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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And you shall go to your fathers in peace; you shall 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 is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in which you go, then shall you bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
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, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:
You shall rise up before the gray headed, and honor the face of the old man, and fear your God: I am the LORD.
A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young:
And he shall be unto you a restorer of your life, and a nourisher of your old age: for your daughter-in-law, who loves you, who is better to you than seven sons, has borne him.
You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in in its season.
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
He takes away the speech of the trustworthy, and takes away the understanding of the aged.
With us are both the gray headed and very aged men, much older than your father.
The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
Yea, how might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom vigor has perished?
I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand justice.
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand justice.
Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed your strength unto this generation, and your power to every one that is to come.
Now also when I am old and gray headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed your strength unto this generation, and your power to every one that is to come.
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
With my whole heart have I sought you: O let me not wander from your commandments.
Hearken unto your father that begat you, and despise not your mother when she is old.
And even to your old age I am he; and even to gray hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
I was angry with my people, I have profaned my inheritance, and given them into your hand: you did show them no mercy; upon the aged have you very heavily laid your yoke.
Therefore I am full of the fury of the LORD; I am weary with holding in: I will 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, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.