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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

  • καὶ ἐκλείπων ἀπέθανεν Ἁβραὰμ ἐν γήρᾳ καλῷ πρεσβύτησ καὶ πλήρησ ἡμερῶν καὶ προσετέθη πρὸσ τὸν λαὸν αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 25:8)
  • ἠρώτησε δὲ αὐτούσ, πῶσ ἔχετε̣ καὶ εἶπεν αὐτοῖσ. εἰ ὑγιαίνει ὁ πατὴρ ὑμῶν ὁ πρεσβύτησ, ὃν εἴπατὲ̣ρ̀ν̀ρ̀ν̀ρ̀ν̀ρ̀νἔτι ζῇ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 43:26)
  • καὶ εἶπε. μὴ ἐγκαταλίπῃσ ἡμᾶσ, οὗ ἕνεκεν ἦσθα μεθ’ ἡμῶν ἐν τῇ ἐρήμῳ, καὶ ἔσῃ ἐν ἡμῖν πρεσβύτησ. (Septuagint, Liber Numeri 10:31)
  • καὶ ἰδοὺ ἀνὴρ πρεσβύτησ ἤρχετο ἐξ ἔργων αὐτοῦ ἐξ ἀγροῦ ἐν ἑσπέρᾳ. καὶ ὁ ἀνὴρ ἦν ἐξ ὄρουσ Ἐφραίμ, καὶ αὐτὸσ παρῴκει ἐν Γαβαά, καὶ οἱ ἄνδρεσ τοῦ τόπου υἱοὶ Βενιαμίν. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 19:16)
  • καὶ ᾖρε τοὺσ ὀφθαλμοὺσ αὐτοῦ καὶ εἶδε τὸν ὁδοιπόρον ἄνδρα ἐν τῇ πλατείᾳ τῆσ πόλεωσ. καὶ εἶπεν ὁ ἀνὴρ ὁ πρεσβύτησ. ποῦ πορεύῃ καὶ πόθεν ἔρχῃ̣ (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 19:17)

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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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