Greek adjective · G3820
παλαιός
palaiospal-ah-yos'
old
19 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: palaiós
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3820is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 27New Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3820
antique, i.e. not recent, worn out
The King James renders it: old.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
palaios is rendered "old". It stands 19 times in the Greek text, across nine books.
- Five of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 9:16No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the patch will pull away from the garment, and a worse tear will result.
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the patch will pull away from the garment, and a worse tear will result.
Matthew 9:16παλαιῷ
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's nineteen uses are in Luke.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- old19
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 19, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- παλαιὸν3
- παλαιούς3
- παλαιὰν2
- παλαιόν2
- παλαιὸς2
- παλαιῷ2
- παλαιά1
- παλαιᾷ1
- παλαιά.¶1
- παλαιᾶς1
- παλαιοῦ1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · accusative (object) · masculine plural3A-APM
- adjective · accusative (object) · masculine singular3A-ASM
- adjective · accusative (object) · feminine singular2A-ASF
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter singular2A-ASN
- adjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular2A-DSN
- adjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singular2A-NSM
- adjective · accusative (object) · neuter plural1A-APN
- adjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singular1A-DSF
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singular1A-GSF
- adjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter singular1A-GSN
- adjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singular1A-NSF
Matthew
three uses
No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. For the patch will pull away from the garment, and a worse tear will result.
- παλαιῷpalaioadjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: old
Neither do men pour new wine into old wineskins. If they do, the skins will burst, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, they pour new wine into new wineskins, and both are preserved.”
- παλαιούςpalaiousadjective · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: old
Then He told them, “For this reason, every scribe who has been discipled in the kingdom of heaven is like a homeowner who brings out of his storeroom new treasures as well as old.”
- παλαιά.¶palaiaadjective · accusative (object) · neuter pluraltagged: old
Mark
three uses
No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment. If he does, the new piece will pull away from the old, and a worse tear will result.
- παλαιόνpalaionadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: old
- παλαιοῦpalaiouadjective · genitive (“of”) · neuter singulartagged: old
And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined. Instead, new wine is poured into new wineskins.”
- παλαιούςpalaiousadjective · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: old
Luke
five uses
He also told them a parable: “No one tears a piece of cloth from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will tear the new garment as well, and the patch from the new will not match the old.
- παλαιόνpalaionadjective · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: old
- παλαιῷpalaioadjective · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: old
And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will spill, and the wineskins will be ruined.
- παλαιούςpalaiousadjective · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: old
And no one after drinking old wine wants new, for he says, ‘The old is better.’”
- παλαιὸνpalaionadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: old
- παλαιὸςpalaiosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: old
Romans
one use
We know that our old self was crucified with Him so that the body of sin might be rendered powerless, that we should no longer be slaves to sin.
- παλαιὸςpalaiosadjective · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: old
1 Corinthians
two uses
Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
- παλαιὰνpalaianadjective · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: old
Therefore let us keep the feast, not with the old bread, leavened with malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and of truth.
- παλαιᾷpalaiaadjective · dative (“to / for”) · feminine singulartagged: old
2 Corinthians
one use
But their minds were closed. For to this day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant. It has not been lifted, because only in Christ can it be removed.
- παλαιᾶςpalaiasadjective · genitive (“of”) · feminine singulartagged: old
Ephesians
one use
to put off your former way of life, your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires;
- παλαιὸνpalaionadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: old
Colossians
one use
Do not lie to one another, since you have taken off the old self with its practices,
- παλαιὸνpalaionadjective · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: old
1 John
two uses
Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old one, which you have had from the beginning. This commandment is the message you have heard.
- παλαιὰνpalaianadjective · accusative (object) · feminine singulartagged: old
- παλαιάpalaiaadjective · nominative (subject) · feminine singulartagged: old
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
