Aged
יָשִׁישׁStrong’s H3453yashish (ya-shish)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yashish is the Hebrew word usually translated “aged” and “old”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.”
Meaning
- Aged, old man, aged one
How it's translated
- aged 2
- with aged 1
- and old 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 4
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Job 15:10With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.
- Job 29:8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
- Job 32:6And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.
Hebrew dictionary
יָשִׁישׁ yashish · aged
aged, old man, aged one
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “aged” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
A'GED, adjective
- Old; having lived long; having lived almost the usual time allotted to that species of being; applied to animals or plants; as, an aged man, or an aged oak.
- Having a certain age; having lived; as, a man aged forty years.
All definitions and other forms of “aged”
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.