Words the Bible translates as old
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 9 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- zaqenזָקֵןold: advanced in years, and so a senior whose age commands respect or authority
- qedemקֶדֶםancient time: the remote past, the days of old, the earliest times reaching back to the world's beginning
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- east, or what lies in front: the direction of the sunrise, the eastern side of a place, and the lands and peoples that way
- palaiosπαλαιόςold: having been around a long time and no longer new, whether worn out, left in the past, or long established
- archaiosἀρχαῖοςfrom the beginning: belonging to the time when the thing in view started, whether that is the far past or simply the first days of something recent
- zaqenזָקֵןto grow old: to advance in years and become aged
- yashenיָשֵׁןto grow old: to become aged or stale through long standing, said of things kept a long time
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- to sleep: to fall into and rest in full bodily sleep, the deep nightly rest as opposed to light dozing
- yashanיָשָׁןold: held over from an earlier time, whether last season's grain still in store or something that has stood for generations
- balehבָּלֶהoldnot studied yet
- beloבְּלוֹאoldnot studied yet
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