older; ancestral; (n.) in the Gospels and Acts, elder, usually as an official leader of the Jewish community, in the epistles, older man and older woman, who may or may not be official leaders of the churc
a body of old men, an assembly of elders; the Jewish Sanhedrin, Lk. 22:66; Acts 22:5; a body of elders in the Christian church, a presbytery, 1 Tim. 4:14*
