'Old' in the Bible
When Noah {was five hundred years old}, Noah fathered Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Noah {was six hundred years old} when the flood waters came upon the earth.
These are the generations of Shem. When Shem {was one hundred years old}, he fathered Arphaxad, two years after the flood.
And Abram went [out] as Yahweh had told him, and Lot went with him. Now Abram {was seventy-five years old} when he went out from Haran.
And [as for] you, you shall go to your ancestors in peace; you shall be buried in a good old age.
And Abram [was] eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
When Abram [was] ninety-nine years old Yahweh appeared to Abram. And he said to him, "I [am] El-Shaddai; walk before me and be blameless
And Abraham fell upon his face and laughed. And he said in his heart, "{Can a child be born to a man a hundred years old}, or {can Sarah bear a child at ninety}?"
Abraham [was] ninety-nine years old when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin.
And Ishmael his son [was] thirteen years old when he circumcised the flesh of his foreskin.
Now Abraham and Sarah [were] old, {advanced in age}; {the way of women} had ceased to be for Sarah.
So Sarah laughed to herself saying, "After I am worn out and my husband is old, shall [this] pleasure be to me?"
Then Yahweh said to Abraham, "What [is] this [that] Sarah laughed, saying, 'Is it indeed true [that] I will bear a child, now [that] I have grown old?'
Before they laid down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, both young and old, all the people {to the last man}, surrounded the house.
And the firstborn [daughter] said to the younger one, "Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to come in to us according to the manner of all the land.
And she conceived, and Sarah bore to Abraham a son in his old age at the appointed time that God had told him.
And Abraham circumcised Isaac his son [when he was] eight days old, as God had commanded him.
And Abraham [was] one hundred years old when Isaac his son was born to him.
And she said, "Who would announce to Abraham [that] Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne a son [to Abraham] in his old age."
Now Abraham [was] old, {advanced in age}, and Yahweh had blessed Abraham in everything.
And Sarah, the wife of my master, has borne a son to my master after her old age. And he has given to him all that he has.
And Abraham passed away and died in a good old age, old and full of years. And he was gathered to his people.
And Isaac was {forty years old} when he took Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel the Aramean of Paddan-Aram, the sister of Laban the Aramean, as his wife.
And afterward his brother came out, and his hand grasped the heel of Esau, so his name was called Jacob. And Isaac {was sixty years old} at their birth.
And [when] Esau was forty years old he took as wife Judith, daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath, daughter of Elon the Hittite.
And it happened [that] when Isaac [was] old and {his eyesight was weak}, he called Esau his older son and said to him, "My son." And he said to him, "Here I [am]."
And he said, "Look, I [am] old; I do not know the day of my death.
And Isaac passed away and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.
These [are] the generations of Jacob. Joseph, [being] seventeen years old, was shepherding the flock with his brothers. Now he [was] a helper with the sons of Bilhah and the sons of Zilpah, the wives of his father. And Joseph brought a bad report of them to his father.
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his sons, for he [was] a son of his old age. And he made a robe with long sleeves for him.
Now Joseph {was thirty years old} when he stood before Pharaoh, the king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh and traveled through the whole land of Egypt.
And {he greeted them} and said, "Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he still alive?"
And we said to my lord, 'We have an aged father, and a younger [brother], the child of his old age, and his brother died, and he alone remains from his mother, and his father loves him.'
Now the eyes of Israel were dim on account of old age; he was not able to see. So he brought them near to him, and he kissed them and embraced them.
So Joseph died, [being] one hundred and ten years old. They embalmed him and he was placed in a coffin in Egypt.
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Zaqen
Qadmowniy
'ethmowl
Bath
Labiy'
`owlam
Qedem
Ri'shown
Rachowq
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Shalash
Shaneh (in pl. only),