Old
בָּלֶהStrong’s H1087baleh (ba-leh)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Baleh is the Hebrew word usually translated “worn out”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;”
Meaning
- Worn out, old
How it's translated
- worn out 4
- of the worn out 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 2
- Ezekiel 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
בָּלֶה baleh · old
worn out, old
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “old” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OLD, adjective
- Advanced far in years or life; having lived beyond the middle period, or rather towards the end of life, or towards the end of the ordinary term of living; applied to animals or plants; as an old man; an old age; an old camel or horse; an old tree.“Abraham was seventy five years old when he departed from Haran” Genesis 12:4
- Having been long made or used; decayed by time; as an old garment; an old house.
- Being of long continuance; begun long ago; as an old acquaintance.
- Having been long made; not new or fresh; as old wine.
All definitions
- Being of a former year's growth; not of the last crop; as old wheat; old hay.
- Ancient; that existed in former ages; as the old inhabitants of Britain; the old Romans.
- Of any duration whatever; as a year old; seven years old How old art thou?
- subsisting before something else.
- Long practiced. he is grown old in vice.
- That has been long cultivated; as old land; an old farm; opposed to new land, land lately cleared and cultivated.
- More than enough; great.
- In vulgar language, crafty; cunning.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.