πρεσβυτέριον
presbytery
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Nominative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Nominative, Singular, Neuter 2 times (67%)
- Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G4244 appears — 3 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Luke 1 verse
Acts 1 verse
1 Timothy 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
πρεσβυτεριον (presbytérion) is a Greek noun most often rendered “presbytery.” It is rare — just 3 verses in the entire Greek New Testament. It concentrates in Luke, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. Scripture first uses it in Luke 22:66. It clusters with πρεσβυτερος, πρεσβευω and πρεσβυτης under a shared root. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G4244 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 2 verses · 67%
- Gospels 1 verse · 33%
- Pauline corpus 1 verse · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Elders 1×, Estate of the elders 1×, Presbytery 1×
- American Standard Version: Assembly of the elders 1×, Estate of the elders 1×, Presbytery 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Council 1×, Council of the elders 1×, Elders 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Council of elders 1×, Elderhood 1×, Elders 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G4244 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G4244 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G4244 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G4244 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- body of elders, presbytery, senate, council
Word origin
Derived from πρεσβυτερος (presbýteros) (G4245) — elder.
Neuter of a presumed derivative of G4245 ; the order of elders that is (specifically) Israelite Sanhedrim or Christian presbytery : - (estate of) elder (-s) presbytery.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G4244 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| πρεσβυτέριον presbytérion | Noun, Nominative, Singular, Neuter | Luke 22:66 | 2 |
| πρεσβυτερίου presbyteríou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | 1 Timothy 4:14 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G4244, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
