Presbeía — G4242

Definition

feminine noun

seniority (eldership), i.e. (by implication) an embassy (concretely, ambassadors)

1. age, dignity, right of the first born
2. the business usually to be entrusted to elders, specifically, the office of an ambassador, an embassy (Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato)

Usually translated as

message, ambassage

Origin

from G4243

• presbeúō (G4243)

Occurrences

Presbeía occurs 1 time in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Luke (1)

• Luke 19:14 — But his citizens hated him, and sent a message (πρεσβείαν) after him, saying, We will not have this man to reign over us.