יָשָׁןyâshân
old, originally, as it seems, withered, flabby, like a lifeless plant with top hanging down, as if in sleep
Pronunciation: yaw-shawn' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3465
Meanings
Niph`al: substantive old harvest, store (Leviticus 25:22; Isaiah 22:11; Song of Solomon 7:14)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 25:22 When you plant your fields in the eighth year, you will still be eating from the large crop of the sixth year. In fact, you will still be eating from that large crop when the new crop is harvested in the ninth year.
- Leviticus 26:10 You will have such a surplus of crops that you will need to clear out the old grain to make room for the new harvest!
- Nehemiah 3:6 The Old City Gate was repaired by Joiada son of Paseah and Meshullam son of Besodeiah. They laid the beams, set up its doors, and installed its bolts and bars.
- Song of Solomon 7:13 There the mandrakes give off their fragrance, and the finest fruits are at our door, new delights as well as old, which I have saved for you, my lover.
- Isaiah 22:11 Between the city walls, you build a reservoir for water from the old pool. But you never ask for help from the One who did all this. You never considered the One who planned this long ago.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).