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# יָשִׁישׁ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3453

**aged** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

aged [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3453/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָשִׁישׁ: adj. aged [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3453/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. aged, only Jb (NH once יָשִׁישִׁים old, venerable men, Levy Jastr);—abs. יָשִׁישׁ Jb 15:10; pl. יְשִׁישִׁים 32:6 + 2 times;—aged, as pred. adj. Jb 32:6 (opp. צָעִיר לְיָמִים); as subst. 15:10 (‖ שָׂב); 29:8 (opp. נערים); בִּישִׁישִׁים חָכְמָה 12:12 among aged men is wisdom (‖ אֹרֶךְ יָמִים תְּבוּנָה).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (15 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[are\] aged (1); \[the\] aged (1); aged \[men\] (1).

## In the verses

[Job 12:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.12.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.12.12/#tree)

בִּֽישִׁישִׁ֥ים חָכְמָ֑ה וְאֹ֖רֶךְ יָמִ֣ים תְּבוּנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].with aged.\[people\] wisdom and \[is.with\].length of.days understanding

*JPS 1917:* Is wisdom with aged men, and understanding in length of days? —

[Job 29:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.29.8/#tree)

רָא֣וּנִי נְעָרִ֣ים וְנֶחְבָּ֑אוּ וִֽ֝ישִׁישִׁים קָ֣מוּ עָמָֽדוּ׃

*Word for word:* they saw.me young.men and they.hid.themselves and aged.\[men\] they.rose they.stood

*JPS 1917:* The young men saw me and hid themselves, and the aged rose up and stood;

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3453/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).