Old
בְּלוֹאStrong’s H1094belo (be-lo)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Belo is the Hebrew word usually translated “worn out things of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“So Ebedmelech took the men with him, and went into the house of the king under the treasury, and took thence old cast clouts and old rotten rags, and let them down by cords into the dungeon to Jeremiah.”
Meaning
- Worn out things, rags
How it's translated
- worn out things of 2
- and worn out things of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
בְּלוֹא belo · old
worn out things, rags
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.