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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

  • ἔθνοσ ἀναιδὲσ προσώπῳ, ὅστισ οὐ θαυμάσει πρόσωπον πρεσβύτου καὶ νέον οὐκ ἐλεήσει, (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 28:50)
  • ἔξωθεν ἀτεκνώσει αὐτοὺσ μάχαιρα καὶ ἐκ τῶν ταμιείων φόβοσ. νεανίσκοσ σὺν παρθένῳ, θηλάζων μετὰ καθεστηκότοσ πρεσβύτου. (Septuagint, Liber Deuteronomii 32:25)
  • καὶ ἀνεθεμάτισεν αὐτὴν Ἰησοῦσ καὶ ὅσα ἦν ἐν τῇ πόλει ἀπὸ ἀνδρὸσ καὶ ἕωσ γυναικόσ, ἀπὸ νεανίσκου καὶ ἕωσ πρεσβύτου καὶ ἕωσ μόσχου καὶ ὑποζυγίου, ἐν στόματι ρομφαίασ. (Septuagint, Liber Iosue 6:21)
  • οὗτοι ἀπέκτειναν τοὺσ νεανίσκουσ αὐτῶν ἐν ρομφαίᾳ περικύκλῳ τοῦ ἁγίου αὐτῶν ἱεροῦ καὶ οὐκ ἐφείσαντο νεανίσκου καὶ παρθένου καὶ πρεσβύτου καὶ νεωτέρου, ἀλλὰ πάντασ παρέδωκαν εἰσ τὰσ χεῖρασ αὐτῶν. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 1:50)
  • καταδυναστεύσωμεν πένητα δίκαιον, μὴ φεισώμεθα χήρασ, μηδὲ πρεσβύτου ἐντραπῶμεν πολιὰσ πολυχρονίουσ. (Septuagint, Liber Sapientiae 2:10)

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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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