Strong G3820παλαιός

old

Transliteration
palaios
Pronunciation
pal-ah-yos'
Morphology
Greek Adjective

Definition

From G3819; antique that is not recent worn out: - old.

Detailed definition

παλαιός, -ά, -όν
(πάλαι), [in LXX: Lev.25:22 26:10, Sng.7:13 (14) (יָשֵׁן), יָשֵׁן), Jos.9:4-5, Jer.38:11 (בָּלֶה), etc.;]
old, ancient; opposite to νέος, καινός: οἶνος, Luk.5:3; διαθήκη, 2Co.3:14; ἐντολή, 1Jn.2:7; ζύμη, 1Co.5:7-8; ὁ π. ἄςθρωπος (for similar phrases, see Westc., Eph., 68), Rom.6:6, Eph.4:22, Col.3:9; neut. pl., καινὰ καὶ π., Mat.13:52; of things not merely old, but worn by use (as Jo, l.with, LXX), Mat.9:16-17, Mrk.2:21-22, Luk.5:36-37.†
SYN.: see: ἀρχαῖος (AS)

In the Bible

Strong G3820 appears in 15 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • old15

First verses

  1. Matthew 9:16
    No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse.
  2. Matthew 9:17
    Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.
  3. Matthew 13:52
    Then said he unto them, Therefore every scribe which is instructed unto the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is an householder, which bringeth forth out of his treasure things new and old.
  4. Mark 2:21
    No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.
  5. Mark 2:22
    And no man putteth new wine into old bottles: else the new wine doth burst the bottles, and the wine is spilled, and the bottles will be marred: but new wine must be put into new bottles.
  6. Luke 5:36
    And he spake also a parable unto them; No man putteth a piece of a new garment upon an old; if otherwise, then both the new maketh a rent, and the piece that was taken out of the new agreeth not with the old.
  7. Luke 5:37
    And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.
  8. Luke 5:39
    No man also having drunk old wine straightway desireth new: for he saith, The old is better.
  9. Romans 6:6
    Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
  10. 1 Corinthians 5:7
    Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
  11. 1 Corinthians 5:8
    Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
  12. 2 Corinthians 3:14
    But their minds were blinded: for until this day remaineth the same vail untaken away in the reading of the old testament; which vail is done away in Christ.
  13. Ephesians 4:22
    That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
  14. Colossians 3:9
    Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;
  15. 1 John 2:7
    Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.
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πᾰλαιός, ά, όν,
Aeolic dialect πάλαος [Refs (12th c.AD: Eustathius Episcopus Thessalonicensis 28.33, “epigram Gr.” 992 (from Balbilla))]; Boeotian dialect παληός [Refs (“Etymologicum Magnum” 32.6)]; Laconian dialect παλεός (see. below): regular comparative and superlative παλαιότερος [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 6.53, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.1 codices, παλαιότατος 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 83a, etc.: more frequently παλαίτερος, παλαίτατος (from πάλαι), 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 10.58, “N.” 7.44, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.4, etc.)] [The penultimate is sometimes short in Poets, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 956 (assuming variant), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 497, 1st c.AD: Damocrates Poeta Medicus cited in 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.1049; παλεός γα ναὶ τὸν Κάστορα ἄνθρωπος 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 988)]; in these places παλεός (a form mentioned by Hdn.[Refs 5th c.BC+ (Gr. 2.909, compare 9th c.AD: Theognostus Grammaticus “Can.” 50.3, Scholia 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lys.” [same place], 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus, and corroborated by the Papyrus (4th c.BC) of Timotheus (see. παλεομίσημα, παλεονυμφάγονος)) may be retained or restored).]:)]
I old in years,
I.1 mostly of persons, aged, ἢ νέος ἠὲ παλαιός [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.108; νέοι ἠδὲ παλαιοί 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 1.395, compare 4th-3rd c.BC: Epicurus Philosophus “Epistulae” 3p.59U.; παλαιῷ φωτὶ ἐοικώς 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 14.136)]; π. γέρων, π. γρηῦς, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 13.432, 19.346, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Acharnenses” 676; χρόνῳ π. 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 112; ἐν παλαιτέροισι 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “N.” 3.73; ἔνθα δὴ παλαίτατοι θάσσουσι 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Medea” 68)]: in bad sense, a dotard (μωρός [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus, but σκώπτης 10th c.AD: Suidas Legal icographus), 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 988.)]
I.2 of things, οἶνος [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.340)]; νῆες.. νέαι ἠδὲ π.[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 293; τρὺξ π. καὶ σαπρά 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 1086; [τριήρεις] π. ἀντὶ καινῶν 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 28.4; ὑποδήματα 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Meno” 91d; σπέρματα 4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 7.1.6.)]
II of old date, ancient,
II.1 of persons, ξεῖνος π. an old guest-friend, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 6.215, compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 263, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 212; Ἴλου παλαιοῦ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 11.166; κέρδεα.. οἷ᾽ οὔ πώ τιν᾽ ἀκούομεν οὐδὲ παλαιῶν 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 2.118; Μίνως παλαίτατος ὧν ἀκοῇ ἴς μεν 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.4; οἱ πάνυ π. ἄνθρωποι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 411b)]; οἱ π. the ancients, [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.3; π. ἡμερῶν LXX.Dan.7.9.)]
II.2 of things, λέκτρον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 23.296; παλαιά τε πολλά τε εἰδώς 7.157; καινὰ καὶ π. ἔργα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 9.26; νόμοι 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 778 (Lyric poetry); κατὰ τὸ νόμιμον τὸ π. καὶ ἀρχαῖον 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 6.51; κατὰ τὸν π. λόγον 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Gorgias” 499c; ἡ π. παροιμία [prev. author] “R.” 329a; παλαί᾽ ἂν [εἴη], ἐξ ὅτου 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 493; παλαιᾷ σύντροφος ἁμερᾷ [prev. author] “Aj.” 622 (Lyric poetry))]; of places, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 17 (_anapaest meter_), 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 4, etc.)]; καιροὶ π. ancient times, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (“PPetr.” 2p.15 (3rd c.BC))]; τὸ π. as adverb, anciently, formerly, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 102 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.171, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Cratylus” 401c, etc.)]; ἐκ παλαιοῦ from of old, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.157; ἐκ π. ἐχθρὸς ὢν αὐτοῦ 5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 2.1.5; ἐκ τῶν παλαιῶν 3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 2.102)]; ἐκ παλαιτέρου from older time, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.60; ἐκ παλαιτάτου 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.18; also εὐθὺς ἀπὸ παλαιοῦ [prev. work] 2)]; ἀρχαῖα καὶ παλαιά joined, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 22.14, compare 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator (see. above); παλαιὸν δῶρον ἀρχαίου ποτὲ θηρός 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 555.)]
II.3 of things, also,
II.3.a in good sense, venerable, held in esteem, like Latin antiquus, ἅπερ μέγιστα καὶ παλαιότατα τοῖς ἀνθρώποις [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Antipho Orator 6.4.)]
II.3.b in bad sense, antiquated, obsolete, κωφὰ καὶ π. ἔπη [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 290.)]
II.3.c π. δρᾶμα a drama which has been previously acted, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (“SIG” 1078 lxxxvii (Athens, 4th c.BC).)]
III adverb παλαιῶς in an old way, τὰ καινὰ π. διδάσκειν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-4th c.BC: Socratis et Socraticorum Epistulae “Ep.” 30.9: _comparative_ παλαίτερον)] at an earlier time, [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 8.57, +others)]