LONGEVITY

LONGEVITY. → General scriptures concerning Ge 6:3; Ex 20:12; 1Ki 3:11-14; Job 5:26; Ps 21:4; 34:11-13; 90:10; 91:16; Pr 3:1,2,16; 9:11; 10:27; Isa 65:20; 1Pe 3:10,11 → See OLD AGE → INSTANCES OF
* Adam, nine-hundred and thirty years Ge 5:5
* Seth, nine-hundred and twelve years Ge 5:8
* Enos, nine-hundred and five years Ge 5:11
* Cainan, nine-hundred and ten years Ge 5:14
* Mahalaleel, eight-hundred and ninety-five years Ge 5:17
* Jared, nine-hundred and sixty-two years Ge 5:20
* Enoch, three-hundred and sixty-five years Ge 5:23
* Methuselah, nine-hundred and sixty-nine years Ge 5:27
* Lamech, seven-hundred and seventy-seven years Ge 5:31
* Noah, nine-hundred and fifty years Ge 9:29
* Shem, six-hundred years Ge 11:10,11
* Arphaxad, four-hundred and thirty-eight years Ge 11:12,13
* Salah, four-hundred and thirty-three years Ge 11:14,15
* Eber, four-hundred and sixty-four years Ge 11:16,17
* Peleg, two-hundred and thirty-nine years Ge 11:18,19
* Reu, two-hundred and thirty-nine years Ge 11:20,21
* Serug, two-hundred and thirty years Ge 11:22,23
* Nahor, one-hundred and forty-eight years Ge 11:24,25
* Terah, two-hundred and five years Ge 11:32
* Job, lived one-hundred and forty years after his ordeal, and then he died at a very great age, Job 42:16,17
* Sarah, one-hundred and twenty-seven years Ge 23:1
* Abraham, one-hundred and seventy-five years Ge 25:7
* Isaac, one-hundred and eighty years Ge 35:28
* Jacob, one-hundred and forty-seven years Ge 47:28
* Joseph, one-hundred and ten years Ge 50:26
* Amram, one-hundred and thirty-seven years Ex 6:20
* Aaron, one-hundred and twenty-three years Nu 33:39
* Moses, one-hundred and twenty years De 31:2; 34:7
* Joshua, one-hundred and ten years Jos 24:29
* Eli, ninety-eight years 1Sa 4:15
* Barzillai, eighty years 2Sa 19:32
* Jehoiada, one-hundred and thirty years 2Ch 24:15
* Anna, older than eighty-four years Lu 2:36,37
* Paul, the aged one Phm 1:9

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longevity. Longevity, n. great length or extent of life, age

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Lon‐gev″i‐ty (?), n. [[L. longaevitas. See Longevous.]] Long duration of life; length of life. The instances of longevity are chiefly amongst the abstemious. Arbuthnot.