πρέσβυς
old man, elder, envoy
Where this word appears
Every passage where πρέσβυς appears in the Greek Septuagint — 10 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Numbers 21:21 πρέσβυς We will pass through your land, we will go by the road; we will not turn aside to the field or to the vineyard.
- Numbers 22:5 πρέσβυς And he sent ambassadors to Balaam the son of Beor, to Phathura, which is on a river of the land of the sons of his people, to call him, saying, Behold, a people is come out of Egypt, and behold it has covered the face of the earth, and it has encamped close to me.
- Deuteronomy 2:26 πρέσβυς And I sent ambassadors from the wilderness of Kedamoth to Seon king of Esebon with peaceful words, saying,
- Psalms 67:32 πρέσβυς Sing to God, you⌃ kingdoms of the earth; sing psalms to the Lord. Pause.
- Isaiah 13:8 πρέσβυς The elders shall be troubled, and pangs shall seize them, as of a woman in travail: and they shall mourn one to another, and shall be amazed, and shall change their countenance as a flame.
- Isaiah 21:2 πρέσβυς so a fearful and a grievous vision was declared to me: he that is treacherous deals treacherously, the transgressor transgresses. The Elamites are upon me, and the ambassadors of the Persians come against me: now will I groan and comfort myself.
- Isaiah 37:6 πρέσβυς And Esaias said to them, Thus shall you⌃ say to your master, Thus says the Lord, Be not you afraid at the words which you have heard, wherewith the ambassadors of the king of the Assyrians have reproached me,
- Isaiah 39:1 πρέσβυς At that time Marodach Baladan, the son of Baladan, the king of Babylonia, sent letters and ambassadors and gifts to Ezekias: for he had heard that he had been sick even to death, and was recovered.
- Isaiah 57:9 πρέσβυς and you have multiplied your whoredom with them, and you have increased the number of them that are far from you, and have sent ambassadors beyond your borders, and have been debased even to hell.
- Isaiah 63:9 πρέσβυς out of all their affliction: not an ambassador, nor a messenger, but himself saved them, because he loved them and spared them: he himself redeemed them, and took them up, and lifted them up all the days of old.
About this word
About this word
πρέσβυς (présbys), “old man, elder, envoy,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 10 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →