πρεσβύτερος presbuteros

Greek word for “elder” · Strong’s G4245 · used 66 times in 66 verses

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Meaning

πρέσβυς, -εως, ὁ poët.

Senses in the lexicon

• elder: Elder (60)
• elder: old (6)

How it is translated

Glosses given for presbuteros in context, with how often each is used:

• elders 56
• elder 5
• elders? 1
• your elders 1
• elder ones 1
• elder women 1
• ancients 1

Where it is used

Also in 1 more book.

Chapters where it is used most

Matthew 27 (5), Acts 15 (5), Revelation 5 (5), 1 Timothy 5 (4), Matthew 26 (3), Acts 4 (3), Mark 7 (2), Mark 14 (2), 1 Peter 5 (2), Revelation 4 (2)

Forms

• πρεσβυτέρων 22
• πρεσβύτεροι 21
• πρεσβυτέρους 11
• πρεσβυτέροις 5
• πρεσβύτερος 3
• πρεσβυτέρου 1
• Πρεσβυτέρους 1
• Πρεσβυτέρῳ 1
• πρεσβυτέρας 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with presbuteros more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• ἀρχιερεύς archiereus “high-priest” 22
• γραμματεύς grammateus “scribe” 13
• τέσσαρες tessares “four” 9
• ζῷον zōon “living thing” 7
• θρόνος thronos “throne” 8
• εἴκοσι eikosi “twenty” 5
• μετά meta “with/after” 10
• λαός laos “a people” 7
• ἀπόστολος apostolos “apostle” 6
• πίπτω piptō “to collapse” 6
• Ἰούδας Ioudas “Judas” 5
• κατά kata “according to” 9

Key verses

The verses using presbuteros that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 16:21 — From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and…
• Matthew 26:3 — Then assembled together the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders of the people, unto the palace of the high priest, who was called Caiaphas,
• Matthew 27:1 — When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:
• Acts 2:17 — And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your…
• Acts 14:23 — And when they had ordained them elders in every church, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord, on whom they believed.
• 1 Timothy 5:17 — Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.
• 1 Peter 5:1 — The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be…
• 1 Peter 5:5 — Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud,…
• Revelation 4:10 — The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne,…
• Revelation 5:6 — And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns…
• Revelation 5:8 — And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of…
• Revelation 5:11 — And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the number of them was ten thousand times ten…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.