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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"As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age.
But Jacob said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left If harm should befall him on the journey you are taking, then you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow."
Now the eyes of Israel were so dim from age that he could not see Then Joseph brought them close to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
"Go and gather the elders of Israel together and say to them, 'The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, has appeared to me, saying, "I am indeed concerned about you and what has been done to you in Egypt.
'You shall rise up before the grayheaded and honor the aged, and you shall revere your God; I am the LORD.
a nation of fierce countenance who will have no respect for the old, nor show favor to the young.
"May he also be to you a restorer of life and a sustainer of your old age; for your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given birth to him."
"You will come to the grave in full vigor, Like the stacking of grain in its season.
"Wisdom is with aged men, With long life is understanding.
"He deprives the trusted ones of speech And takes away the discernment of the elders.
"Both the gray-haired and the aged are among us, Older than your father.
The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the old men arose and stood.
"Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me? Vigor had perished from them.
"I thought age should speak, And increased years should teach wisdom.
"The abundant in years may not be wise, Nor may elders understand justice.
"The abundant in years may not be wise, Nor may elders understand justice.
And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me, Until I declare Your strength to this generation, Your power to all who are to come.
And even when I am old and gray, O God, do not forsake me, Until I declare Your strength to this generation, Your power to all who are to come.
As for the days of our life, they contain seventy years, Or if due to strength, eighty years, Yet their pride is but labor and sorrow; For soon it is gone 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 begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.
Even to your old age I will be the same, And even to your graying years I will bear you! I have done it, and I will carry you; And I will bear you and I will deliver you.
"I was angry with My people, I profaned My heritage And gave them into your hand. You did not show mercy to them, On the aged you made your yoke very heavy.
But I am full of the wrath of the LORD; I am weary with holding it in "Pour it out on the children in the street And on the gathering of young men together; For both husband and wife shall be taken, The aged and the very old.
And this they did, sending it in charge of Barnabas and Saul to the elders.