Lexicon :: Strong's H2205 - zāqēn

Abraham and Sarah were old and getting on in years.[fn] Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.

Before they went to bed, the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, the whole population, surrounded the house.

Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his household who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,

He took his last breath and died at a good old age, old and contented,[fn] and he was gathered to his people.

He took his last breath and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. His sons Esau and Jacob buried him.

He asked if they were well, and he said, “How is your elderly father that you told me about? Is he still alive? ”

“and we answered my lord, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

Then Joseph went to bury his father, and all Pharaoh’s servants, the elders of his household, and all the elders of the land of Egypt went with him,

“Go and assemble the elders of Israel and say to them: The LORD, the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, has appeared to me and said: I have paid close attention to you and to what has been done to you in Egypt.

“They will listen to what you say. Then you, along with the elders of Israel, must go to the king of Egypt and say to him: The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us go on a three-day trip into the wilderness so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

Then Moses and Aaron went and assembled all the elders of the Israelites.

Moses replied, “We will go with our young and with our old; we will go with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds because we must hold the LORD’s festival.”

Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go, select an animal from the flock according to your families, and slaughter the Passover animal.

The LORD answered Moses, “Go on ahead of the people and take some of the elders of Israel with you. Take the staff you struck the Nile with in your hand and go.

Then Jethro, Moses’s father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and sacrifices to God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses’s father-in-law in God’s presence.

After Moses came back, he summoned the elders of the people and set before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him.

Then he said to Moses, “Go up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders, and bow in worship at a distance.

Then Moses went up with Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders,

He told the elders, “Wait here for us until we return to you. Aaron and Hur are here with you. Whoever has a dispute should go to them.”

“The elders of the community are to lay their hands on the bull’s head before the LORD and it is to be slaughtered before the LORD.

On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron, his sons, and the elders of Israel.

“You are to rise in the presence of the elderly and honor the old. Fear your God; I am the LORD.

The LORD answered Moses, “Bring me seventy men from Israel known to you as elders and officers of the people. Take them to the tent of meeting and have them stand there with you.

Moses went out and told the people the words of the LORD. He brought seventy men from the elders of the people and had them stand around the tent.

Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.

Moses got up and went to Dathan and Abiram, and the elders of Israel followed him.

So the Moabites said to the elders of Midian, “This horde will devour everything around us like an ox eats up the green plants in the field.”

Since Balak son of Zippor was Moab’s king at that time,

The elders of Moab and Midian departed with fees for divination in hand. They came to Balaam and reported Balak’s words to him.

“All of you approached me with your tribal leaders and elders when you heard the voice from the darkness and while the mountain was blazing with fire.

“the elders of his city are to send for him, take him from there, and hand him over to the avenger of blood and he will die.

“your elders and judges are to come out and measure the distance from the victim to the nearby cities.

“All the elders of the city nearest to the victim will wash their hands by the stream over the young cow whose neck has been broken.

“his father and mother are to take hold of him and bring him to the elders of his city, to the gate of his hometown.

“the young woman’s father and mother will take the evidence of her virginity and bring it to the city elders at the city gate.

“But if the man doesn’t want to marry his sister-in-law, she is to go to the elders at the city gate and say, ‘My brother-in-law refuses to preserve his brother’s name in Israel. He isn’t willing to perform the duty of a brother-in-law for me.’

Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, “Keep every command I am giving you today.

“a ruthless nation, showing no respect for the old and not sparing the young.

“All of you are standing today before the LORD your God ​— ​your leaders, tribes, elders, officials, all the men of Israel,

Moses wrote down this law and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who carried the ark of the LORD’s covenant, and to all the elders of Israel.

“Assemble all your tribal elders and officers before me so that I may speak these words directly to them and call heaven and earth as witnesses against them.