asking him to come and save his servant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 9:22 - saying, "The Son of Man must suffer many things, and be rejected by the Zakenim, chief Kohanim, and Sofrim, and be killed, and the third day be raised up."

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 15:25 - "Now his elder son was in the field. As he came near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 20:1 - It happened on one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, that the Kohanim and Sofrim came to him with the Zakenim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 22:52 - Yeshua said to the chief Kohanim, captains of the temple, and Zakenim, who had come against him, "Have you come out as against a robber, with swords and clubs?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 8:9 - They, when they heard it, being convicted by their conscience, went out one by one, beginning from the oldest, even to the last. Yeshua was left alone with the woman where she was, in the middle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:5 - It happened in the morning, that their rulers, Zakenim, and Sofrim were gathered together in Yerushalayim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:8 - Then Rock, filled with the Ruach HaKodesh, said to them, "You rulers of the people, and Zakenim of Yisra'el,

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 4:23 - Being let go, they came to their own company, and reported all that the chief Kohanim and the Zakenim had said to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 6:12 - They stirred up the people, the Zakenim, and the Sofrim, and came against him and seized him, and brought him in to the council,

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 11:30

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:30 - which they also did, sending it to the Zakenim by the hands of Bar-Nabba and Sha'ul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 14:23 - When they had appointed Zakenim for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they had believed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:2 - Therefore when Sha'ul and Bar-Nabba had no small discord and discussion with them, they appointed Sha'ul and Bar-Nabba, and some others of them, to go up to Yerushalayim to the apostles and Zakenim about this question.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:4 - When they had come to Yerushalayim, they were received by the assembly and the apostles and the Zakenim, and they reported all things that God had done with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:6 - The apostles and the Zakenim were gathered together to see about this matter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:22 - Then it seemed good to the apostles and the Zakenim, with the whole assembly, to choose men out of their company, and send them to Antioch with Sha'ul and Bar-Nabba: Yehudah called Bar-Sabba, and Sila, chief men among the brothers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 15:23 - They wrote these things by their hand: "The apostles, the Zakenim, and the brothers, to the brothers who are of the Goyim in Antioch, Aram, and Cilicia: greetings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 16:4 - As they went on their way through the cities, they delivered the decrees to them to keep which had been ordained by the apostles and Zakenim who were at Yerushalayim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:17 - From Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to himself the Zakenim of the assembly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 21:18 - The day following, Sha'ul went in with us to Ya`akov; and all the Zakenim were present.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 23:14 - They came to the chief Kohanim and the Zakenim, and said, "We have bound ourselves under a great curse, to taste nothing until we have killed Sha'ul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 24:1 - After five days, the Kohen Gadol, Hananyah, came down with certain Zakenim and an orator, one Tertullus. They informed the governor against Sha'ul.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAct 25:15 - about whom, when I was at Yerushalayim, the chief Kohanim and the Zakenim of the Yehudim informed me, asking for a sentence against him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:1 - Don't rebuke an older man, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brothers;

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:2 - the elder women as mothers; the younger as sisters, in all purity.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:17 - Let the Zakenim who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:19 - Don't receive an accusation against an elder, except at the word of two or three witnesses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxTit 1:5 - I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking, and appoint Zakenim in every city, as I directed you;

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Unchecked Copy BoxHeb 11:2 - For by this, the Zakenim obtained testimony.

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