noun · feminine
presbutias
Strong’sG4247
an old woman
stem presbuti-once 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.
** πρεσβῦτις, -ιδος, ἡ, fem, of πρεσβύτης,
[in LXX: IV Mac 16:14*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4247 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidpres-boo'-tis
an old woman
Fromfeminine of G4246;
King Jamesaged woman.
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 | presbutias | presbutiais |
| object accusative | presbutian | presbutiain1×Πρεσβύτιδας |
| direct address vocative | presbutiar | presbutiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | presbutiau | presbutiaiu |
| to, for dative | presbutia | presbutiai |
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
presbutia 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
presbutiain“older women”objectaccusative plural1×
Titus 2:3Presbutiain hōsautōs en katastēme hieroprepain, mē diabolain …Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in …