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 befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall 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 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:
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour 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 shew favour to the young:
And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.
Thou shalt come to thy grave in a full age, like as a shock of corn cometh in in his 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 grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was 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 grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy 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 labour 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 unto 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 hoar 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 mine inheritance, and given them into thine hand: thou didst shew 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.