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Lexicon :: Strong's G4246 - presbytēs

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πρεσβύτης
Transliteration
presbytēs (Key)
Pronunciation
pres-boo'-tace
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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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 Abraam failing died in a good old age, an old man and full of days, and was added to his people.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:31 - And he said, Leave us not, because thou hast been with us in the wilderness, and thou shalt be an elder among us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:50

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:50 - a nation bold in countenance, which shall not [fn]respect the person of the aged and shall not pity the young.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:25 - Without, the sword shall bereave them of children, and terror shall issue out of the secret chambers; the young man shall perish with the virgin, the suckling with him who has grown old.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:21 - and Joshua devoted it to destruction, and all things that were in the city, man and woman, young man and old, and calf and ass, with the [fn]edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:16 - And behold, an old man came out of the field from his work in the evening; and the man was of mount Ephraim, and he sojourned in Gabaa, and the men of the place were sons of Benjamin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:17 - And he lifted up his eyes, and saw a traveller in the street of the city; and the old man said to him, 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 to thee; only be every want of thine upon me, only do thou by no means lodge in the street.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:22 - And they were comforting their heart, when, behold, the men of the city, sons of transgressors, compassed the house, knocking at the door: and they spoke to the old man the owner of the house, saying, Bring out the man who came into thy house, that we may know him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:22 - And Heli was very old, and he heard what his sons did to the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:32 - And thou shalt not have an old man in my house for ever.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:21 - And the Lord manifested himself again in Selom, for the Lord revealed himself to Samuel; and Samuel was accredited to all Israel as a prophet to the Lord from one end of the land to the other: and Heli was very old, and his sons kept advancing in wickedness, and their way was evil before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:18 - And it came to pass, when he mentioned the ark of God, that he fell from the seat backward near the gate, and his back was broken, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy: and he judged Israel twenty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:15 - So Bersabee went in to the king into the chamber: and the king was very old, and Abisag the Somanite was ministering to the king.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:11 - And there dwelt an old prophet in Bæthel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God did on that day in Bæthel, and the words which he spoke to the king: and [fn]they turned the face of their father.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:25 - And, behold, men were passing by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion was standing near the carcase: and they went in and spoke of 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 to Giezi, What must we do for her? and Giezi his servant said, Indeed she has no son, and her husband is old.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:1

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:10 - Truly among us are both the old and very aged man, more advanced in days 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 all the old men stood up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:12 - young men and virgins, old men with youths:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:5 - And the people shall fall, man upon man, and every man upon his neighbour: the child shall insult the elder man, and the base the honourable.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:15 - (LXX 9:14) the old man, and them that respect persons, this is the head; and the prophet teaching unlawful things, he is the tail.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4 - for thus shall the king of the Assyrians lead the captivity of Egypt and the Ethiopians, young men and old, naked and barefoot, having the shame of Egypt exposed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:20 - Neither shall there be there any more a child that dies untimely, or an old man who shall not complete his time: for the youth shall be a hundred years old, and the sinner who dies at a hundred years shall also be accursed:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:13 - (LXX 38:13) Then shall the virgins rejoice in the assembly of youth, and the old men shall rejoice; and I will turn their mourning into joy, and will make them merry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:21 - Chsen. The child and old man have lain down in the street: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity: thou hast slain them with the sword and with famine; in the day of thy wrath thou hast mangled them, thou hast not spared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:16 - Ain. The presence of the Lord was their portion; but he will not again look upon them: they regarded not the person of the priests, they pitied not the prophets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:14 - And the elders ceased from the gate, the chosen men ceased from their music.
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