ΣΥΜΠΡΕΣΒΕΙΣ, συμπρεσβεις
SYMPRESBEIS, sympresbeis
Sounds Like: soom-PRES-bees
Translations: fellow ambassador, fellow envoy, fellow delegate
From the root: ΠΡΕΣΒΥΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This is a compound word formed from 'σύν' (syn), meaning 'with' or 'together,' and 'πρέσβυς' (presbys), meaning 'an elder' or 'an ambassador.' Therefore, 'συμπρεσβείς' refers to individuals who serve as ambassadors or envoys alongside others, implying a shared mission or delegation. It describes someone who is a colleague in an embassy or a diplomatic mission.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s numbers: G4862 (Lookup on BibleHub), G4243 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Life of Flavius Josephus, The
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΡΕΣΒΥΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΠΡΕΣΒΕΙΣ — ambassadors, envoys, an ambassador, an envoy
- ΠΡΕΣΒΕΙΣΟΥΣ — ambassadors, envoys, delegates, elders
- ΠΡΕΣΒΕΣΙ — (to) elders, (to) ambassadors, (to) envoys
- ΠΡΕΣΒΕΣΙΝ — to ambassadors, to envoys, to elders, to old men
- ΠΡΕΣΒΕΩΝ — (of) old men, (of) elders, (of) ambassadors
- ΠΡΕΣΒΙΣΤΟΝ — oldest, most venerable, most important, most senior
- ΠΡΕΣΒΥ — old, elder, an elder, an old man, an ambassador
- ΠΡΕΣΒΥΣ — old man, an old man, elder, an elder, ambassador, an ambassador, envoy, an envoy, aged, old
- ΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΑ — elder, old man, ambassador, envoy, older, aged
- ΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΑΤΗ — oldest, most ancient, eldest, a most ancient, a most old
- ΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΑΤΗΝ — oldest, most ancient, most venerable, most senior
- ΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΑΤΟΙ — oldest, most ancient, most venerable, most senior
- ΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΑΤΟΙΣ — oldest, most ancient, most venerable, to the oldest, to the most ancient, to the most venerable
- ΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΑΤΟΝ — oldest, eldest, most senior, the oldest, the eldest, the most senior
- ΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΑΤΟΣ — oldest, eldest, most ancient, a most ancient
- ΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΑΤΟΥ — of the oldest, of the eldest, of the most ancient
- ΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΑΤΟΥΣ — oldest, most ancient, most senior, most venerable
- ΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΑΤΩ — oldest, most ancient, most venerable, most senior, to the oldest, to the most ancient, to the most venerable, to the most senior
- ΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΑΤΩΝ — of the oldest, of the most ancient, of the most senior
- ΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΕ — elder, old man, ambassador, representative, aged, senior
- ΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΙΣ — old woman, an old woman
- ΠΡΕΣΒΥΤΟΣ — old, an old man, elder, an elder, aged, an aged man, ambassador, an ambassador, envoy, an envoy
This concordance database is in beta
That means it's an unfinished preview of what we're building and is still being refined and corrected. It was initially generated from Google Gemini 2.5. It will be edited and corrected over time, with additional information added as we go.
It is your responsibility to double-check anything important.
Please report any errors or important missing information.