shining by day

ἡμεροφανής

shining by day: masc /fem acc pl

ἡμεροφανής

shining by day: masc /fem nom /voc pl (attic epic)

ἡμεροφανής

shining by day: masc /fem acc pl

ἡμεροφανής

shining by day: masc /fem nom /voc pl (attic epic)

ἡμεροφανής

shining by day: masc /fem voc sg

ἡμεροφανής

shining by day: neut nom /voc /acc sg

ἡμεροφανής

shining by day: masc /fem voc sg

ἡμεροφανής

shining by day: neut nom /voc /acc sg

ἡμεροφαής

shining by day: masc /fem voc sg

ἡμεροφαής

shining by day: neut nom /voc /acc sg

ἡμεροφαής

shining by day: masc /fem voc sg

ἡμεροφαής

shining by day: neut nom /voc /acc sg

ἡμεροφανής

shining by day: masc /fem nom sg

ἡμεροφανής

shining by day: masc /fem nom sg

ἡμεροφαής

shining by day: masc /fem nom sg

ἡμεροφαής

shining by day: masc /fem nom sg

ἡμερο-φᾰής, ές,

A shining by day,

ἄστρον TheanoEp.10

:—also [suff] ἡμερο-φᾰνής, ές, Pl.Def. 411b, Arist.Top. 142b1.

Grammatical information: m.

Other forms: Boeot. Lac. etc. Δεύς, voc. Ζεῦ, gen. Δι(Ϝ)ός, dat. (loc.) Δι(Ϝ)ί, dat. also ΔιϜεί (e. g. ΔιϜεί-φιλος;), acc. Ζῆν, since Hom. also Δί-α, Ζῆν-α with Ζην-ός, -ί; nom. Ζήν (A. Supp. 162 [lyr.]; or voc.?), Ζάν (Pythag., Ar.), Ζάς (Pherec. Syr.), gen. Ζανός (inscr. Chios IV^a [? ] a. o.); note Δᾶν (Theocr. 4, 17); more forms in Schwyzer 576f., Leumann Hom. Wörter 288ff. and the dict.

Dialectal forms: Myc. dat. diwe \/diwei\/

Compounds: As 1. member in univerbations like Διόσ-κουροι (gen.; also Διεσ-κουρίδου [Priene a. o.]), ΔιϜεί-φιλος (dat.), stemform e. g. in διο-γενής; also Ζηνό-δοτος (for Διόσ-δοτος) a. o.; as 2. member in ἔνδιος, εὑδία, s. vv.; cf. also αὑτόδιον.

Derivatives: δῖος, s. v.

Origin: IE [Indo-European] [184] * dieu- `Zeus'

Etymology: Ols name of heaven, of the god of heaven, of the day, preserved esp. in Sanskrit, Greek and Italic, and prob. in Hittite, with several related forms: Ζεύς = Skt. dyáuḥ `(god of) heaven, day', Lat. Iovis and pob. in nu-diūs tertius `(it is) now the third day', i. e. `the day before yesterday', IE *d(i)i̯ēus; also Hitt. * šiuš, šiun(i)- `god'; Ζεῦ πάτερ = Lat. Iūpiter, Ζῆν = Skt. dyā́m, Lat. diem (with new nom. diēs, Diēspiter; cf. also Illyr. Δειπάτυρος); the other oblique cases, ΔιϜ-ός, - εί, -ί, Δία agree with Skt. diváḥ, divé, diví, dívam (partly parallell innovations). New in Greek are Ζῆν-α (after Δί-α) with Ζηνός, -ί, which contains the old acc. *Di̯ē(u)m with early loss of the u̯ seen also in Skt. Dyām; not to IE * din- `day' in Lat. nun-dinae `market-day', Skt. madhyán-dinam `midday' a. o. (after Kretschmer Glotta 14, 303f. also Τιν-δαρίδαι and 30, 93ff). - The α in Ζάς, Ζάν, Ζανός was spread from Elean Olympia, where η became ᾱ, s. Leumann Hom. Wörter 288ff. (after Kretschmer Glotta 17, 197) and Fraenkel Gnomon 23, 373. - It is generally assumed that IE *d(i)i̯ēus is an agent noon of the verb seen in Skt. dī́-de-ti `shine', gr. δέατο (s. v.) meaning `shine, glow, light'; *d(i)i̯ēus prop. "the shining, gleaming". Objections in Wackernagel BerlAkSb. 1918, 396ff. (= Kl. Schr. 1, 315ff.), Nilsson Gr. Rel. 1, 391. Beside Ζεύς etc. there is an old appellative for `god' in Skt. deváḥ = Lat. deus = Lith. diẽvas a. o., IE *deiu̯os; prop. "the heavenly, caelestis" as deriv. from the noun for `heaven'. - Except Bq see W.-Hofmann s. diēs, Fraenkel Lit. et. Wb. s. diẽvas, Wackernagel-Debrunner Aind. Gramm. 3, 219ff., Mayrhofer EWAia. s. dyáuh, Benveniste Origines 59f, 166. (Cf. also Τινδαρίδαι).

