37 occurrences

'Old' in the Bible

Noah was five hundred years old, and Noah became the father of Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

Verse ConceptsBefore The FloodNoahThe Age At Fatherhood

The Nephilim were in the earth in those days, and also after that, when God's sons came in to men's daughters. They bore children to them. Those were the mighty men who were of old, men of renown.

Verse ConceptsGiantsAntediluviansBefore The FloodWarriorsMarital SexAngels As Sons Of GodMarital Sex BetweenAngels Interacting With PeoplePeople Have HonourInterracial MarriageSame Sex Marriageheroes

Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters came on the earth.

Verse ConceptsBefore The Flood

This is the history of the generations of Shem. Shem was one hundred years old and became the father of Arpachshad two years after the flood.

Verse ConceptsBefore The FloodTwo YearsThe Age At FatherhoodDispensationsFloods

So Abram went, as Yahweh had spoken to him. Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed out of Haran.

Verse ConceptsAbrahamFaith, Nature OfAbraham, The Friend Of GodAbraham, Calling And LifeGoing Together

He said to him, "Bring me a heifer three years old, a female goat three years old, a ram three years old, a turtledove, and a young pigeon."

Verse ConceptsGoatsAbrahamdovesCarcass, Literal UsePigeonsAnimals, Types OfHeifersAnimals At Specific Ages

Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.

Verse ConceptsThe Age At Fatherhood

He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with money from any foreigner who is not of your seed.

Verse ConceptsGenerationsBuying and sellingMoney, Uses OfLess Than A Year OldBorn In One's HouseCircumcisionGroups Of Slaves

Abraham was ninety-nine years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Ishmael, his son, was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?"

Verse ConceptsHumourPeople Wearing OutSoliloquyThe Promise Of A BabysexHaving A Babysarah

Yahweh said to Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh, saying, 'Will I really bear a child, yet I am old?'

Verse ConceptsWhy Do Others Do This?The Promise Of A Babysarah

But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the people from every quarter.

Verse ConceptsEnemies Surrounding

The firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.

Verse ConceptsAbsence Of SexFirstborn DaughtersNo One AvailableUnpremeditatedFather And Daughter Relationships

Abraham circumcised his son, Isaac, when he was eight days old, as God had commanded him.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTLess Than A Year OldGod's Orders

Abraham was one hundred years old when his son, Isaac, was born to him.

Verse ConceptsThe Age At FatherhoodThe Promise Of A Babysarah

She said, "Who would have said to Abraham, that Sarah would nurse children? For I have borne him a son in his old age."

Verse ConceptsNursesOld Age, Attainment OfHope For Old PeopleImpossible For PeopleAgesarah

Sarah, my master's wife, bore a son to my master when she was old. He has given all that he has to him.

Verse ConceptsGiving To OthersHope For Old People

Abraham gave up the spirit, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.

Verse ConceptsDeath, Means OfAfterlifeAgingDeath Of The Saints, Examples OfGathered To One's PeopleDeathAge

Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Paddan Aram, the sister of Laban the Syrian, to be his wife.

Verse ConceptsForty YearsNamed Sisters

After that, his brother came out, and his hand had hold on Esau's heel. He was named Jacob. Isaac was sixty years old when she bore them.

Verse ConceptsHeelsGraspingPeople With Apt NamesTwin Brothers

When Esau was forty years old, he took as wife Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.

Verse ConceptsChildren, Bad KidsPolygamy

It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."

Verse ConceptsBlindness, Causes OfOld Age, DisabilitiesEyes, Affected BydisabilitiesOld Age, Attainment OfVisionWeakness, PhysicalDimness Of VisionBehold Me!Others Summoning

Isaac gave up the spirit, and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons, buried him.

Verse ConceptsDeath, Means OfOld Age, Attainment OfDeath Of The Saints, Examples OfGathered To One's PeopleDeath Of A Family MemberDeath Of A FatherFamily Death

This is the history of the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brothers. He was a boy with the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. Joseph brought an evil report of them to their father.

Verse ConceptsThose Who Kept StockHalf brothersParents Being Wrong

Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

Verse ConceptsThirtyTravelAuthority Delegated To People

He asked them of their welfare, and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?"

Verse ConceptsLiving On

We said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.'

Verse ConceptsChildren, needs ofJacob, Life And Character OfPrejudiceSole SurvivorsDeath Of Unnamed IndividualsThose Who LovedExamples Of Love For Children

So Joseph died, being one hundred ten years old, and they embalmed him, and he was put in a coffin in Egypt.

Verse ConceptsAge, Lived Over 100embalmingBurials, FeaturesPreparation For BurialAge At DeathDeath ApproachingImmigrants

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