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πρεσβύτερος

First/Second declension Adjective; Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρεσβύτερος

Structure: πρεσβυτερ (Stem) + ος (Ending)

Sense

  1. older of two people
  2. advanced in life, senior
  3. a term of rank or office, a member of the Jewish Sanhedrin
  4. in the New Testament, a group that presided over the assemblies or congregations

Declension

First/Second declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • ΕΓΕΝΕΤΟ δὲ μετὰ τὸ γηράσαι τὸν Ἰσαὰκ καὶ ἠμβλύνθησαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοὶ αὐτοῦ τοῦ ὁρᾶν, καὶ ἐκάλεσεν Ἡσαῦ τὸν υἱὸν αὐτοῦ τὸν πρεσβύτερον καί εἶπεν αὐτῷ. υἱέ μου. καὶ εἶπεν. ἰδοὺ ἐγώ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 27:1)
  • Ἀγαθὸσ παῖσ πένησ καὶ σοφὸσ ὑπὲρ βασιλέα πρεσβύτερον καὶ ἄφρονα, ὃσ οὐκ ἔγνω τοῦ προσέχειν ἔτι. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 4:13)
  • γίγαντα καὶ ἰσχύοντα καὶ ἄνθρωπον πολεμιστὴν καὶ δικαστὴν καὶ προφήτην καὶ στοχαστὴν καὶ πρεσβύτερον (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 3:2)
  • πρεσβύτερον καὶ νεανίσκον καὶ παρθένον καὶ νήπια καὶ γυναῖκασ ἀποκτείνατε εἰσ ἐξάλειψιν, ἐπὶ δὲ πάντασ, ἐφ̓ οὕσ ἐστι τὸ σημεῖον, μὴ ἐγγίσητε. καὶ ἀπὸ τῶν ἁγίων μου ἄρξασθε. καὶ ἤρξαντο ἀπὸ τῶν ἀνδρῶν τῶν πρεσβυτέρων, οἳ ἦσαν ἔσω ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 9:6)
  • οὐδ’ ἄν τισ ἔχοι κατ’ αὐτὸ τοῦτο μέμψασθαί με τὸ μέροσ, ὅτι τὸν ἐπιφανέστατον τῶν φιλοσόφων κ αὶ πλείοσιν ἢ δώδεκα γενεαῖσ ἐμαυτοῦ πρεσβύτερον ἐξετάζειν ἐπεβαλόμην ὡσ δὴ διὰ τοῦτο δόξησ τινὸσ τευξόμενοσ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Epistula ad Pompeium Geminum, chapter 1 15:2)

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