palaios · old

What it means

palaios (παλαιός) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “old”.

Ancient.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Having many years of use or existence, worn by time.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×3
• Mark×3
• Luke×5
• Romans×1
• 1 Corinthians×2
• 2 Corinthians×1
• Ephesians×1
• Colossians×1
• 1 John×2

• Matthew 9:16

  And no one puts a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak; for the patch pulls away from the cloak, and a worse tear results.

• Matthew 9:17

  Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wineskins burst, and the wine pours out, and the wineskins are destroyed; but they put new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”

• Matthew 13:52

  And he said to them, “Therefore every scribe who has been made a disciple for the kingdom of heaven is like a man, a master of a house, who brings out of his treasure new things and old.”

• Mark 2:21

  No one sews a patch of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; otherwise the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made.

• Mark 2:22

  And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and the skins; but new wine into new wineskins.”

• Luke 5:36

  And he was also telling a parable to them: “No one tears a patch from a new garment and puts it on an old garment; otherwise, he will tear the new too, and the patch from the new will not match the old.

• Luke 5:37

  And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise the new wine will burst the skins, and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed.

• Luke 5:39

  And no one who has drunk old wine wants new; for he says, ‘The old is good.’”

• Romans 6:6

  knowing this, that our old man was crucified with him so that the body of sin might be done away with, so that we would no longer serve as slaves to sin;

• 1 Corinthians 5:7

  Clean out the old leaven, so that you may be a new lump, as you are unleavened. For our Passover lamb also has been sacrificed: the Messiah.

• 1 Corinthians 5:8

  So let us celebrate the feast, not with old leaven nor with the leaven of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

• 2 Corinthians 3:14

  But their minds were hardened. For until the present day the same veil remains at the reading of the old covenant, not being lifted, because in the Messiah it is set aside.

• Ephesians 4:22

  that you put off, according to your former way of life, the old man who is being corrupted according to the desires of deceit,

• Colossians 3:9

  Do not lie to one another, since you have stripped off the old man with its practices,

• 1 John 2:7

  Beloved, I am not writing to you a new commandment, but an old commandment that you have had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word that you heard.

And 4 more times.