The word Elder

Publishing Committee · Rochester, N. Y. · Jan 9, 1855

is translated from three words, presbuterion, presbuteros and sumpresbuteros. They occur as follows:

PRESBUTERION.

Luke xxii, 66. the elders of the people and Acts xxii, 5. and all the estate of the elders: 1 Tim. iv, 14. of the hands of the presbytery.

PRESBUTEROS.

Matt. xv, 2. the tradition of the elders? xvi, 21. suffer many things of the elders xxi, 23. and the elders of the people xxvi, 3. and the elders of the people,

and elders of the people,
and the elders were assembled.
the chief priest, and elders,

xxvii, 1. and the elders of the people

to the chief priests and elders,
accused of the chief priests and elders,
the chief priests and elders persuaded
with the scribes and elders

Matt. xxviii, 12. were assembled with the elders. Mark vii, 3. holding the tradition of the elders, 5. according to the tradition of the elders, viii, 31. and be rejected of the elders, xi, 27. and the scribes and the elders. xiv, 43. priests and the scribes and the elders. 53. and the elders and the scribes. xv, 1. with the elders and scribes Luke vii, 3. he sent unto him the elders of the Jews, ix, 22. and be rejected of the elders xv, 25. Now his elder son was in the field: xx, 1. came upon him with the elders, xxii, 52. and captains of the temple, and the elders John viii, 9. beginning at the eldest, [plural] Acts ii, 17. and your old men shall dream dreams: iv, 5. that their rulers, and elders,

Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,
and elders had said unto them

vi, 12. and the elders, and the scribes, xi, 30. and sent it to the elders by xiv, 23. ordained them elders in every church, xv, 2. unto the apostles and elders about this

and of the apostles and elders,
And the apostles and elders,
pleased it the apostles and elders,
The apostles and elders and brethren

xvi, 4. that were ordained of the apostles and elders xx, 17. and called the elders of the church. xxi, 18. and all the elders were present. xxiii, 14. the chief priests and elders, xxiv, 1. high priest descended with the elders, xxv, 15. the chief priests and the elders of the Jews. 1 Tim. v, 1. Rebuke not an elder but intreat

The elder women as mothers;
Let the elders that rule well
Against an elder receive not

Titus i, 5. ordain elders in every city, Heb. xi, 2. For by it the elders obtained a good James v, 14. let him call for the elders of the 1 Peter v, 1. The elders which are among you 5. submit yourselves unto the elder, [plural] 2 John 1. The elder unto the elect lady. 3 John 1. The elder unto the well beloved Gaius Rev. iv, 4. I saw four and twenty elders sitting, 10. The four and twenty elders. v, 5. And one of the elders saith unto me,

and in the midst of the elders,
four and twenty elders fell down
and the beasts and the elders
the four and twenty elders fell down

vii, 11. and about the elders and the four 13. And one of the elders answered, xi, 16. the four and twenty elders, which sat xiv, 3. before the four beasts, and the elders: xix, 4. the four and twenty elders and the four

SUMPRESBUTEROS.

1 Peter v, 1. who am also an elder, (lit. a co-elder)