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παλαιότης

palaiótēs · G3821 · Greek · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. oldness, old, being obsolete

    The state of being old, with the implication of obsolescence

    Examples

    Romans 7:6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

  2. old, obsolete, old way

    The state of that which is old, obsolete, and hence inferior and unsatisfactory (in contrast with that which is either καινός or νέος ‘new,’)

    Examples

    Romans 7:6 But now we have been released from the Law, having died to that by which we were bound, so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.

How it’s used In 2 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Contrasting words 1 word
καινότης kainótēs · G2538 · newness
Abstract noun denoting the quality or state of being new/fresh, the direct lexical opposite of παλαιότης (oldness/antiquatedness); both are -της abstract nouns forming a natural antonym pair. The ground-truth gloss "renewal (figuratively)" confirms the core concept of newness in contrast to antiquatedness.
In the other Testament 1 word
יָשָׁן yâshân · H3465 · old
Hebrew adjective meaning 'old' in the sense of worn out or no longer fresh; directly parallel to παλαιότης as the abstract noun denoting the state of being old/obsolete
Semantic domains 2 entries
Old, obsolete, old way58.74
This domain covers παλαιότης naming an outdated manner or condition now set aside, as Paul contrasts the believer's new life under the Spirit: “so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.” (Romans 7:6)
Oldness, old, being obsolete67.100
Here παλαιότης names the state of being old or outmoded in time, as Paul contrasts the letter's former way with the Spirit's new way: “so that we serve in newness of the Spirit and not in oldness of the letter.” (Romans 7:6)
Word family 5 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

πάλαι pálai · G3819 · long ago, of long ago, all this time · 7×παλαιός palaiós · G3820 · old · 19×παλαιόω palaióō · G3822 · to make old, to make out of date, to become old · 4×ἔκπαλαι ékpalai · G1597 · long ago, of long ago, since a long time · 2×παλαιότηςpalaiótēs · G3821
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon παλαιοτητος, ἡ (παλαιός), oldness: γράμματος, the old state of life controlled by 'the…
παλαιοτητος, ἡ (παλαιός), oldness: γράμματος, the old state of life controlled by 'the letter' of the law, Rom 7:6; see καινότης, and γράμμα, 2 c. ((Euripides), Plato, Aeschines, Dio Cassius, 72, 8.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
New, Old [primarily non-temporal]1 occurrenceDuration of Time without Reference to Points or Units of Time: Time, Spend Time, Always, Eternal, Old, Immediately, Young1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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