G1095: γηράσκω (gēráskō)

G1095 γηράσκω (gēráskō)

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Quick Definition

γηράσκω v. I become old, grow old

Strong's Definition

from 1094; to be senescent

KJV Usage: be (wax) old

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

γηράσκω (G1095)

verb | γέρων · γερουσία · γῆρας

67.105 · Time · Duration of Time without Reference to Points or Units of Time: Time, Spend Time, Always, Eternal, Old, Immediately, Young

to grow old, to become old to become old in age (referring to living beings)

JHN 21:18 · HEB 8:13

¹ JHN 21:18 It is also possible to treat γηράσκω in Domain 23 Physiological Processes and States, but the focus in JHN 21:18 seems to be more upon duration of time than upon a physiological state.

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Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

γηράσκω gēraskō 2x

to be or become old, Jn. 21:18; Heb. 8:13*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

γηράσκω (also γηράω; < γῆρας),

[in LXX chiefly for זקן;]

to grow old: Jo 21:18, He 8:13.†

SYN.: παλαιοῦμαι.

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

γηράσκω. P Oxy VI. 9045 (v/A.D.) ἢ τῆς ὑμετέρας δικαιοκρισί(]ας καθαρότης πάντως κἀμὲ ἐλεήσει τὸν γεγηρακότα, “the purity of your righteous judgement will surely pity me, an old man” (Edd). MGr yepv@ with aor. ἐγέρασα, the ἢ unchanged in pronunciation, attests the verb’s continuance.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

γηράσκω (gēraskō) — to grow old. γηράσκω, future γηράσομαι [ᾱ] [Refs 5th c.BC+]; γηράσω [Refs 5th c.BC+]: poetry infinitive γηρᾱσέμεν [Refs 4th c.BC+]: aorist ἐγήρᾱσα (κατ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+]participle γηράσασαν (variant{γηρᾶσαν}) [Refs 5th c.BC+]: perfect γεγήρᾱκα [Refs 5th c.BC+]:—also γηράω [Refs 5th c.BC+], participle γηρῶν [Refs 1st c.AD+]aorist 2 (as if from γήρημι or γήρᾱμι) ἐγήρα [Refs 8th c.BC+]; infinitive γηράναι [ᾰ] [Refs 5th c.BC+], participle γηράς [Refs 8th c.BC+], genitive plural [ὑπερ-] γηράντων uncertain in [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; also γηρείς, έντος, [Refs 6th c.BC+]:—middle, γηράσκομαι [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—passive, (ὑπερ-) γηραθείς [Refs 3rd c.AD+]:—grow old, and in aorist and perfect, to be so, κηρύσσων γήρασκε grew old in his office of herald, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of things, ὄγχνη ἐπ᾽ ὄγχνῃ γ. [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—so in middle, [Refs 8th c.BC+]

II. causal in aorist 1 ἐγήρᾱσα, bring to old age, ἐγήρασάν με τροφῇ [Refs 4th c.BC+]; γηράσας πόδα (but perhaps accusative cognate) [Refs 1st c.AD+]