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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But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left: if harm befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol.
Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, Jehovah, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, hath appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and'seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honor the face of the old man, and thou shalt fear thy God: I am Jehovah.
a nation of fierce countenance, that shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young,
And he shall be unto thee a restorer of life, and a nourisher of thine old age, for thy daughter-in-law, who loveth thee, who is better to thee than seven sons, hath borne him.
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, Like as a shock of grain cometh in in its season.
With aged men is wisdom, And in length of days understanding.
He removeth the speech of the trusty, And taketh away the understanding of the elders.
With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.
The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;
Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.
I said, Days should speak, And multitude of years should teach wisdom.
It is not the great that are wise, Nor the aged that understand justice.
It is not the great that are wise, Nor the aged that understand justice.
Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto the next generation, Thy might to every one that is to come.
Yea, even when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not, Until I have declared thy strength unto the next generation, Thy might to every one that is to come.
The days of our years are threescore years and ten, Or even by reason of strength fourscore years; Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow; For it is soon gone, and we fly away.
With my whole heart have I sought thee: Oh let me not wander from thy commandments.
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she is old.
and even to old age I am he, and even to hoar hairs will I carry you ; I have made, and I will bear; yea, I will carry, and will deliver.
I was wroth with my people, I profaned mine inheritance, and gave them into thy hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the aged hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke.
Therefore I am full of the wrath of Jehovah; I am weary with holding in: pour it out upon the children in the street, and upon the assembly of young men together; for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.
which also they did, sending it to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.