'Old' in the Bible
Noah was 600 years old when water began to flood the earth.
On the seventeenth day of the second month, when Noah was 600 years old, all the springs of the great deep burst open, the floodgates of the heavens were opened,
So Abram left there, as the LORD had directed him, and Lot accompanied him. Abram was 75 years old when he left Haran.
Now as for you, you'll die peacefully, join your ancestors, and be buried at a good old age.
Abram was 86 years old when Hagar gave birth to Ishmael for Abram.
When Abram was 99 years old, the LORD appeared to Abram and announced, "I am God Almighty. Live in constant awareness that I'm always with you, and be blameless.
Now Sarah was listening at the tent entrance behind him. Abraham and Sarah were old really old and Sarah was beyond the age of childbearing.
That's why Sarah laughed to herself, thinking, "After I'm so old and my husband is old, too, am I going to have sex?"
The LORD asked Abraham, "Why did Sarah laugh and think, "Am I really going to bear a child, since I'm so old?'
Before they could lie down, all the men of Sodom and its outskirts, both young and old, surrounded the house.
One day the firstborn told the younger one, "Our father is old, and there's no man in the land to have sex with us, as everybody else throughout all the earth does.
Sarah conceived and gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age, at the very time that God had told him.
Abraham was 100 years old when his son Isaac was born to him.
She also said, "Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse sons? Yet I have given birth to a son in my husband's old age!"
Now Abraham had grown old, was well advanced in age, and the LORD had blessed Abraham in every way.
My master's wife Sarah gave birth to my master's son in her old age, and Abraham has given him everything that belongs to him.
then passed away, dying at a ripe old age, having lived a full life, and joined his ancestors.
Isaac was forty years old when he married Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the Aramean from Paddan-aram and sister of Laban the Aramean.
After that, his brother came out with his hand clutching Esau's heel, so they named him Jacob. Isaac was 60 years old when they were born.
When Esau was 40 years old, he married Judith, the daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Basemath, the daughter of Elon the Hittite.
Eventually, Isaac grew so old that he could not see. One day, he called his eldest son Esau. "My son," he called out to him.
"Look how old I am! I could die any day now,
when he died and joined his ancestors at a ripe old age. Then his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
When Joseph was seventeen years old, he was helping his brothers tend their flocks. He was a young man at that time, as were the children of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives. But Joseph would come back and tell his father that his brothers were doing bad things. Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his brothers, since he was born to him in his old age, so he had made a richly-embroidered tunic for him.
Joseph was 30 years old when he began to serve Pharaoh, king of Egypt, by traveling throughout the land of Egypt, independent from Pharaoh's oversight.
and we answered Your Excellency, "We have an aged father and a younger child who was born when he was old. His brother is now dead, so he's the only surviving son of his mother. His father loves him.'
"I'm 130 years old," Jacob replied. "My years have turned out to be few and unpleasant, but I haven't yet reached the age my ancestors did during their travels on earth."
He lived for seventeen more years in Egypt, until he was 147 years old.
Joseph continued to live in Egypt, along with his father's household, until he was 110 years old.
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- Ancient (98 instances)
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- Eldest (29 instances)
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Zaqen
Qadmowniy
'ethmowl
Bath
Labiy'
`owlam
Qedem
Ri'shown
Rachowq
Sh@liyshiy
Shalash
Shaneh (in pl. only),