Strong's #4245: presbuteros (pronounced pres-boo'-ter-os)
comparative of presbus (elderly); older; as noun, a senior; specially, an Israelite Sanhedrist (also figuratively, member of the celestial council) or Christian "presbyter":-- elder(-est), old.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon:
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presbuteros
1) elder, of age
1a) the elder of two people
1b) advanced in life, an elder, a senior
1b1) forefathers
2) a term of rank or office
2a) among the Jews
2a1) members of the great council or Sanhedrin (because in early times the rulers of the people, judges, etc., were selected from elderly men)
2a2) of those who in separate cities managed public affairs and administered justice
2b) among the Christians, those who presided over the assemblies (or churches) The NT uses the term bishop, elders, and presbyters interchangeably
2c) the twenty four members of the heavenly Sanhedrin or court seated on thrones around the throne of God
Part of Speech: adjective
Relation: comparative of presbus (elderly)
Citing in TDNT: 6:651, 931
Usage:
This word is used 69 times:
Titus 1:5: "thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as"
Hebrews 11:2: "by it the elders obtained a good report."
James 5:14: "among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and"
1 Peter 5:1: " The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness"
1 Peter 5:5: "Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another,"
2 John 1:1: "The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom"
3 John 1:1: "The elder unto the well-beloved Gaius, whom I love"
Revelation 4:4: "upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders"
Revelation 4:10: "The four and twenty elders fall down before him that sat"
Revelation 5:5: "one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not:"
Revelation 5:6: "in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain,"
Revelation 5:8: "beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the"
Revelation 5:11: "beasts and the elders: and the number of them"
Revelation 5:14: "And the four and twenty elders fell down and worshipped"
Revelation 7:11: "throne, and about the elders and the four beasts,"
Revelation 7:13: "one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What"
Revelation 11:16: "And the four and twenty elders, which sat before"
Revelation 14:3: "beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn"
Revelation 19:4: "And the four and twenty elders and the"
