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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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All rights reserved. Used by permission. BibleSoft.com

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 Box Gen 25:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:8 - Abraham breathed his last and died in a [fn]ripe old age, an old man and satisfied with life; and he was gathered to his people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 10:31

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:50

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:50 - a nation of fierce countenance who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 32:25

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 32:25 - ‘Outside the sword will bereave,
And inside terror—
Both young man and virgin,
The nursling with the man of gray hair.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:21 - They [fn]utterly destroyed everything in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox and sheep and donkey, with the edge of the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:16 - Then behold, an old man was coming out of the field from his work at evening. Now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim, and he was [fn]staying in Gibeah, but the men of the place were Benjamites.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:17

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?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:20 - The old man said, “Peace to you. Only let me take care of all your needs; however, do not spend the night in the open square.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 19:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 19:22 - While they were [fn]celebrating, behold, the men of the city, certain [fn]worthless 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 have [fn]relations with him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:22

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 2:32

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:32 - ‘You will see the distress of My dwelling, in spite of all the good that [fn]I do for Israel; and an old man will not be in your house forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 3:21

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 3:21 - And the LORD appeared again at Shiloh, because the LORD revealed Himself to Samuel at Shiloh by the word of the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 4:18

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:18 - 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 [fn]he was old and heavy. Thus he judged Israel forty years.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 1:15

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.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:11 - Now an old prophet was living in Bethel; and his [fn]sons came and told him all the deeds which the man of God had done that day in Bethel; the words which he had spoken to the king, these also they related to their father.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:25

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 told it in the city where the old prophet lived.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:14

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.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 23:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:1 - Now when David [fn]reached old age, he made his son Solomon king over Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 15:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 15:10 - “Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us,
Older than your father.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:8 - The young men saw me and hid themselves,
And the old men arose and stood.

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 148:12

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 3:5

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 3:5 - And the people will be oppressed,
Each one by another, and each one by his neighbor;
The youth will storm against the elder
And the inferior against the honorable.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 9:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:15 - The head is the elder and honorable man,
And the prophet who teaches falsehood is the tail.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 20:4

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 65:20

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 [fn]live out 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.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 31:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:13 - “Then the virgin will 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 give them joy for their sorrow.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 2:21

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 2:21 - On the ground in the streets
Lie young and old;
My virgins and my young men
Have fallen by the sword.
You have slain them in the day of Your anger,
You have slaughtered, not sparing.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 4:16 - The presence of the LORD has scattered them,
He will not continue to regard them;
They did not [fn]honor the priests,
They did not favor the elders.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 5:14 - Elders [fn]are gone from the gate,
Young men from their music.
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