noun · neuter
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.;]
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
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.
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 case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | gēraem | gēraeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | gēraeu | gēraeiu |
| to, for dative | gērae1×γήρει | gēraei |
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
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 …