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. And if mischief should happen to him by the way you go, then you shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
And the eyes of Israel were dim for age; he could not see. And he brought them near him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
Go, and gather the elders of Israel and say to them, Jehovah the God of your fathers has appeared to me, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, saying, I have surely visited you and have seen what is done to you in Egypt.
You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the old man, and fear your God. I am Jehovah.
a nation fierce of face who shall not regard the person of the old, nor show favor to the young.
And he shall be to you as a restorer of life, and one who cheers your old age. For your daughter-in-law who loves you has borne him, she who is better to you than seven sons.
You shall come to your grave in a full age, like a shock of grain comes in its season.
With the aged is wisdom, and understanding in length of days.
He removes the speech of the men of trust, and takes away the understanding of the aged.
With us are both the gray-headed and aged, mightier than your father as to days.
The young men saw me and hid themselves; and the aged arose and stood up.
Also, what profit for me was the strength of their hands, for full vigor had perished from them?
I said, Days should speak, and the multitude of years should teach wisdom.
It is not the great that are wise, nor the aged who understand judgment.
It is not the great that are wise, nor the aged who understand judgment.
And now when I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not leave me; until I have declared Your strength to this generation, and Your power to everyone who is to come.
And now when I am old and gray-headed, O God, do not leave me; until I have declared Your strength to this generation, and Your power to everyone who is to come.
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by strength they are fourscore years, yet their pride is labor and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.
With all my heart I have sought You; do not let me wander from Your Commandments.
Listen to your father who sired you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
even to old age I am He; and to gray hairs I will bear you. I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
I was angry with My people, I have polluted My inheritance, and given them into your hand. You showed them no mercy; you have very heavily laid your yoke on the aged.
Therefore I am full of the fury of Jehovah; I am weary with holding in; I will pour it out on the children in the street, and on the circle of young men together. For even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with fullness of days.
which they also did, sending to the elders by the hand of Barnabas and Saul.