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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, (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.)
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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.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:8 - And Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, an old man and full of days; and he was gathered to his people.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 10:31 - Then he said, “Please do not leave us, inasmuch as you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will be as eyes for us.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:50 - a nation of fierce countenance who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:25 -

‘Outside the sword will bereave,

And inside terror

Both choice man and virgin,

The nursing baby with the man of gray hair.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:21 - And they devoted to destruction everything in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:16 -

But behold, an old man was coming from his work, from the field, at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was sojourning in Gibeah, but the men of the place were Benjamites.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:17 - And he lifted up his eyes and saw the traveler in the open square of the city; and the old man said, “Where are you going, and where do you come from?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:20 - Then the old man said, “Peace be to you. Only let me take care of all that you lack; however, do not spend the night in the open square.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:22 -

They were making their hearts merry, and behold, the men of the city, certain [fn]vile fellows, surrounded the house, pounding the door; and they spoke to the owner of the house, the old man, saying, “Bring out the man who came into your house that we may [fn]know him.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:22 -

Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and how they lay with the women who served at the doorway of the tent of meeting.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:32 - ‘And you will look upon the distress of My habitation, in spite of all the good that [fn]I do for Israel; and an old man will not be in your house all the days.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:21 - And Yahweh appeared again at Shiloh, because Yahweh revealed Himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:18 - And it happened that when he mentioned the ark of God, [fn]Eli fell off the seat backward beside the gate, and his neck was broken, and he died, for the man was old and heavy. Thus he judged Israel forty years.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:15 -

So Bathsheba went in to the king in the bedroom. Now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering to the king.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:11 -

Now an old prophet was living in Bethel; and his [fn]sons came and recounted to him all the work which the man of God had done that day in Bethel; the words which he had spoken to the king, these also they recounted to their father.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:25 - And behold, men passed by and saw the body thrown on the road, and the lion standing beside the body; so they came and spoke about it in the city where the old prophet lived.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:14 - So he said, “What then is to be done for her?” And Gehazi [fn]answered, “Truly she has no son, and her husband is old.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:1 -

Now David became old and full of days, and he made his son Solomon king over Israel.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:10 -

“Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us,

Older than your father.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:8 -

The young men saw me and hid,

And the old men arose and stood.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 148:12 -

Both choice men as well as virgins;

The old with the young.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:5 -

And the people will be oppressed,

Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor;

The youth will overwhelm the elder

And the dishonorable against the honorable.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:15 -

The head is the elder and the [fn]highly respected man,

And the prophet who teaches falsehood is the tail.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 20:4 - so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot with buttocks uncovered, to the [fn]shame of Egypt.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:20 -

“No longer will there be [fn]in it an infant who lives but a few days,

Or an old man who does not fulfill his days;

For the youth will die at the age of one hundred,

And the [fn]one who does not reach the age of one hundred

Will be thought accursed.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:13 -

“Then the virgin will be glad in the dance,

And the young men and the old, together,

For I will turn their mourning into joy

And will comfort them and give them gladness for their sorrow.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:21 -

Shin

On the ground in the streets

Lie young and old;

My virgins and my young men

Have fallen by the sword.

You have killed them in the day of Your anger;

You have slaughtered, not sparing.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:16 -

Pe

The presence of Yahweh has eradicated them;

He will not continue to look at them;

They did not [fn]honor the priests;

They did not favor the elders.

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:14 -

Elders have ceased from being at the gate,

Young men from their music.

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