noun · masculine
gerōnos
Strong’sG1088
an old man
stem gerōn-once in the New Testament1 of 10 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.
γέρων, -οντος, ὁ,
[in LXX for זָקֵן;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G1088 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidgher'-own
aged
Fromof uncertain affinity (compare G1094);
King Jamesold.
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
old man, Refs 8th c.BC+
2 γέροντες, οἱ, Elders, Chiefs, κίκλησκεν δὲ γέροντας ἀριστῆας Παναχαιῶν Refs 8th c.BC+; in other states, as at Elis, Refs 4th c.BC+
II as adjective, old, γέρον σάκος Refs 8th c.BC+; οἶνος Refs 4th c.BC+; πέπλος, λέμβος, Refs 3rd c.BC+: rarely in Prose, οἱ γέροντες τῶν ἰχθύων Refs 4th c.BC+; of stags, Refs; Ἀντίγονος ὁ γ. Antigonus the Elder, Refs 5th c.BC+
III part of the spinning-wheel, Refs 5th c.BC+. (Sanskrit járant- 'old', járati 'render infirm'; compare γέρας.)
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 nominative | gerōnos1×γέρων | gerōnois |
| object accusative | gerōnon | gerōnoin |
| direct address vocative | gerōnor | gerōnoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | gerōnou | gerōnoiu |
| to, for dative | gerōno | gerōnoi |
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
gerōno 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
gerōnos“old”subjectnominative singular1×
John 3:4… tos Nikodēmos; Pōs dunotō anthrōpos gennira gerōnos arōntos? mē dunotō eis tan koilian …… man be born when he is old?” Nicodemus asked. “Can he enter his …