πρεσβυτέρῳ (presbytero)

πρεσβυτέρῳ is an Ancient Greek form of πρέσβυς, meaning “old; elder, ambassador”. It is the dative singular masculine adjective.

Found 61 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Lycurgus 2.3: … οῦ Λυκούργου βασιλεύοντα συνέβη τελευτῆσαι. διερύκων γάρ ἁψιμαχίαν τινά, μαγειρικῇ κοπίδι πληγεὶς ἀπέθανε, τῷ πρεσβυτέρῳ παιδὶ Πολυδέκτῃ καταλιπὼν τὴν βασιλείαν.

New Testament, 1 Timothy 5.1: Πρεσβυτέρῳ μὴ ἐπιπλήξῃς, ἀλλὰ παρακάλει ὡς πατέρα, νεωτέρους ὡς ἀδελφούς,

All forms of πρέσβυς (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.