γηράω
grow old
Where this word appears
Every passage where γηράω appears in the Greek Septuagint — 7 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 24:36 γηράω And Sarrha my master's wife bore one son to my master after he had grown old; and he gave him whatever he had.
- Genesis 27:1 γηράω And it came to pass after Isaac was old, that his eyes were dimmed so that he could not see; and he called Esau, his elder son, and said to him, My son; and he said, Behold, I am here.
- 1 Samuel 8:1 γηράω And it came to pass when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 24:15 γηράω And Jodae grew old, being full of days, and he died, being one hundred and thirty years old at his death.
- Job 14:8 γηράω For though its root should grow old in the earth, and its stem die in the rock;
- Job 29:18 γηράω And I said, My age shall continue as the stem of a palm tree; I shall live a long while.
- Psalms 36:25 γηράω I was once young, indeed I am now old; yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed seeking bread.
About this word
About this word
γηράω (gēráō), “grow old,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 7 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →
