What does συμπρεσβύτερος (sympresbýteros) mean in the Bible?
συμπρεσβύτερος (sympresbýteros): Designates an elder sharing office with another, emphasizing collegial leadership structure in early church governance.
Greek · G4850
συμπρεσβύτερος
συμπρεσβύτερος (sympresbýteros): Designates an elder sharing office with another, emphasizing collegial leadership structure in early church governance.
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συμπρεσβύτεροςG4850
Pronunciationsympresbýteros
What does συμπρεσβύτερος (sympresbýteros) mean in the Bible?
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How does the BSB render G4850?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1 aligned row for this entry. Common renderings include a fellow elder (1).
Where does συμπρεσβύτερος (sympresbýteros) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at 1 Peter 5:1. Its strongest book concentrations include 1 Peter (1).
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders Ita fellow elder1×1 Peter 5:1
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First aligned row1 Peter 5:1
Aligned rows1
Books represented1
1 Peter1
Source forms
συμπρεσβύτερος1xsympresbyteros1 Peter 5:1
Parsing patterns
Noun - Nominative Masculine Singular1x1 Peter 5:1
Evidence Summary
Greek word. Designates an elder sharing office with another, emphasizing collegial leadership structure in early church governance.
Strong'sG4850
Lexical occurrences1 verseGreek text appearances1 timeWord forms1 form1 referenceVerse guides0 guides
Source Gloss
a co-presbyter
Extended definitionSource: STEPBible TBESG + Abbott-Smith
Designates an elder sharing office with another, emphasizing collegial leadership structure in early church governance.
a fellow-elder: 1Pe.5:1 (Eccl.).
Greek Text Appearances
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
1 Greek text appearance shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
1 Peter 5:1Noun Nominative Singular Masculine
συμπρεσβύτεροςsumpresbuterov
a fellow elder
Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
Grammatical Forms
How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.
This word appears as a noun across 1 case and number pattern. The form changes show how the word functions in a sentence; they do not change the basic lexical meaning by themselves.
Form patterns1Aligned forms1Case patternNominative (1)Number patternSingular (1)
Verse guides are not available for this word yet, so verse references remain plain evidence markers.
Nominative · Singular · Masculine1 Pet 5:11×
Word Origins
συμπρεσβύτερος is built from these roots: