Strong's Greek #4242 - πρεσβεία, ας, ἡ presbeia (age)

Original Word:	πρεσβεία, ας, ἡ
Transliteration:	presbeia
Definition:	age, seniority
Part of Speech:	Noun, Feminine
Phonetic Spelling:	(pres-bi'-ah)
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

an ambassador

From presbeuo; seniority (eldership), i.e. (by implication) an embassy (concretely, ambassadors) -- ambassage, message.

see GREEK presbeuo

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

Strong's 4242: πρεσβεία

πρεσβεία, 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.

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Greek: 4242. πρεσβεία (presbeia) — 2 Occurrences

Luke 14:32 - N-AFS
GRK: πόρρω ὄντος πρεσβείαν ἀποστείλας ἐρωτᾷ
NAS: he sends a delegation and asks
KJV: he sendeth an ambassage, and desireth
INT: far off being an embassy having sent he asks

Luke 19:14 - N-AFS
GRK: καὶ ἀπέστειλαν πρεσβείαν ὀπίσω αὐτοῦ
NAS: him and sent a delegation after
KJV: and sent a message after him,
INT: and sent a delegation after him

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