UBS Greek Dictionary Article

Notes: Whether παλαιότης in RV ROM 7:6 · LV ROM 7:6 · Read together ROM 7:6 is to be classified in Domain 58 or in Domain 67 Time depends upon which of the principal features of meaning seems to be focal. Judgments may obviously differ.

Form 1

Part of speech: noun, f.

Inflections: παλαιότης; -ητος

Related lemmas: παλαιόω

Sense 1: oldness, old, being obsolete

Semantic entry: 67.100

Semantic domains: Time

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

Definition: the state of being old, with the implication of obsolescence

Notes: For a somewhat different interpretation of παλαιότης in RV ROM 7:6 · LV ROM 7:6 · Read together ROM 7:6, see 58.74: παλαιότης.

ROM 7:6: RV ROM 7:6 · LV ROM 7:6 · Read together ROM 7:6

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OET-RV ROM 7:6

6 but now that we’re released from the law which held us—released by dying to it—we can serve in new ways guided by the spirit instead of by the letter of the law.

OET-LV ROM 7:6

6 But right _now we _were _released from the law, having _died _off in which we _were _being _kept, so _that to _be _serving us in newness of_spirit, and not in _oldness of _letter.

Sense 2: old, obsolete, old way

Semantic entry: 58.74

Semantic domains: Nature, Class, Example

Subdomains: New, Old [primarily non-temporal]

Definition: the state of that which is old, obsolete, and hence inferior and unsatisfactory (in contrast with that which is either καινός [source selector 000001][b] or νέος [source selector 000001][b] ‘new,’ 58.71: καινός / 58.71: νέος)