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φαίνω, Od.7.102, etc., [dialect] Ep. also [full] φαείνω (q. v.):—[tense] fut. φᾰνῶ, A.Fr. 304.5, Ar.Ach. 827, etc. ( φᾱνῶ acc. to A.D.Adv.187.26, but φᾱνῶ, Ar. Eq. 300, and ἀναφᾱνῶ, E.Ba. 528, are dub.); [dialect] Ion. φᾰνέω ([etym.] ἀπο-) Hp.Steril. 213, opt.

A

φᾰνοίην S.Aj. 313

(cod. rec., rightly): [tense] aor. 1

ἔφηνα Il.2.318

, Hdt.1.95, etc.; [dialect] Dor.

ἔφᾱνα Pi.I.4(3).2

, IG42(1).123.28 (Epid., iv B.C.), also later [dialect] Att., subj., ἀπο-φάνῃ dub. l. in IG22.1631.379 ( = 2.811c133);

φάνῃς Philem.233

(

ἐκ-φάνῃς Men.Mon. 418

= Chares Iamb.4b20); so in late Prose, ([etym.] ἐξ-) Ael.VH12.33, ([etym.] ἐπι-) Ev.Luc.1.79, ([etym.] ἀνα-) Act.Ap. 21.3; [dialect] Ep. iter. φάνεσκε (intr.) Il.11.64, al., Hes.Fr.14.3: [tense] pf.

πέφαγκα Ps.-Callisth.2.10

, ([etym.] ἀπο-) Din.1.15, al.: intr. [tense] pf. πέφηνα (v. infr.A 111.2), [dialect] Dor.[ per.] 3pl.

ἐκ-πεφάναντι Sophr.83

; [tense] plpf.

ἐπεφήνειν D.C.46.10

:—[voice] Med., [tense] fut. inf.

φᾰνεῖσθαι Od.12.230

, [dialect] Ion.

φᾰνέομαι Hdt.3.35

; opt.

φανοῖσθε Lys.26.10

(nisi leg. φανεῖσθε); the forms φανῆσθον and [dialect] Dor. imper. φάνευ are corrupt in Pl.Erx. 399e, Teles p.58 H. (leg. φαίνευ): [tense] aor. 1 ἐφηνάμην (trans.) S.Ph. 944, ([etym.] ἀπ-) Hdt.7.52, etc.:—[voice] Pass., [dialect] Ion. [tense] impf.

φαινέσκετο Od.13.194

: [tense] fut.

φᾰνήσομαι Hdt.8.108

, Sicilian [dialect] Dor. (inf.) φᾰνήσειν (fort. - ησεῖν) Archim.A ren.4.20; [dialect] Ep. [tense] fut.

πεφήσεται Il.17.155

: [tense] aor. 1

ἐφάνθην A.Pers. 263

(lyr.), S.OT 525, etc.:rare in Prose, X.HG6.4.11, D.58.13, ([etym.] ἀπο-) IG12.10.35, D.19.44; [dialect] Ep. [ per.] 3sg.

φαάνθη Il.17.650

, [ per.] 3pl.

φάανθεν 1.200

: [tense] aor. 2 ἐφάνην [ᾰ], [dialect] Ep.

φάνην Il.1.477

, etc.; [dialect] Ep. [ per.] 3pl.

φάνεν Od.18.68

; [dialect] Ep. subj.

φανήῃ Il.19.375

; [dialect] Ep. inf.

φανήμεναι 9.240

: [tense] pf.

πέφασμαι S.OC 1543

, [ per.] 3sg.

πέφανται Il.2.122

, 16.207, Pi.P.5.115, A.Ag. 374(lyr.); πέφᾰται in B.9.52, Perict. ap. Stob. 4.28.19 belongs either to φαίνω in sense A. 1.5, or to φημί; inf.

πεφάνθαι Pl.Euthd. 294a

, etc.; part.

πεφασμένος Il.14.127

, Thgn.227, A.Pr. 843, S.OC 1122, Pl.Phdr. 245e, etc.; [ per.] 3pl. [tense] plpf.

