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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

  • αὐτοὶ δὲ ἀγαθύνοντεσ καρδίαν αὐτῶν καὶ ἰδοὺ ἄνδρεσ τῆσ πόλεωσ υἱοὶ παρανόμων ἐκύκλωσαν τὴν οἰκίαν κρούοντεσ ἐπὶ τὴν θύραν. καὶ εἶπον πρὸσ τὸν ἄνδρα τὸν κύριον τοῦ οἴκου τὸν πρεσβύτην λέγοντεσ. ἐξένεγκε τὸν ἄνδρα, ὃσ εἰσῆλθεν εἰσ τὴν οἰκίαν σου, ἵνα γνῶμεν αὐτόν. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 19:22)
  • καὶ συμπεσεῖται ὁ λαόσ, ἄνθρωποσ πρὸσ ἄνθρωπον καὶ ἄνθρωποσ πρὸσ τὸν πλησίον αὐτοῦ. πρσκόψει τὸ παιδίον πρὸσ τὸν πρεσβύτην, ὁ ἄτιμοσ πρὸσ τὸν ἔντιμον. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 3:5)
  • καὶ ἀφεῖλε Κύριοσ ἀπὸ Ἰσραὴλ κεφαλὴν καὶ οὐράν, μέγαν καὶ μικρὸν ἐν μιᾷ ἡμέρᾳ, πρεσβύτην καὶ τοὺσ τὰ πρόσωπα θαυμάζοντασ καὶ προφήτην διδάσκοντα ἄνομα . (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 9:14)
  • ἐπήγαγε γὰρ ἐπ̓ αὐτοὺσ ἔθνοσ μακρόθεν, ἔθνοσ ἀναιδὲσ καὶ ἀλλόγλωσσον, οἳ οὐκ ᾐσχύνθησαν πρεσβύτην οὐδὲ παιδίον ἠλέησαν (Septuagint, Liber Baruch 4:15)
  • , ἕνα μὲν τιναβραχύν, πρεσβύτην, ὑπόπαχυν, προγάστορα, ῥινόσιμον, ὦτα μεγάλα ὄρθια ἔχοντα, ὑπότρομον, νάρθηκι ἐπερειδόμενον, ἐπ’ ὄνου τὰ πολλὰ ἱππεύοντα, ἐν κροκωτῷ καὶ τοῦτον, πάνυ πιθανόν τινα συνταγματάρχην αὐτοῦ· (Lucian, (no name) 2:3)

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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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