G4242
πρεσβεία
delegation
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)
The KJV translates G4242 in the following manner:
ambassage (2x), message (2x)
Full Thayer's lexicon entry
πρεσβεία — presbeía
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.
2 occurrences