noun · masculine
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);]
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
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.
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 | presbutos2×πρεσβύτης | presbutois |
| object accusative | presbuton | presbutoin1×πρεσβύτας |
| direct address vocative | presbutor | presbutoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | presbutou | presbutoiu |
| to, for dative | presbuto | presbutoi |
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
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 …