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 [as for] you, you shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
But he said, "My son shall not go down with you, for his brother is dead and he alone remains. [If] harm meets him on the journey that you would take, you would bring down my gray head in sorrow to Sheol."
Now the eyes of Israel were dim on account of old age; he was not able to see. So he brought them near to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
Go and gather the elders of Israel and say to them, 'Yahweh, the God of your ancestors, appeared to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, "I have carefully attended to you and what has been done to you in Egypt."
" '{Before} old age you shall get up, and you shall show respect for an old person; and you shall revere your God; I [am] Yahweh.
{a grim-faced nation} {who does not show respect} to [the] old and [the] young [and] does not show pity.
He shall be for you a restorer of life and a sustainer in your old age, for your daughter-in-law who loves you, who [is] better for you than seven sons, has borne him."
You shall come in maturity to [the] grave, as the raising up of a stack of sheaves in its season.
Wisdom [is] with [the] aged, and understanding [is in] length of days.
He deprives [the] trustworthy of speech, and he takes away [the] discretion of elders.
Both [the] gray-haired and [the] old [are] among us-- {those older than your father}.
Young men saw me and stepped aside, and [the] aged rose up [and] stood.
Moreover, {what use to me is the strength of their hands}? With them, vigor is destroyed.
I thought, 'Let days speak, and let many years teach wisdom.'
[It is] not {the aged} [who] are wise, or [it is not] [the] elders [who] understand justice.
[It is] not {the aged} [who] are wise, or [it is not] [the] elders [who] understand justice.
And even when [I am] old and gray, O God, do not abandon me until I proclaim your {strength} to [this] generation, your power to every [one that] comes [after].
And even when [I am] old and gray, O God, do not abandon me until I proclaim your {strength} to [this] generation, your power to every [one that] comes [after].
As for the days of our years, within them [are] seventy years or if by strength eighty years, and their pride [is] trouble and disaster, for it passes quickly and we fly [away].
With my whole heart I have sought you; do not let me stray from your commands.
Listen to your father--he who {gave you life}, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
Even to [your] old age I [am] he; even to [your] advanced age I myself will support [you]. I myself have made [you], and I myself will carry [you], and I myself will support [you], and I will save [you].
I was angry with my people; I profaned my inheritance, and I gave them into your hand. You did not {give} them mercy; on [the] aged you made your yoke very heavy.
But I am full with the wrath of Yahweh, I struggle to hold [it] in. Pour [it] out on [the] children in the street, and on the assemblies of young men at the same time. For even husband with wife will get trapped, [the] old with [him who is] full of days.
which they also did, sending [the aid] to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.