זָקֵן

za.qen · old: elder

Hebrew · Strong's H2205 · Adjective · Sounds like: zaw-kane' · 178 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • old: elder H2205G · a Meaning of 128
  • old H2205H 50

Strong's dictionary

from זָקֵן; old; aged, ancient (man), elder(-est), old (man, men and...women), senator.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
זָקֵן adj. old
1. old, of human beings
2. usu. as subst.
a. old man (or woman)
b. elder

Every occurrence

  1. 1 Kings 8:1 זִקְנֵ֣י zik.Nei · Describes something

    Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers' houses of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of the city of David, which is Zion.

  2. 1 Kings 8:3 זִקְנֵ֣י zik.Nei · Describes something

    And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.

  3. 1 Kings 12:6 הַזְּקֵנִים֙ ha.ze.ke.Nim · Describes something

    And king Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, that had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, What counsel give ye me to return answer to this people?

  4. 1 Kings 12:8 הַזְּקֵנִ֖ים ha.ze.ke.Nim · Describes something

    But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that were grown up with him, that stood before him.

  5. 1 Kings 12:13 הַזְּקֵנִ֖ים ha.ze.ke.Nim · Describes something

    And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him,

  6. 1 Kings 13:11 זָקֵ֔ן za.Ken · Describes something

    Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth-el; and one of his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Beth-el: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them also they told unto their father.

  7. 1 Kings 13:25 הַזָּקֵ֖ן ha.za.Ken · Describes something

    And, behold, men passed by, and saw the body cast in the way, and the lion standing by the body; and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.

  8. 1 Kings 13:29 הַזָּקֵ֔ן ha.za.Ken · Describes something

    And the prophet took up the body of the man of God, and laid it upon the ass, and brought it back; and he came to the city of the old prophet, to mourn, and to bury him.

  9. 1 Kings 20:7 זִקְנֵ֣י zik.Nei · Describes something

    Then the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief: for he sent unto me for my wives, and for my children, and for my silver, and for my gold; and I denied him not.

  10. 1 Kings 20:8 הַזְּקֵנִ֖ים ha.ze.ke.Nim · Describes something

    And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken thou not, neither consent.

  11. 1 Kings 21:8 הַזְקֵנִ֤ים haz.ke.Nim · Describes something

    So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, and that dwelt with Naboth.

  12. 1 Kings 21:11 הַזְּקֵנִ֣ים ha.ze.ke.Nim · Describes something

    And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who dwelt in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, according as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.

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