ἐπέφαντο Hes.Sc. 166

.

A [voice] Act., bring to light, cause to appear, in physical sense, τέρας τινὶ φ. make a sign appear to one, Il.2.324, cf. Od.3.173, etc.;

σήματα φαίνων Il.2.353

;

γένυσι φ. ὀπώραν Pi.N.5.6

;

δύο μορφὰς φ. A.Fr.304.5

;

τὸν αὐχένα Hdt.2.132

; ἔφην' ἄφαντον φῶς, i.e. fire, S.Ph. 297;

λαμπάδας Ar.Ra. 1524

(anap.);

φ. θησαυρόν E.El. 565

; φ. μηρούς, ἐπιγουνίδα, show by baring, i.e. uncover.., Od.18.67,74;

φαίνοισα πρόσωπον ἀλάθεια Pi.N.5.17

; reflect an image in water,

τὰ δέ νιν καλὰ κύματα φαίνει Theoc.6.11

:—[voice] Med., τὰ τόξα.. τοῖσιν Ἀργείοισι φήνασθαι θέλει exhibit them as his own, S.Ph. 944.

b make known, reveal, disclose,

ἐς τὸ φῶς φανεῖ κακά Id.OT 1229

;

κακῶν ἔκλυσιν E.IT 898

(lyr., prob.);

τὸν μιαρὸν τῷ χρόνῳ ἀποδόντες φῆναι Antipho 4.4.11

;

ὁδόν τινι Od.12.334

;

τὰ ὀνείρατα καὶ τὸν πόρον X.An.4.3.13

, cf. Cyr.6.4.13, S.OT 725;

τοῖς πολεμίοις σύνθημα Din.3.10

, etc.; φανεῖ.. κωκύματα wailings will show forth [the truth of what I say], S.Ant. 1078: with a predic. added, ἡμᾶς σὺ δειλοὺς φανεῖς wilt make us appear.., Id.Aj. 1362;

τὸν Ααΐου φόνον φανεῖ δικαίως ὀρθόν Id.OT 853

.

c γόνον Ἑλένῃ φ. show her a child, i. e. grant her to bear one, Od.4.12; φ. παράκοιτίν τινι show (i.e. give) one a wife, 15.26.

2 of sound, make it clear to the ear, make it ring clear,

ἀοιδὴν φαίνειν 8.499

;

σάλπιγξ.. ὑπέρτονον γήρυμα φαινέτω στρατῷ A.Eu. 569

.

3 show forth, display in action,

ἀρετήν Od.8.237

;

ἀεικείας 20.309

;

βίην Hes.Th. 689

;

εὐμαχανίαν Pi.I.4(3).2

;

εὔνοιαν Hdt.3.36

; ὕβριν ib. 127;

ὀργάς A.Ch. 326

(lyr.).

b set forth, expound,

νοήματα Il.18.295

;

λόγον Hdt.1.116

;

τριφασίας λόγων ὁδούς Id.1.95

; but τὰ λαμπρὰ.. φ. ἔπη make them good, S.OC 721.

4 inform against one, denounce, φανῶ σε ( σε φανῶ codd.)

τοῖς πρυτάνεσι Ar.Eq. 300

(lyr.), cf. Ach. 824, S.Ant. 325: denounce a thing as contraband, Ar.Ach. 542, 819, al.;

φαίνειν πλοῖον D.58.9

; τὰ φανθέντα articles denounced as contraband, ib. 13: abs., give information,

ὁ φήνας ἢ ὁ γραψάμενος IG12.45.3

, cf. 4.24, Isoc.18.20, X.Cyr.1.2.14, Phld.Rh.2.207 S., etc.

5 φαίνειν φρουράν, call up a levy, at Sparta, X.HG3.2.23, al.; also φ. θυσίαν proclaim, order a sacrifice, Philod.Scarph.112:—[voice] Pass., πέφαται θνατοῖσι νίκας ὕστερον εὐφροσύνα has been ordained, B.9.52.

II abs., give light, shine,

φαίνοντες νύκτας.. δαιτυμόνεσσι Od.7.102

, cf. 19.25; of the sun, moon, etc.,

φ. τινί Ar.Nu. 586

(troch.);

εἰς ἅπαντα φ. τὸν οὐρανόν Pl.Ti. 39b

;

ἀλλά, σελάνα, φαῖνε καλόν Theoc.2.11

;

οἱ λύχνοι φ. ἧττον Thphr.Ign.11

; cf. φάω: so ἦρι μὲν φαίνοντι in spring when it shines forth, A.Fr.304.4 codd. (leg. φανέντι); of the Dioscuri shining in mid-air, E.El. 1234 (anap.): metaph., ἀγανὴ φαίνουσ' ἐλπίς soft shining hope, A.Ag. 101 (anap., dub.).

b Φαίνων, οντος, ὁ, the planet Saturn, Arist.Mu. 392a23, Cic.ND2.20.52, etc.;

Φ. ὁ τοῦ Ἡλίου Eudox. Ars5.19

; acc.

