noun · neuter
presbuteriem
Strong’sG4244
an assembly of elders
stem presbuteri-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 of 6 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.
**† πρεσβυτέριον, -ου, τό
(< πρεσβύτερος), [in LXX: Da TH Su 50 A*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4244 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpres-boo-ter'-ee-on
the order of elders, i.e. (specially), Israelite Sanhedrin or Christian "presbytery"
Fromneuter of a presumed derivative of G4245;
King James(estate of) elder(-s), presbytery.
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
or πρεσβῠ-εῖον, τό, council of elders, presbytery, NT
II honour or privilege of an elder, LXX+2nd c.AD+
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 or object direct | presbuteriem2×πρεσβυτέριον | presbuterieim |
| of, belonging to genitive | presbuterieu1×πρεσβυτερίου | presbuterieiu |
| to, for dative | presbuterie | presbuteriei |
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
presbuterie 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.
3 occurrences, every one of them listed
presbuteriem“elders”subject or objectdirect singular2×
Luke 22:66Kai hōs geneta hēmeras, sunagita tem presbuteriem tou laou, archierevois tē kai grammatevois, …At daybreak the council of the elders of the people, both the chief …
Acts 22:5“council of elders”… archierevos marturatō mi kai pantem tem presbuteriem; para hoiu kai epistolain decherantos pros …as the high priest and the whole Council can testify about me. I even obtained letters from them to their brothers …
presbuterieu“council of elders”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
1 Timothy 4:14“council of elders”… profēteiau meta epithesiau taiu cheiraiu teu presbuterieu.… through the prophecy spoken over you at the laying on of the hands of the elders.