יָשִׁישׁ
yâshîysh · H3453 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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aged
State in which humans are advanced in age; often associated with wisdom and respectability
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- קוּםto arise 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נוּus 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- חׇכְמָהwisdom 1
- אַתָּהyou 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 1
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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Near synonyms 2 words
- זָקֵן zâqên · H2205 · old, elder
- Both lexemes are genuine age-descriptors ("aged," "ancient," "old") denoting elderliness in persons, representing plausible near-synonyms. יָשִׁישׁ (yâshîysh, H3453) appears to be an intensified or more specific variant ("very aged," "very old") of the general concept זָקֵן (zâqên, H2205) conveys.
- עַתִּיק ʻattîyq · H6267 · taken from the breast, weaned, old
- Both words denote age and antiquity ("very aged, ancient, very old" versus "ancient, drawn"), and are distinct words that could substitute for each other in contexts describing age or antiquity.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Old002001001041
- The word describes advanced age, an aged or very old person, as its glossed sense "very aged man, ancient, very old" directly indicates.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3453. yashish יָשִׁישׁ adjective aged, only Job (Late Hebrew once יָשִׁישִׁים old,…
יָשִׁישׁ adjective aged, only Job (Late Hebrew once יָשִׁישִׁים old, venerable men, Levy Jastr); — absolute יָשִׁישׁ Job 15:10; plural יְשִׁישִׁים Job 32:6 Job 32:2t.; — aged, as predicate adjective Job 32:6 (opposed to לְיָמִים צָעִיר); as substantive Job 15:10 (|| שָׂב); Job 29:8 (opposed to נערים); חָכְמָה בִּישִׁישִׁים Job 12:12 among aged men is wisdom (|| תְּבוּנָה יָמִים אֹרֶח).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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