- ωνα Placit.2.15.4

.

III [dialect] Ep. iter. φάνεσκε appeared,

μετὰ πρώτοισι φάνεσκε Il.11.64

;

ὑπένερθε δὲ γαῖα φάνεσκε Od. 12.242

, cf. 11.587, Hes.Fr.14.3.

2 [tense] pf. 2 πέφηνα is also used intr., S.OC 328, etc.; less freq. in Prose, Hdt.9.120, D.3.22, Plb.9.13.8.

B [voice] Pass., come to light, appear, φάνεν δέ οἱ εὐρέες ὦμοι, being stripped bare, Od.18.68, cf. Il.22.324, Od.19.39: freq. of fire, shine brightly,

πυρὰ φαίνετο Ἰλιόθι πρό Il.8.561

;

ἕκαθεν δέ τε φαίνεται αὐγή 2.456

;

δεινὼ δέ οἱ ὄσσε φάανθεν

shone like fire,

Il.1.200

: freq. of the rising of heavenly bodies,

ἄστρα φαεινὴν ἀμφὶ σελήνην φαίνετ' ἀριπρεπέα 8.556

, cf. Hes.Op. 598; of the first gleam of daybreak,

ἦμος δ' ἠριγένεια φάνη ῥοδοδάκτυλος Ἠώς Il.1.477

, Od.2.1, al.; ἅμ' ἠοῖ φαινομένηφι at break of day, Il.9.618, cf. Od.4.407, al.;

ἀκτὶς ἀελίου, τὸκάλλιστον.. φανὲν.. τῶν προτέρων φάος, ἐφάνθης ποτ' S.Ant. 100

(lyr.): of a rising wind,

οὐδέ ποτ' οὖροι πνείοντες φαίνονθ' ἁλιαέες Od.4.361

; of a vapour,

ἐκ νεφέων ἐρεβεννὴ φ. ἀήρ Il.5.864

.

2 of persons, οἴῳ φαινομένη appearing to him alone, Il.1.198, cf. Od.15.517, etc.;

ἐφάνη λὶς εἰς ὁδόν Il.15.275

; οὗπερ κἀφάνης where thou didst first appear, S.OC77;

χρόνιος φανείς Id.Ph. 1446

(anap.); ὁδόν φανῆναι a pregnant expression for ἐλθεῖν ὁδὸν ὥστε φανῆναι, Id.El. 1274 (lyr.);

κέλευθον φανείς Aj. 878

(lyr.); πόθεν φαίνῃ; whence come you? Pl.Prt. 309a, X.Mem.2.8.1; οὐδαμοῦ φ. is nowhere to be seen, Id.An.1.10.16.

b come into being, φανεὶς δύστηνος born to misery, S.OC 974, cf. 1225 (lyr.); become,

ἐκ βασιλέως ἰδιώτην φανῆναι X.An.7.7.28

;

δυοῖν ἐφάνη τριήραρχος D.18.104

; to be made out,

δοῦλος λόγοισιν.. φανείς S.Aj. 1020

, cf. 1241.

3 of events, come about,

τέλος οὔ πώ τι πέφανται Il.2.122

;

φάνη βιότοιο τελευτή 7.104

; ἔργον, ἄεθλον, etc., 16.207, Od.21.106, etc.;

τὸ φανθέν S.Tr. 743

; of sayings, to be set forth, λόγος ἀρχαῖος φανείς ib.1, cf. OT 474 (lyr.), 848.

