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# elders — English to Ukrainian

How English *elders* is translated into Ukrainian in open, checked parallel texts: 7 translations with example sentences.

The [Elamur Dictionary](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/english/) has no article on this word yet.

Sentence pairs counted, by form: elders (192). By style: everyday 8 · biblical 184.

## старших

Used about 90 times in the texts (everyday ≈ 6 · biblical ≈ 84). Forms: старшими, старших, старші.

- I was taught to respect my **elders**.
  Мене вчили поважати **старших**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by CK and deniko · checked, community translation · [\#252314](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/252314) [\#480457](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/480457))

- Moses went into the camp, he and the **elders** of Israel.
  І вернувся Мойсей до табору, він і **старші** мужі Ізрайлеві.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · NUM 11:30)

- When I was a child, we respected our **elders**.
  Коли я був малим, ми поважали **старших**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Eccles17 and deniko · checked, community translation · [\#6575325](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6575325) [\#6953603](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6953603))

- The apostles and the **elders** were gathered together to see about this matter.
  І зібрались апостоли та **старші** вглянути в сю річ.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 15:6)

- Respect your **elders**.
  Поважай **старших**.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Spamster and deniko · checked, community translation · [\#1682918](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/1682918) [\#7132673](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/7132673))

## мужі

Used about 19 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 19).

- Then the **elders** of his city shall call him, and speak to him. If he stands and says, “I don’t want to take her,”
  І громадські **мужі** мусять покликати його і сказати йому, що треба;
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 25:8)

- then your **elders** and your judges shall come out, and they shall measure to the cities which are around him who is slain.
  Так нехай вийдуть твої громадські **мужі** й суддї твої і зміряють від убитого до міст, що навкруги вбитого.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 21:2)

- The **elders** of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the LORD; and the bull shall be killed before the LORD.
  І положять громадські **мужі** руки свої на голову бичкові перед Господом, і буде заколений бичок перед Господом.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LEV 4:15)

- All the **elders** of that city which is nearest to the slain man shall wash their hands over the heifer whose neck was broken in the valley.
  І всї громадські **мужі** з того міста, що найближче до вбитого, помиють руки над ялівкою, що зломлено їй шию над потоком,
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 21:6)

- All of you stand today in the presence of the LORD your God: your heads, your tribes, your **elders**, and your officers, even all the men of Israel,
  Сьогоднї стоїте ви всї перед Господом, Богом вашим: голови поколїнь ваших, ваші громадські **мужі** і ваші начальники, всї мужі Ізрайлеві,
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · DEU 29:10)

## пресвитерів

Used about 12 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 12).

- When they had appointed **elders** for them in every assembly, and had prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord on whom they had believed.
  Рукоположивши ж їм **пресвитерів** по церквах і помолившись з постом, передали їх Господеві, в котрого увірували.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · ACT 14:23)

- I left you in Crete for this reason, that you would set in order the things that were lacking and appoint **elders** in every city, as I directed you—
  На те зоставив я тебе в Критї, щоб остальне довів до ладу і настановив по всїх городах **пресвитерів**, як я тобі повелїв.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · TIT 1:5)

- Is any among you sick? Let him call for the **elders** of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord;
  Чи хто нездужає між вами, нехай призове **пресвитерів** церкви, і нехай молять ся над ним, помазавши його оливою в імя Господнє;
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JAM 5:14)

## архиєреї

Used about 4 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 4).

- Immediately in the morning the chief priests, with the **elders**, scribes, and the whole council, held a consultation, bound Jesus, carried him away, and delivered him up to Pilate.
  І зараз уранцї, порадившись **архиєреї** з старшими та письменниками, і вся рада, звязавши Ісуса, повели та й видали Пилатові.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · MAR 15:1)

## громадські

Used about 4 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 4).

- Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the **elders** and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the LORD, your God, and cry to the LORD.
  Визначіте піст, оповістїть сходини **громадські**, скличте старшину й усїх осадників землї в дом Господа, Бога вашого, й благайте Господа.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · JOE 1:14)

## князї

Used about 4 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 4).

- Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of **elders** were not honored.
  **Князї** повішані їх руками, лиця старшин у зневазї.
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LAM 5:12)

## письменники

Used about 4 times in the texts (biblical ≈ 4).

- On one of those days, as he was teaching the people in the temple and preaching the Good News, the priests and scribes came to him with the **elders**.
  І сталось одного з тих днїв, як навчав Він народ у церкві та благовіствував, поприходили архиєреї та **письменники** з старшими,
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · LUK 20:1)

## More sentences

Sentence pairs with the word where no single translation was found: it may be translated by a phrase, or left out.

- Children often try to imitate their **elders**.
  Діти часто намагаються наслідувати дорослих.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by Zifre and aandrusiak · checked, community translation · [\#245935](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/245935) [\#576940](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/576940))

- Young people don't respect the experience of their **elders**.
  Молодь не поважає досвід старих.
  ([Tatoeba](https://tatoeba.org/) · Tatoeba, CC BY 2.0 FR · sentences by mailohilohi and deniko · checked, community translation · [\#5003049](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/5003049) [\#6327749](https://tatoeba.org/en/sentences/show/6327749))

- One of the **elders** answered, saying to me, “These who are arrayed in the white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?”
  І сказав один із старцїв, говорючи менї: Хто се, що зʼодягнені в білі одежі, і звідкіля прийшли?
  ([World English Bible and the Kulish–Puluj Bible (1905)](https://ebible.org/) · World English Bible; Kulish and Puluj 1905; public domain, eBible.org · checked, professional translation · REV 7:13)

## Grammar

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