Lexical Summary presbeia: age, seniority Original Word: πρεσβείαTransliteration: presbeia Phonetic Spelling: (pres-bi'-ah) Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Short Definition: age, seniority Meaning: age, seniority Strong's Concordance an ambassadorFrom presbeuo; seniority (eldership), i.e. (by implication) an embassy (concretely, ambassadors) -- ambassage, message. see GREEK presbeuo Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 4242: πρεσβείαπρεσβεία, πρεσβειας, ἡ (πρεσβεύω); 1. age, dignity, right of the first born: Aeschylus Pers. 4; Plato, de rep. 6, p. 509 b.; Pausanias, 3, 1, 4; 3, 3, 8. 2. the business usually to be entrusted to elders, specifically, the office of an ambassador, an embassy (Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato); abstract for the concrete, an ambassage, i. e. ambassadors, Luke 14:32; Luke 19:14. |
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