II appear to be so and so, c. inf.,

δμῳάων ἥ τίς τοι ἀρίστη φαίνεται εἶναι Od.15.25

, cf. 11.336;

οὐ γάρ σφιν ἐφαίνετο κέρδιον εἶναι 14.355

;

τοῦτό μοι θειότατον φαίνεται γενέσθαι Hdt.7.137

;

εὖ σὺ λέγειν φαίνει Ar.Nu. 403

(anap.), cf. A.Pr. 319, etc.: freq. with inf. omitted,

οὗ καὶ πρόσθεν ἀρίστη φαίνετο βουλή Il.9.94

, cf. 2.5;

ὅς τις φαίνηται ἄριστος Od.14.106

;

σμερδαλέος αὐτῇσι φάνη 6.137

;

ἕρμαιον ἂν ἐφάνη Pl.R. 368d

, etc.: but in Hdt., etc., also c. part., to be manifest: thus, ἐμοὶ σὺ πλουτέειν μέγα φαίνεαι you appear to me to be very rich, Hdt.1.32; but εὔνοος ἐφαίνετο ἐών he was manifestly well-inclined, Id.7.173, cf. 175, Th.1.2; οὐκ ἄκαιρα φαίνεται λέγειν he appears to be speaking.., A.Pr. 1036; but φανέονται λέγοντες οὐδέν it will be manifest that they talk nonsense, Hdt.3.35;

φαίνομαι δύο καθορᾶν εἴδη Pl.Sph. 235d

; but

οὐκ ἂν φανεῖμεν πήματ' ἔρξαντες A.Pers. 786

;

πλαγκτὸς οὖσ' ἐφαινόμην Id.Ag. 593

, cf. Hdt.9.89, E.Andr. 343;

ἐφάνησαν πεπονθότες Pl.Ap. 22c

: with part. omitted, πέφανται ἁρματηλάτας σοφός (sc. ὤν) Pi.P.5.115, cf. N.6.14;

κρατηθεὶς ἡμερώτερος φανεῖ A.Ag. 1632

; Κᾶρες ἐφάνησαν (sc. ὄντες) they were seen to be Carians, Th.1.8; τί φαίνομαι (sc. ὤν) δῆτ'; what do I look like? E.Ba. 925;

ὡς ἀγαθοὶ.. ἐφάνησαν Pl.R. 408a

: hence φαίνεσθαι, opp.

εἶναι, εἶναι μὲν ὅσπερ εἰμί, φαίνεσθαι δὲ μή E.Fr. 698

(ap.Ar.Ach. 441);

στρατηγὸς ἀγαθὸς μὴ ὢν φαίνεσθαι X.Mem.1.7.3

;

ὀλίγοι καὶ ὄντες καὶ φαινόμενοι Id.HG6.5.28

.

2 in Philosophy, φαίνομαι (abs.) is sts. used of what appears to the senses,

φαίνεται δ' οὐδὲν

is observed,

Arist. Ph. 204b35

, cf. Cael. 312b30;

φ. κατὰ τὴν αἴσθησιν Id.GA 716a31

: sts. of what is mentally manifest, Id.EN 1175a29; to be evident, Id.APr. 24b24: esp. appear to the imagination (cf.

φαντασία 2

), Pl.Sph. 264b;

φ. καὶ μύουσιν ὁράματα Arist.de An. 428a16

; φ. δέ τι.. οἷον τὰ ἐν τοῖς ὕπνοις ib.a7: distd. from αἰσθάνεσθαι and δοξάζειν, ib.b1: esp. in part. φαινόμενος, η, ον:

a appearing in sense experience,

τὰ φ. κατὰ τὴν αἴσθησιν Id.Cael. 303a22

, al.;

εἴτε τὰ δοκοῦντα πάντα ἐστὶν ἀληθῆ καὶ τὰ φ. Id.Metaph. 1009a8

, cf. de An. 404a29 (sg.);

τὰ φ.

sense-data,

Id.PA 639b8

, Epicur.Ep.1pp.9,10 U., al.: Astron., τὰ φ. = celestial phenomena, title of a work by Eudoxus, versified by Aratus, Hipparch. 1.1.8, cf. Arist. Cael. 293b27; πρός τινας δόξας αὑτῶν τὰ φ. προσέλκοντες ib. 293a26: generally,

τὸ μὴ ἐκ φαινομένων τὸ βλεπόμενον γεγονέναι Ep.Heb.11.3

.

b mentally apparent, opp. ὄντα τῇ ἀληθείᾳ, Pl.R. 596e, cf. Arist.Top. 100b24, EN 1113a24;

τὰ οὖν ἐμοὶ φαινόμενα οὕτω φαίνεται Pl.R. 517b

; [

νοῦς] τῶν φ. θειότατον Arist. Metaph. 1074b16

; τὸ φ. εἰπεῖν to express one's opinion, Plu.2.158c: hence, specious, fallacious, φ. ἐνθυμήματα, opp. ὄντα, Arist.Rh. 1402a28.

c

τὰ φ.

what is to be seen, show,

Lib.Or.30.28

.

