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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

  • ἐγέλασε δὲ Σάρρα ἐν ἑαυτῇ, λέγουσα. οὔπω μέν μοι γέγονεν ἕωσ τοῦ νῦν, ὁ δὲ κύριόσ μου πρεσβύτεροσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 18:12)
  • εἶπε δὲ ἡ πρεσβυτέρα πρὸσ τὴν νεωτέραν. ὁ πατὴρ ἡμῶν πρεσβύτεροσ, καὶ οὐδείσ ἐστιν ἐπὶ τῆσ γῆσ, ὃσ εἰσελεύσεται πρὸσ ἡμᾶσ, ὡσ καθήκει πάσῃ τῇ γῇ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 19:31)
  • ΚΑΙ Ἁβραὰμ ἦν πρεσβύτεροσ προβεβηκὼσ ἡμερῶν, καὶ ὁ Κύριοσ ηὐλόγησε τὸν Ἁβραὰμ κατὰ πάντα. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 24:1)
  • καὶ ἐκλείπων Ἰσαὰκ ἀπέθανε καὶ προσετέθη πρὸσ τὸ γένοσ αὐτοῦ πρεσβύτεροσ καὶ πλήρησ ἡμερῶν, καὶ ἔθαψαν αὐτὸν Ἡσαῦ καὶ Ἰακὼβ οἱ υἱοὶ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 35:29)
  • καὶ εἴπαμεν τῷ κυρίῳ. ἔστιν ἡμῖν πατὴρ πρεσβύτεροσ καὶ παιδίον γήρουσ νεώτερον αὐτῷ, καὶ ὁ ἀδελφὸσ αὐτοῦ ἀπέθανεν, αὐτὸσ δὲ μόνοσ ὑπελείφθη τῇ μητρὶ αὐτοῦ, ὁ δὲ πατὴρ αὐτὸν ἠγάπησεν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 44:20)

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