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noun · masculine

Greekπρεσβύτης (presbutēs)
Biblang

presbutos

Strong’sG4246

an old man

stem presbut-3 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books2 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.

πρεσβύτης, -ου prose form of πρέσβυς, q.v.,

[in LXX chiefly for זָקֵן, Ge 25:8, al.; also (= πρεσβευτής), II Ch 32:31 B1 (מֵלִיץ), I Mac 14:22 S, al. (v. Thackeray, Gr., 97);]

1. an old man: Lk 1:18, Tit 2:2, Phm 9 (R, txt., but v. infr.).
2. As in LXX, also = πρεσβευτής, an ambassador: Phm 9 (R, mg., v. Lft. and ICC, in l.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G4246 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidpres-boo'-tace

an old man

Fromfrom the same as G4245;

King Jamesaged (man), old man.

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
πρεσβύτης [ῠ], ητος,
Doric dialect -ας, ατος, ἡ, age, seniority, Refs probably restoration in Refs

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.

old man2×older men1×

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 caseone singularmore than one plural
subject nominativepresbutos2×πρεσβύτηςpresbutois
object accusativepresbutonpresbutoin1×πρεσβύτας
direct address vocativepresbutorpresbutoir
of, belonging to genitivepresbutoupresbutoiu
to, for dativepresbutopresbutoi

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
presbutstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

presbuto 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

presbutos“old man”subjectnominative singular2×

Luke 1:18… tinem gnōskemi houtem? mis gar amō presbutos kai tas gunaikas mu probainarēntas en …… asked the angel. “I am an old man, and my wife is well along …

Philemon 1:9“old man”… mallon parakalamō, toioutos arōntos hōs Paulos presbutos nuni de kai desmios Christou Iēsu… prefer to appeal on the basis of love. For I, Paul, am now aged, and a prisoner of Christ Jesus as well.

presbutoin“older men”objectaccusative plural1×

Titus 2:2presbutoin nēfalioin arō, semnoin, sōfronoin, hugiainarōntoin ta …Older men are to be temperate, dignified, self-controlled …