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noun · neuter

Greekγῆρας (gēras)
Biblang

gēraem

Strong’sG1094

old age

stem gēra-once in the New Testament1 of 6 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

γῆρας, Attic, gen. (-αος) -ως, dat. ᾳ; Ion. and κοινή, -εος (-ους), dat. -ει, τό,

[in LXX for שֵׂיבֶה, etc.;]

old age: ἐν γήρει, Lk 1:36.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G1094 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidghay'-ras

senility

Fromakin to G1088;

King Jamesold age.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
γῆρας, τό,
genitive γήραος Refs 8th c.BC+, contraction γήρᾳ Refs 5th c.BC+:—old age, γ. λυγρόν Refs 8th c.BC+; opposed to γ. λιπαρόν, Refs 8th c.BC+; γῆρας ἐκδῦναι, ἀποσείσασθαι, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐπὶ γήρως in old age, Refs 5th c.BC+; σὺν γήρᾳ, ἐν γ. βαρύς, Refs 5th c.BC+, i.e. it never wears out, Refs 4th c.BC+
II cast skin, slough of a serpent, γῆρας ἐκδύνειν Refs 4th c.BC+; of crabs, Refs 4th c.BC+
γῆρος, τό,
={γῆρας}, not found in nominative, genitive γήρους NT+5th c.BC+; γήρεϊ variant cited in Refs 8th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

old age1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence caseone singularmore than one plural
subject or object directgēraemgēraeim
of, belonging to genitivegēraeugēraeiu
to, for dativegērae1×γήρειgēraei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
gērastem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

gērae is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

gērae“old age”to, fordative singular1×

Luke 1:36… su kai autas sullabatē huion en gērae autau, kai houtos mēnos hektos atō …… has conceived a son in her old age, and she who was called barren …