3 freq. in answers in Plato's dialogue, φαίνεται, yes, Prt. 332e, R.333c, al.;

ὥς γέ μοι φ. Prt.324d

, cf. R.383a, al.: [τοῦτο] φῂς εἶναι; Answ. φαίνομαι (sc. λέγειν) X.Mem.4.2.20.

b later impers. c. dat. pers. et inf., it seems good, ἐάν σοι φαίνηται Wilcken Chr.304.11 (iii B.C.), cf. PCair.Zen.44.7,16 (iii B.C.), etc.;

ὁπότε αὐτῷ φανείη στρατιὰν ἐξάγειν D.H.2.14

, cf. 4.85.

4 joined with

δοκέω, εἰ δὴ κακός τε φ. δοκῶ τέ σοι E.Hipp. 1071

;

δοκοῖμεν ἂν.. χείρους φαίνεσθαι Th.1.122

, cf. Pl.Phdr. 269d, Erx. 399c, X.Mem.2.1.22.

5 οὐδαμοῦ φαίνεσθαι 'to be nowhere', metaph. from racing, Pl.Phd. 72c, cf. Grg. 456b, D.18.310.

III τὰ φανθέντα, v. supr. A. 1.4.

φᾰεινός, ή, όν (so always in [dialect] Ep.), [dialect] Aeol., Trag. (even in dialogue, E.Ph.84, al.) and Lyr. [full] φᾰεννός, [dialect] Att. [full] φᾱνός (q.v.):—poet. Adj.,

A shining, radiant,

πῦρ Il.5.215

;

σελήνη 8.555

;

Ἠώς Od.4.188

;

ὄσσε Il.13.3

;

χαλκός 12.151

;

κασσίτερος 23.561

; ὀρείχαλκος, χρυσός, Hes.Sc. 122, 142;

κρητήρ Il.3.247

, al.;

δόρυ 4.496

; ἀσπίς, σάκος, 3.357, 8.272;

πήληξ 13.805

;

θώρηξ φαεινότερος πυρὸς αὐγῆς 18.610

;

ὅπλα E.Andr. 1146

;

μάστιξ Il.10.500

;

θύραι Od.6.19

; of bright colours,

ζωστὴρ φοίνικι φαεινός Il.6.219

, cf. 15.538; φ. πεπλος, ta/phs, 5.315, 10.156;

φ. πλόκαμοι

bright, glossy,

14.176

; εἶδος, of the stars, Sapph.3.2;

ἄστρον Pi.O.1.6

, cf. E.Cyc. 353, al.; ἔρεβος ὦ φαεννότατον ὡς ἐμοί darkness bright as the day to me, S.Aj. 395 (lyr.); of the Dawn, AP5.227 (Paul. Sil.).

2 of the voice, clear, distinct, far-sounding, Pi.P.4.283.

3 splendid, brilliant, ἀρεταί, θυσίαι, Id.N.7.51, I.5(4).30;

κρηπὶς ἐλευθερίας Id.Fr.77

.—Very rare in Prose, ἐν τοῖς φαεινοῖς χρόνοις, of clear nights, Aen.Tact.25.2; Φάεννος is pr. n. at Rhodes, Chron.Lind. B.34.

πρεσβύτερος, α, ον (Hom.+; comp. of πρέσβυς)

① pert. to being relatively advanced in age, older, old

ⓐ of an individual person older of two ὁ υἱὸς ὁ πρ. (cp. Aelian, VH 9, 42; TestJob 15:2 τῷ ἀδελφῷ τῷ πρεσβυτέρῳ; JosAs; Just., A II, 6, 1) Lk 15:25; of Manasseh (w. Ephraim) B 13:5. In contrast to the younger generation οἱ πρεσβύτεροι the older ones J 8:9. Opp. οἱ νεανίσκοι Ac 2:17 (Jo 3:1). Opp. νεώτεροι (s. νεός 3aβ) 1 Ti 5:1 (similar advice, containing a contrast betw. πρ. and νεώτ., from ins and lit. in MDibelius, Hdb. ad loc.); 1 Pt 5:5 (though here the πρεσβύτεροι are not only the older people, but at the same time, the ‘elders’; s. 2bβ). The same double mng. is found for πρεσβύτεροι in 1 Cl 1:3 beside νέοι, while in 3:3; 21:6, beside the same word, the concept of being old is the dominant one (as Jos., C. Ap. 2, 206). On the disputed pass. Hv 3, 1, 8 (οἱ νεανίσκοι … οἱ πρεσβύτεροι) cp. MDibelius, Hdb. ad loc.—Fem. πρεσβυτέρα old(er) woman (opp. νεωτέρα, as Gen 19:31) 1 Ti 5:2.—With no ref. to younger persons, w. complete disappearance of the comparative aspect: πρεσβύτερος an old man (Jos., Ant. 13, 226; 292 [as a witness of events in the past, as Ps.-Pla., Virt. 3, 377b; 4, 377c]) Hv 3, 12, 2; cp. 3, 11, 3. The personified church is called λίαν πρεσβυτέρα very old 3, 10, 3; cp. 3, 11, 2. She appears as ἡ πρ. the elderly woman 2, 1, 3; 3, 1, 2; 3, 10, 6; 9 and has τὰς τρίχας πρεσβυτέρας the hair of an old woman 3, 10, 4; 5; 3, 12, 1.

