Palaioo means “decay” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H3822 — lebaoth in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G3822 παλαιόω (palaioo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. palaioo (pal-ai-oh'-o) v. 1. to make (passively, become) worn out, or declare obsolete [from G3820] It has 31 linked Bible usages across 17 books. Visible English usage signals include wax and decayeth. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
palaioo (pal-ai-oh'-o) v. 1. to make (passively, become) worn out, or declare obsolete [from G3820] KJV: decay, make (wax) old Root(s): G3820
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G3822. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to make old
Usage: παλαιόω, -ῶ (παλαιός), [in LXX chiefly for בָּלָה, pi., in pass. for בִּי qal. ;] to make or declare old: Heb.8:13; pass., to become old: of things worn out by time and use (cf. Jhn.9:13, Isa.50:9, al., and see: παλαιός), Luk.12:33, Heb.1:11" (LXX) ; τὸ παλαιούμενον, Heb.8:13 (where this and the act., see supr., may have the sense of abrogate, see LS, Zorell, see word).† SYN.: γηράσκω (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render palaioo, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and New Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G3822 (παλαιόω) appears 27 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
3 indexed usages in New Testament.
Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
22 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
it is a leprosy waxing old in the skin of the flesh; and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall separate him, because he is unclean.
Yet the Lord God has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.
And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.
6 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Forsake not an old friend; For the new is not comparable to him: A new friend is as new wine; When it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
Be steadfast in thy covenant, and be conversant therein, And wax old in thy work.
All flesh waxeth old as a garment: For the covenant from the beginning is, Thou shalt die the death.
First 31 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G3822.
it is a leprosy waxing old in the skin of the flesh; and the priest shall pronounce him unclean, and shall separate him, because he is unclean.
Yet the Lord God has not given you a heart to know, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, until this day.
And old shoes and clouted upon their feet, and old garments upon them; and all the bread of their provision was dry and mouldy.
are the skins of wine which we filled when new, and they are rent; and our garments and our shoes are worn out because of the very long journey.
Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
Who wears out the mountains, and men know it not: Who overturns them in anger.
I am as that which waxes old like a bottle, Or like a moth-eaten garment.
And verily a mountain falling will utterly be destroyed, And a rock shall be worn out of its place.
Wherefore do the ungodly live, And grow old even in wealth?
They were afraid, they answered no longer; They gave up their speaking.
Mine eye is troubled because of my wrath; I am worn out because of all my enemies.
The strange children waxed old, And fell away from their paths through lameness.
Because I kept silence, my bones waxed old, From my crying all the day.
They have laid them as sheep in Hades; death shall feed on them; And the upright shall have dominion over them in the morning, And their help shall fail in Hades from their glory.
They shall perish, but thou remainest: And they all shall wax old as a garment; And as a vesture shalt thou fold them, and they shall be changed.
Behold, the Lord, the Lord, will help me; who will hurt me? behold, all ye shall wax old as a garment, and a moth shall devour you.
Lift up your eyes to the sky, and look on the earth beneath: for the sky was darkened like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and the inhabitants shall die in like manner: but my righteousness shall not fail.
They shall by no means build, and others inhabit; and they shall by no means plant, and others eat: for as the days of the tree of life shall be the days of my people, they shall long enjoy the fruits of their labors.
He has made old my flesh and my skin; He has broken my bones.
And every fruit tree shall grow by the river, even on the bank of it on this side and on that side: they shall not decay upon it, neither shall their fruit fail: they shall bring forth the firstfruit of their early crop, for these their waters come forth of the sanctuary: and their fruit shall be for meat, and their foliage for health.
And he shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change times and law: and power shall be given into his hand for a time and times and half a time.
Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that brings glad tidings, and publishes peace! O Judah, keep thy feasts, pay thy vows: for they shall no more pass through thee to thy decay.
Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
Forsake not an old friend; For the new is not comparable to him: A new friend is as new wine; When it is old, thou shalt drink it with pleasure.
Be steadfast in thy covenant, and be conversant therein, And wax old in thy work.
All flesh waxeth old as a garment: For the covenant from the beginning is, Thou shalt die the death.
How happeneth it, Israel, that thou art in thine enemies’ land, that thou art waxen old in a strange country, that thou art defiled with the dead,
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G3822, grouped by book.
Palaioo (Strong's G3822) is a Greek word most simply glossed "decay". palaioo (pal-ai-oh'-o) v. 1. to make (passively, become) worn out, or declare obsolete [from G3820]
This page currently indexes 31 linked usages for Strong's G3822 across 17 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G3822 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as wax and decayeth. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 22 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 6 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G3822, with linked reader references where each row is available.