The Greek in Luke 1:7 that is translated as «advanced in years» or similar in English, referring to both Elizabeth and Zacharias, encountered «special problems in Shipibo-Conibo, which counts age by age-grades: baby – child – adolescent – mature – old, with sex-distinction from adolescent on (hence two separate statements must be made), and prefers to use kinship terms instead of pronouns (hence ‘her husband’ must replace ‘he’); this results in ‘that woman was a-little-old-lady, and her husband was a-little-old-man.'»

In the Swabian 2007 translation by Rudolf Paul it is translated as schao ihre Jöhrla auf am Buckel geht, lit. «have their years on their backs.»

See also years (age).