Definition

seniority (eldership), i.e. (by implication) an embassy (concretely, ambassadors)

Etymology

from G4243 (πρεσβεύω);

Where the KJV renders it

• ambassage
• message

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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