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πρεσβύτης

First declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: πρεσβύτης πρεσβύτου

Structure: πρεσβυτ (Stem) + ης (Ending)

Etym.: = pre/sbus I, Aesch., etc.

Sense

Declension

First 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

  • τότε χαρήσονται παρθένοι ἐν συναγωγῇ νεανίσκων, καὶ πρεσβύται χαρήσονται, καὶ στρέψω τὸ πένθοσ αὐτῶν εἰσ χαρμονὴν καὶ ποιήσω αὐτοὺσ εὐφραινομένουσ. (Septuagint, Liber Ieremiae 38:13)
  • καὶ πρεσβύται ἀπὸ πύλησ κατέπαυσαν, ἐκλεκτοὶ ἐκ ψαλμῶν αὐτῶν κατέπαυσαν. (Septuagint, Lamentationes 5:14)
  • Ἔπεμψαν δὲ καὶ οἱ Ρωμαῖοι πρὸσ αὐτοὺσ ἐπιστολὴν ἔχουσαν οὕτωσ. «Κόϊντοσ Μέμμιοσ, Τίτοσ Μάνλιοσ, πρεσβῦται Ρωμαίων, τῷ δήμῳ τῶν Ἰουδαίων χαίρειν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 11:34)
  • ἰδόντεσ με νεανίσκοι ἐκρύβησαν, πρεσβῦται δὲ πάντεσ ἔστησαν. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 29:8)
  • καὶ ἐγένετο ὡσ ἐξήλθοσαν τὰ κοράσια, καὶ ἀνέστησαν οἱ δύο πρεσβῦται καὶ ἐπέδραμον αὐτῇ (Septuagint, Liber Susanna 1:19)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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