noun · feminine
presbeias
Strong’sG4242
an embassy, delegation
stem presbei-2 times in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** πρεσβεία, -ας, ἡ
(< πρεσβεύω), [in LXX: II Mac 4:11*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4242 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpres-bi'-ah
seniority (eldership), i.e. (by implication) an embassy (concretely, ambassadors)
Fromfrom G4243;
King Jamesambassage, message.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
age, seniority, right of the elder, κατὰ πρεσβείαν Refs 4th c.BC+
2 rank, dignity, πρεσβείᾳ καὶ δυνάμει ὑπερέχειν Refs 5th c.BC+
II embassy, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.2 body of ambassadors, Refs 5th c.BC+
III intercession, Refs 3rd c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | presbeias | presbeiais |
| object accusative | presbeian2×πρεσβείαν | presbeiain |
| direct address vocative | presbeiar | presbeiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | presbeiau | presbeiaiu |
| to, for dative | presbeia | presbeiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
presbeia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
presbeian“delegation”objectaccusative singular2×
Luke 14:32… de mēge, ēti autou porrō arōntou presbeian apostelarantos erōtatō teim pros eirēnan.… is unable, he will send a delegation while the other king is still …
Luke 19:14… politois autou misale auton, kai apostelala presbeian opisō autou legarōntois; Ouk thelanō houton …… subjects hated him and sent a delegation after him to say, ‘We do …