ⓑ of a period of time (Petosiris, Fgm. 3 and 4 mention οἱ πρεσβύτεροι and οἱ νεώτεροι. In both instances the context shows that the reference is to astrologers from earlier and more recent times) οἱ πρεσβύτεροι the men of old, our ancestors Hb 11:2. ἡ παράδοσις τῶν πρεσβυτέρων the tradition of the ancients (cp. Iambl., Vi. Pyth. 35, 253 τῶν π. συγγράμματα) Mt 15:2; Mk 7:3, 5 (ELohse, D. Ordination im Spätjudentum u. NT, ’51, 50–56: scholars).

② an official (cp. Lat. senator), elder, presbyter

ⓐ among the Jews (the congregation of a synagogue in Jerusalem used πρεσβύτεροι to denote its officers before 70 A.D.: SEG VIII, 170, 9; cp. Dssm., LO 378–80 [LAE 439–41]).

α. for members of local councils in individual cities (cp. Josh 20:4; Ruth 4:2; 2 Esdr 10:14; Jdth 8:10; 10:6) Lk 7:3; 1 Cl 55:4.—Schürer II, 185.

β. for members of a group in the Sanhedrin (Schürer II, 206–8; JJeremias, Jerusalem z. Zt. Jesu II B 1: Die gesellschaftl. Oberschicht 1929, 88ff). They are mentioned together w. (the) other groups: ἀρχιερεῖς (Ac 4:5 has ἄρχοντες for this), γραμματεῖς, πρεσβύτεροι (the order is not always the same) Mt 16:21; 26:3 v.l.; 27:41; Mk 8:31; 11:27; 14:43, 53; 15:1; Lk 9:22; 20:1.—Only ἀρχιερεῖς (Ac 4:8 has for this ἄρχοντες τοῦ λαοῦ) and πρεσβύτεροι (τοῦ λαοῦ: cp. Ex 19:7; Num 11:16b, 24; 1 Macc 7:33; 12:35; Just., D. 40, 4 al.) Mt 21:23; 26:3, 47, 59 v.l.; 27:1, 3, 12, 20; 28:(11), 12; Lk 22:52 (here, as an exception, οἱ στρατηγοὶ τοῦ ἱεροῦ); Ac 4:23; 23:14; 25:15; cp. 24:1. Also οἱ πρεσβύτεροι καὶ οἱ ἱερεῖς GPt 7:25 (for this combination cp. Jos., Ant. 11, 83; 12, 406).—Only πρεσβύτεροι and γραμματεῖς Mt 26:57; Ac 6:12.—The use of πρεσβύτερος as a title among the Jews of the Diaspora appears quite late, except for the allusions in the LXX (cp. Schürer III/1, 102; MAMA III [Cilicia], 344; 448 [cp. ZNW 31, ’32, 313f]. Whether πρεσβύτερος is to be understood in the older Roman inscriptions [CIJ 378] as a title [so CIJ p. lxxxvi], remains doubtful).

ⓑ among the Christians (for their use of the word as a title one must bear in mind not only the Jewish custom, but also its use as a t.t. among the ἔθνη, in connection w. associations of the ‘old ones’ [FPoland, Geschichte des griech. Vereinswesens 1909, 98ff] and to designate civic as well as religious officials [Dssm., B 153ff=BS 154–57, NB 60ff=BS 233–35, also LO 315, 5; HHausschildt, ZNW 4, 1903, 235ff; MStrack, ibid. 213ff; HLietzmann, ZWT 55, 1914, 116–32 [=Kl. Schr. I ’58, 156–69]; MDibelius, exc. on 1 Ti 5:17ff; RAlastair-Campbell, The Elders, Seniority within Earliest Christianity ’94.].—BGU 16, 6 [159 A.D.] πρεσβύτεροι ἱερεῖς θεοῦ Σοκνοπαίου; 347, 6; PVindBosw 1, 31 [87 A.D.].—As honorary title: Iren. 4, 26, 5 [Harv. II 238, 3]. The Engl. word ‘priest’ comes fr. πρεσβύτερος via Lat. presbyter; later Christian usage is largely, if not entirely, responsible for this development; s. OED s.v. ‘priest’ B).

