age
part of speech
noun (age, ages); verb (age, ages, aged, ageing or aging)
meaning for a pupil
1) Your age is how many years you have lived. tree →
2) An age is a long period of history, like the Stone Age or the Ice Age. tree →
3) «Ages» means a very long time, as in «I waited for ages». tree →
4) To age is to grow older. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: "Old age" and "well stricken in age" describe long life as a blessing. "Good old age" is promised to the righteous. Age is also the name of a man, the father of Shammah, one of David's mighty men. Interpretation: Tradition sees a long life as a sign of favor and honors the old. The Torah commands rising before the aged. The prophets also show old age bringing weakness, such as failing eyesight and sick feet. In the primary lessons: a number of years; problems compare ages now, in the past and in the future; in history, ages of time; phrases «at the age of», «under age», «for ages», «age group», «the same age»
examples
- Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. (Torah GEN.48.10, JPS 1917) tree →
- And Abraham was old, well stricken in age; and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things. (Torah GEN.24.1, JPS 1917) tree →
- But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age. (Torah GEN.15.15, JPS 1917) tree →
- And after him was Shammah the son of Age the Ararite. (Prophets 2SA.23.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet. (Prophets 1KI.15.23, JPS 1917) tree →
- Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age. (Prophets 1KI.14.4, JPS 1917) tree →
- Tom's age is 9. tree →
- In 5 years, Mia will be twice her brother's age. tree →
- What is the sum of their ages? tree →
- Her father's age is 4 times her age. tree →
- She learned to read at the age of five. tree →
- Children under the age of 12 need an adult. tree →
- We waited ages for the bus. tree →
- Dinosaurs lived long before the Ice Age. tree →
- My cousin and I are the same age. tree →
- Cheese gets stronger as it ages. tree →
- What respect is shown to old age in these days? tree →
note
An age grows by the same number of years for every person. Trap: «in 5 years» adds 5 to every age, and «5 years ago» takes 5 from every age; the difference between two ages stays the same. «Ages» (a long time) is not a number.
In the corpora
- But thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
- And Abraham was old, well stricken in age; and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
- Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see.
- and from the age of fifty years they shall return from the service of the work, and shall serve no more;
- And after him was Shammah the son of Age the Ararite.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «age» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.