Reference: Age, Aged, Old Age
Hastings
In the OT advancing age is represented by words of different root-meanings. The aged man is z
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Nevertheless, thou shalt go unto thy fathers in peace, and shalt be buried when thou art of a good age:
And he said, "My son shall not go down with you. For his brother is dead, and he is left alone. Moreover, some misfortune might happen upon him by the way which ye go. And so should ye bring my gray head with sorrow unto the grave."
And the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
Go therefore and gather the elders of Israel together and say unto them, 'the LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob, appeared unto me and said: I have been and seen both you and that which is done to you in Egypt.
Thou shalt rise up before the hoar head and reverence the face of the old man; and dread thy God, for I am the LORD.
a hard-favoured nation which shall not regard the person of the old nor have compassion on the young.
and that shall bring thy life again and cherish thine old age. For thy daughter-in-law which loveth thee hath borne him that is better to thee than seven sons."
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a fair age, like as the corn sheaves are brought in to the barn in due season.
"Among old persons there is wisdom, and among the aged is understanding.
He taketh the verity from out of the mouth, and disappointeth the aged of their wisdom.
With us are old and aged men; yea, such as have lived longer than thy forefathers.
When the young men, as soon as they saw me, hid themselves, and when the aged arose, and stood up unto me;
The power and strength of their hands might do me no good, and as for their age, it is spent and past away without any profit.
for I thought thus within myself: It becometh old men to speak, and the aged to teach wisdom.
Great men are not always wise, neither doth every aged man understand the thing that is lawful.
Great men are not always wise, neither doth every aged man understand the thing that is lawful.
Forsake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am grey-headed, until I have showed thy strength unto children's children, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.
Forsake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am grey-headed, until I have showed thy strength unto children's children, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come.
The days of our age are threescore years and ten: and though men be so strong that they come to fourscore years, yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.
With my whole heart do I seek thee; O let me not go wrong out of thy commandments.
Give ear unto thy father that begat thee; and despise not thy mother when she is old.
I, I which shall bear you unto your last age, I have made you; I will also nourish you, bear you and save you.
I was so wroth with my people, that I punished mine inheritance, and gave them into thy power. Nevertheless, thou showedest them no mercy, but even the very aged men of them, didst thou oppress right sore with thy yoke.
And therefore I am so full of thine indignation, O LORD, that I may suffer no longer. "Shed out thy wrath upon the children that are without, and upon all young men. Yea the man must be taken prisoner with the wife, and the aged with the cripple.
which thing they also did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.