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ἀρχαῖος
archaîos · Greek · Strong's G744 · 11 occurrences
The KJV renders 14 different Hebrew and Greek words as “old”
What it means
original or primeval
from G746 (ἀρχή);
How the KJV renders it
old
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“old”
also renders gérōn (G1088), presbýteros (G4245), palaiós (G3820), pálai (G3819), bâleh (H1087), bᵉlôwʼ (H1094), bên (H1121), ziqnâh (H2209), yâshân (H3465), lâbîyʼ (H3833), ʻôwlâm (H5769), ʻâlam (H5957), qedem (H6924)
Answers that weigh this word
- Is the seventh-day Sabbath binding on Gentiles?
- Will there be a literal thousand-year reign (the millennium)?
- What does it mean to be born again?
- Is the Christian Sabbath Saturday or Sunday?
- Are the clean and unclean food laws of Leviticus 11 binding on Christians?
- What did the Jerusalem Council require Gentiles to abstain from?
Where it appears
11 occurrences in the Greek text.
2 Corinthians 5:17 · A-NPN
Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new.
2 Peter 2:5 · A-GSM
and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly,
Acts 15:7 · A-GPF
When there had been much discussion, Peter rose up and said to them, “Brothers, you know that a good while ago God made a choice among you that by my mouth the nations should hear the word of the Good News and believe.
Acts 15:21 · A-GPF
For Moses from generations of old has in every city those who preach him, being read in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
Acts 21:16 · A-DSM
Some of the disciples from Caesarea also went with us, bringing one Mnason of Cyprus, an early disciple, with whom we would stay.
Luke 9:8 · A-GPM
and by some that Elijah had appeared, and by others that one of the old prophets had risen again.
Luke 9:19 A-GPMMatthew 5:21 A-DPMMatthew 5:33 A-DPMRevelation 12:9 A-NSMRevelation 20:2 A-NSM
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