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Lexicon :: Strong's H2204 - zāqēn

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זָקֵן
Transliteration
zāqēn
Pronunciation
zaw-kane'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 574

Strong’s Definitions

זָקֵן zâqên, zaw-kane'; a primitive root; to be old:—aged man, be (wax) old (man).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x

The KJV translates Strong's H2204 in the following manner: ...old (26x), aged (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 27x
The KJV translates Strong's H2204 in the following manner: ...old (26x), aged (1x).
  1. to be old, become old

    1. (Qal) to be old, become old

    2. (Hiphil) to grow old, show age

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
זָקֵן zâqên, zaw-kane'; a primitive root; to be old:—aged man, be (wax) old (man).
STRONGS H2204: Abbreviations
זָקֵן verb be or become old (compare, according to Thes, Arabic bdb027807 a she-camel that lets her lower lip hang down, see Lane968; bdb027808 decrepit man) —
Qal Perfect 3rd person masculine singular זָקֵן Genesis 18:12 + 14 times (often hard to distinguished from predicate adjective זָקֵן which see); 3rd person feminine singular זָֽקְנָה Proverbs 23:22; 2nd person masculine singular זָקַנְתָּ 1 Samuel 8:5; זָקַ֫נְתָּה Joshua 13:1; 1st person singular זָקַנְתִּי Joshua 23:2 + 3 times; זָקַנְ֑תִּי Genesis 18:13; Genesis 27:2; Imperfect וַיִּזְקַן 2 Chronicles 24:15; — be (or become) old Genesis 18:12, 13; Genesis 19:31; Genesis 27:1, 2 (all J), 1 Samuel 2:22; 1 Samuel 4:18; 1 Samuel 8:1; 1 Samuel 8:5; 1 Samuel 12:2; 1 Samuel 17:12; 2 Samuel 19:33; 1 Kings 1:1, 15; 2 Kings 4:14; also Genesis 24:1 (|| בא בימים), so Joshua 13:1 (twice in verse); Joshua 23:1, 2(|| here בָּאתִי בימים), 1 Chronicles 23:1 (|| שָׂבַע ימים), 1 Chronicles 24:15 (|| id.); Proverbs 23:22; Psalm 37:25 (opposed to || היה נער); note especially זָקַנְתִּי מִהְיוֺת לאישׁ Ruth 1:12 I am too old to belong to a man (husband).
Hiph. only Imperfect 3rd person masculine singular יַזְקִין inchoate shew age, grow old = senescere Ew§ 122 c, compare Di; of youth Proverbs 22:6; of tree-root Job 14:8.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

18:12; 18:12; 18:13; 18:13; 19:31; 24:1; 27:1; 27:2; 27:2

Joshua

13:1; 13:1; 23:1; 23:2; 23:2

Ruth

1:12

1 Samuel

2:22; 4:18; 8:1; 8:5; 8:5; 12:2; 17:12

2 Samuel

19:33

1 Kings

1:1; 1:15

2 Kings

4:14

1 Chronicles

23:1; 24:15

2 Chronicles

24:15

Job

14:8

Psalms

37:25

Proverbs

22:6; 23:22; 23:22

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2204 matches the Hebrew זָקֵן (zāqēn),
which occurs 27 times in 26 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:12 - So Sarah laughed to herself [when she heard the LORDS words], saying, “After I have become old, shall I have pleasure and delight, my lord (husband) being also old?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:13 - And the LORD asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh [to herself], saying, ‘Shall I really give birth [to a child] when I am so old?’
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 19:31 - The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is aging, and there is not a man on earth [available] to be intimate with us in the customary way [so that we may have children].
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:1 -

Now Abraham was old, [well] advanced in age; and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:1 -

Now when Isaac was old and his eyes were too dim to see, he called his elder [and favorite] son Esau and said to him, “My son.” And Esau answered him, “Here I am.”

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 27:2 - Isaac said, “See here, I am old; [fn]I do not know [fn]when I may die.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:1 -

Now Joshua was [fn]old and advanced in years, and the LORD said to him, “You have grown old and advanced in years, and very [fn]substantial portions of the land remain to be possessed.

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:1 -

A long time after that, when the LORD had given Israel rest from all their enemies [fn]on every side, and Joshua had grown old and [fn]advanced in years,

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:2 - that Joshua called all Israel, their elders and their heads and their judges and their officers, and said to them, “I am old and advanced in years.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:12 - “Go back, my daughters, go, for I am too old to have a husband. If I said I have hope, and if I actually had a husband tonight and even gave birth to sons,
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 2:22 -

Now Eli was very old; and he heard about everything that his sons were doing to all [the people of] Israel, and how they were lying with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting (tabernacle).

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 4:18 - When he mentioned the ark of God, Eli fell off the seat backwards by the side of the [city] gate. His neck was broken and he died, for he was old and heavy. He had judged Israel for forty years.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:1 -

And it came about when Samuel was old that he appointed his sons as judges over Israel.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 8:5 - and said to him, “Look, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint us a king to judge us [and rule over us] like all the other nations.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:2 - “And now, here is the king walking before you. As for me, I am old and gray, and here are my sons with you. I have walked before you from my childhood to this day.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:12 -

Now David was the son of the [fn]Ephrathite of Bethlehem in Judah, named Jesse, who had eight sons. Jesse was old in the days of Saul, advanced in years among men.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:32 - Barzillai was a very old man, eighty years old; and he had provided the king with food while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very great and wealthy man.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:1 -

Now King David was [fn]old, advanced in years; they covered him with clothes, but he could not get warm.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 1:15 -

So Bathsheba went to the king in his bedroom. Now the king was very old and weak, and Abishag the Shunammite was attending the king.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:14 - Later Elisha said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Well, she has no son and her husband is old.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 23:1 -

When David reached old age, he made his son Solomon king over Israel.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:15 -

Now when Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, he died. He was a hundred and thirty years old at his death.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 14:8 -

“Though its roots grow old in the earth

And its stump dies in the dry soil,

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 37:25 -

I have been young and now I am old,

Yet I have not seen the righteous (those in right standing with God) abandoned

Or his descendants pleading for bread.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 22:6 -

Train up a child in the way he should go [teaching him to seek God’s wisdom and will for his abilities and talents],

Even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 23:22 -

Listen to your father, who sired you,

And do not despise your mother when she is old.

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