παλαιός
old
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
11 distinct verses where G3820 appears in the Accusative case, across 7 books. Filtered view — show all forms. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 2 verses
- Matthew 9:17 παλαιούς adj acc pl masc Neither do people put new wine into old wineskins, or else the skins would burst, and the wine be spilled, and the skins ruined. No, they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved."
- Matthew 13:52 παλαιά adj acc pl neut He said to them, "Therefore, every scribe who has been made a disciple in the Kingdom of Heaven is like a man who is a householder, who brings out of his treasure new and old things."
Mark 2 verses
- Mark 2:21 παλαιόν παλαιοῦ adj acc sg neut adj gen sg neut No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment, or else the patch shrinks and the new tears away from the old, and a worse hole is made.
- Mark 2:22 παλαιούς adj acc pl masc No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine pours out, and the skins will be destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins."
Luke 3 verses
- Luke 5:36 παλαιόν παλαιῷ adj acc sg neut adj dat sg neut He also told a parable to them. "No one puts a piece from a new garment on an old garment, or else he will tear the new, and also the piece from the new will not match the old.
- Luke 5:37 παλαιούς adj acc pl masc No one puts new wine into old wineskins, or else the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.
- Luke 5:39 παλαιὸν παλαιὸς adj acc sg masc adj nom sg masc No man having drunk old wine immediately desires new, for he says, 'The old is better.'"
1 Corinthians 1 verse
Ephesians 1 verse
Colossians 1 verse
1 John 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
παλαιος (palaiós) is a Greek adjective most often rendered “old.” Debuting at Matthew 9:16, it then recurs through the corpus. With 15 verses in 9 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. From the same root come παλαι, παλαιοτης and παλαιοω. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3820 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 15
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 15 distinct verses.
- 9 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 9 of 27 New Testament books.
- #644
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 644 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 15 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 15 distinct verses.
- Gospels 8 verses · 53%
- Pauline corpus 6 verses · 40%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 20%
- Johannine 1 verse · 7%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 7%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Old 18×
- American Standard Version: Old 17×
- Berean Standard Bible: Old 18×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Old 19×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3820 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3820 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3820 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3820 across 19 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- old, ancient
- no longer new, worn by use, the worse for wear, old
Word origin
Derived from παλαι (pálai) (G3819) — long ago.
From G3819 ; antique that is not recent worn out : - old.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 10 distinct written forms G3820 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| παλαιούς palaioús | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Masculine | Matthew 9:17 | 3 |
| παλαιὸν palaiòn | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 5:39 | 3 |
| παλαιά palaiá | Adjective, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 13:52 | 2 |
| παλαιόν palaión | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Mark 2:21 | 2 |
| παλαιὰν palaiàn | Adjective, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | 1 Corinthians 5:7 | 2 |
| παλαιὸς palaiòs | Adjective, Nominative, Singular, Masculine | Luke 5:39 | 2 |
| παλαιῷ palaiō̂ | Adjective, Dative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 9:16 | 2 |
| παλαιοῦ palaioû | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Mark 2:21 | 1 |
| παλαιᾶς palaiâs | Adjective, Genitive, Singular, Feminine | 2 Corinthians 3:14 | 1 |
| παλαιᾷ palaiâ | Adjective, Dative, Singular, Feminine | 1 Corinthians 5:8 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3820, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word παλαιος appears 18 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 11 verses in 7 books.
- 18
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 11
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Leviticus 25:22 παλαιός
- Joshua 9:4 παλαιός
- 1 Samuel 7:12 παλαιός
- Job 15:10 παλαιός
- Song of Solomon 7:14 παλαιός
- Jeremiah 45:11 παλαιός
- Daniel 7:9 παλαιός
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3820) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Leviticus 25:22 παλαιός You shall sow the eighth year, and eat of the fruits, the old store; until the ninth year, until its fruits come in, you shall eat the old store.
- Leviticus 26:10 παλαιός You shall eat old store long kept, and you shall move out the old because of the new.
- Joshua 9:4 παλαιός they also resorted to a ruse, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks on their donkeys, and wine-skins, old and torn and bound up,
- Joshua 9:5 παλαιός and old and patched shoes on their feet, and old garments on them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and was become moldy.
- 1 Samuel 7:12 παλαιός Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto has Yahweh helped us.
- Job 15:10 παλαιός With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than your father.
- Song of Solomon 7:14 παλαιός
- Jeremiah 45:11 παλαιός
- Daniel 7:9 παλαιός I saw until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, [and] the wheels of it burning fire.
- Daniel 7:13 παλαιός I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
- Daniel 7:22 παλαιός until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3820) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.