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 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 is left alone: if mischief shall befall him by the way in which ye go, then will ye 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 to him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.
Go and assemble the elders of Israel, and say to them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared to 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 fear thy 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 to thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thy 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, as a shock of corn cometh in in its season.
With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.
He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
With us are both the gray headed and very aged men, much older than thy father.
The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
Yes, to what might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age had perished?
I said, Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.
Now also when I am old and gray-headed, O God, forsake me not; until I have shown thy strength to this generation, and thy 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 shown thy strength to this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
The days of our years are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty 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 thee: O let me not wander from thy commandments.
Hearken to thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoary hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
I was wroth with my people, I have polluted my inheritance, and given them into thy hand: thou didst show them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy 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 abroad, 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.