2001 Translation

PALAIOS, palaios

Sounds Like: pa-LAI-os

Translations: old, ancient, former

From the root: ΠΑΛΑΙΟΣ

Part of Speech: Adjective

Explanation: This word describes something as old, ancient, or belonging to a former time. It is often used to refer to things that are worn out or obsolete due to age, but can also simply mean 'of long standing' or 'from a long time ago'. In the provided context, it is famously used in the phrase 'Ancient of Days' (Παλαιός Ἡμερῶν), referring to God.

Inflection: Nominative, Masculine, Singular

Strong’s number: G3820 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:52, 6:11

Codex Sinaiticus

• Job — 15:10
• Luke — 5:39
• Romans — 6:6

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 28:11
• Book Four — 6:36

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 3:1, 11:2, 31:2

Life of Flavius Josephus, The

• The Life of Flavius Josephus — 38:192

Mathetes

• Letter to Diognetus — 11:4

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Job — 15:10
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 7:9, 7:22
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 7:9, 7:13

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Luke — 5:39
• Romans — 6:6

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΠΑΛΑΙΟΣ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΠΑΛΑΙΑΝ — old, ancient, former, a former
• ΠΑΛΑΙΑΣ — old, ancient, former, of old, of ancient times
• ΠΑΛΑΙΟΙ — old, ancient, former, a former
• ΠΑΛΑΙΟΙΣ — old, ancient, former, of old, of ancient things
• ΠΑΛΑΙΟΝ — old, ancient, former, an old thing, the old
• ΠΑΛΑΙΟΤΑΤΑ — oldest, most ancient, most antiquated, most worn out
• ΠΑΛΑΙΟΤΑΤΟΝ — oldest, most ancient, the oldest, the most ancient
• ΠΑΛΑΙΟΤΑΤΟΥ — (of) oldest, (of) most ancient, (of) very old
• ΠΑΛΑΙΟΤΑΤΩΝ — of the oldest, of the most ancient
• ΠΑΛΑΙΟΤΕΡΑ — older, more ancient, former, earlier
• ΠΑΛΑΙΟΤΕΡΟΙΣ — older, more ancient, more aged, more old
• ΠΑΛΑΙΟΤΕΡΩΝ — older, of older things, of older ones, more ancient, of more ancient things, of more ancient ones
• ΠΑΛΑΙΟΥ — of old, of ancient, old, ancient, former
• ΠΑΛΑΙΟΥΣ — old, ancient, former, worn out
• ΠΑΛΑΙΩΝ — of old, of ancient, of former, of worn out
• ΠΑΛΕΩΣΙΝ — old, ancient, former, worn out

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