Strong's Concordance
géraskó: to grow old
Original Word: γηράσκωPart of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: géraskó
Phonetic Spelling: (ghay-ras'-ko)
Short Definition: I become old, grow old
Definition: I become old, grow old.
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1095: γηράσκωγηράσκω or
γηράω: 1 aorist
ἐγήρασα; from
Homer down; (cf.
Winers Grammar, 92 (88); Donaldson, New Crat. § 387);
to grow old:
John 21:18; of things, institutions, etc.,
to fail from age, be obsolescent:
Hebrews 8:13 (to be deprived of force and authority; (here associated with
παλαιουμενος — the latter (used only of things) marking the lapse of time, while
γηρασκων carries with it a suggestion of the waning strength, the decay, incident to old age (cf.
Schmidt, chapter 46, 7;
Theophrastus, caus. pl. 6, 7, 5):
that which is becoming old and faileth for age etc.)).