α. Ac 11:30; 14:23; 15:2, 4, 6, 22f; 16:4 (in all the places in Ac 15 and 16 mention is made of οἱ ἀπόστολοι καὶ οἱ πρεσβύτεροι in the Jerusalem church); 20:17; 21:18; 1 Ti 5:17, 19 (Nicol. Dam.: 90 Fgm. 103a Jac. νεωτέρῳ πρεσβυτέρου καταμαρτυρεῖν οὐκ ἔξεστι); Tit 1:5; Js 5:14; 1 Pt 5:1, 5 (s. 1a above); 1 Cl 44:5; 47:6; 54:2; 57:1. WWrede, Untersuchungen zum 1 Cl 1891, 8ff.—Acc. to 2 Cl 17:3, 5 exhortation and preaching in the church services were among their duties.—In Ign. the πρεσβύτεροι come after the bishop, to whom they are subordinate IMg 2; 3:1; 6:1, or betw. the bishop and the deacons IPhld inscr.; 10:2; IPol 6:1, or the higher rank of the bishop in comparison to them is made plain in some other way ITr 3:1; 12:2 (s. πρεσβυτέριον b; cp. Hippol., Ref. 9, 12, 22).—Polycarp—an ἐπίσκοπος, accord. to the title of the Ep. bearing his name—groups himself w. πρεσβύτεροι in Pol inscr., and further takes the presence of presbyters in Philippi for granted (beside deacons, though no ἐπίσκοπος is mentioned; cp. Hdb. on Pol inscr.) Pol 5:3.

β. Just how we are to understand the words ὁ πρεσβύτερος, applied to himself by the author of the two smallest Johannine letters 2J 1; 3J 1, remains in doubt. But in any case it is meant to indicate a position of great dignity the elder.—HWindisch, exc. on 3J, end; ESchwartz, Über den Tod der Söhne Zebedaei 1904, 47; 51; HWendt, ZNW 23, 1924, 19; EKäsemann, ZTK 48, ’51, 292–311; DWatson, NTS 35, ’89, 104–30, rhetorical analysis of 2J.—ὁ πρ. and οἱ πρ. are mentioned by Papias in these much-discussed passages: 2:3, 4, 5, 7, 14, 15. For some of the lit. s. the note on JKleist’s transl. ’48, p. 207 n. 18.

γ. In Rv there are 24 elders sitting on thrones about the throne of God; they form a heavenly council of elders (cp. Is 24:23) 4:4, 10; 5:5–14; 7:11, 13; 11:16; 14:3; 19:4. The elders have been understood as glorified human beings of some kind or astral deities (or angels) (for the var. views s. RCharles, ICC Rv I 128–33; JMichl, D. 24 Ältesten in d. Apk. d. hl. J. ’38); the number 24 has been referred to the following: the 24 priestly classes of the Jews (1 Ch 24:7–18; Jos., Ant. 7, 365–67) whose heads were called ‘elders’ (Yoma 1, 5; Tamid 1, 1; Middoth 1, 8); the 24 stars which, according to Babylonian belief, stood half on the north and half on the south of the zodiac (Diod S 2, 31, 4; POsl 4, 19: HGunkel, Z. religionsgesch. Verständnis des NT 1903, 42f; Boll 35f); the 24 hours of the day, represented as old men w. shining garments and w. crowns (acc. to the Test. of Adam [ed. CBezold, TNöldeke Festschr. 1906, 893–912]: JWellhausen, Analyse der Offb. Joh. 1907, p. 9, 1; NMorosof, Offb. Joh. 1912, 32); the 24 Yazatas in the state of the gods in heaven, acc. to Persian thought (Bousset). It is certainly an open question whether, or how far, the writer of Rv had any of these things in mind.—On the presbyters, and esp. on the question how ἐπίσκοπος and πρεσβύτερος were originally related to each other (a question which is raised particularly in the pastorals; cp. MDibelius, Hdb. exc. after 1 Ti 3:7 section 2 [w. lit.] and before 5:17), s. the lit. s.v. ἐπίσκοπος.—BEaston, Pastoral Epistles ’47, 188–97; WMichaelis, Das Ältestenamt ’53; GBornkamm, πρεσβύτερος; RCampbell, The Elders ’94.—B. 1472. DELG s.v. πρέσβυς. M-M. EDNT. TW.