2 Samuel 19:32

19:32 But Barzillai was very old – eighty years old, in fact – and he had taken care of the king when he stayed in Mahanaim, for he was a very rich ¹  man.

Job 1:3

1:3 His possessions ²  included ³  7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys; in addition he had a very great household. ⁴  Thus he ⁵  was the greatest of all the people in the east. ⁶ 

Job 32:9

32:9 It is not the aged ⁷  who are wise,

nor old men who understand what is right.

Luke 1:15

1:15 for he will be great in the sight of ⁸  the Lord. He ⁹  must never drink wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit, even before his birth. ¹⁰ 

¹ tn Heb “great.”

² tn The word means “cattle, livestock, possessions” (see also Gen 26:14). Here it includes the livestock, but also the entire substance of his household.

³ tn Or “amounted to,” “totaled.” The preterite of הָיָה (hayah, “to be”) is sometimes employed to introduce a total amount or an inventory (see Exod 1:5; Num 3:43).

⁴ tn The word עֲבֻדָּה (’avuddah, “service of household servants”) indicates that he had a very large body of servants, meaning a very large household.

⁵ tn Heb “and that man.”

⁶ tn The expression is literally “sons of the east.” The use of the genitive after “sons” in this construction may emphasize their nature (like “sons of belial”); it would refer to them as easterners (like “sons of the south” in contemporary American English). BDB 869 s.v. קֶדֶם says “dwellers in the east.”

³ tn The MT has “the great” or “the many,” meaning great in years according to the parallelism.

⁴ tn Grk “before.”

⁵ tn Grk “and he”; because of the length and complexity of the Greek sentence, the conjunction καί (kai) has not been translated here. Instead a new English sentence is begun in the translation.

⁶ tn Grk “even from his mother’s womb.” While this idiom may be understood to refer to the point of birth (“even from his birth”), Luke 1:41 suggests that here it should be understood to refer to a time before birth.