πρεσβεία, πρεσβειας, ἡ (πρεσβεύω); 1. age, dignity, right of the first born: Aeschylus Pers. 4 ; Plato, de rep. 6, p. 509 b.; Pausanias, 3, 1, 4; 3, 3, 8. 2. the business usually to be entrusted to elders, specifically, the office of an ambassador, an embassy (Aristophanes, Xenophon, Plato); abstract for the concrete, an ambassage, i. e. ambassadors, Luk_14:32; Luk_19:14.

πρεσβεία presbeia 2x eldership, seniority; an embassy, legation; a body of ambassadors, legates, Luk_14:32 ; Luk_19:14

** πρεσβεία . -ας , ἡ ( < πρεσβεύω ), [in LXX : 2Ma_4:11 * ;] 1. age, seniority. 2. rank, dignity . 3. an embassy; by meton ., of the am\-bassadors, embassy: Luk_14:32 ; Luk_19:14 .†

πρεσβεία [page 534] Hicks ( CR i. p. 44) has drawn attention to the fact that πρεσβεία , the office of ambassador, was in everyday use in the intercourse between the Greek cities, and between them and the kings : this gives fresh point to its use in Luk_14:32 ; Luk_19:14 . See further s.v. πρεσβεύω , and for πρεσβεία = intercession, cf. P Oxy VIII. 1151 .39 (v/A.D.?) εὔχεσθ̣α̣ι πρεσβίαις τῆς δεσποίνης ἡμῶν τῆς θεοτόκου , pray through the intercession of our lady the mother of God.

πρεσβεία πρεσβεία, ἡ, [Etym: πρεσβεύω] "age, seniority", κατὰ πρεσβείαν Aesch. "rank, dignity", Plat. "an embassy, embassage", Thuc. , Plat. "the body of ambassadors", as we say, "the Embassy", Ar. , Thuc. :— "the ambassadors", of early times were "elders."

πρεσβεία, -ας, ἡ (πρεσβεύω), [in LXX: 2Ma.4:11 * ;] __1. age, seniority. __2. rank, dignity. __3. an embassy; by meton., of the am­bassadors, embassy: Luk.14:32 19:14.† (AS)