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. 2 Chronicles 5:2 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 Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of the city of David, which is Zion.

  2. 2 Chronicles 5:4 זִקְנֵ֣י zik.Nei · Describes something

    And all the elders of Israel came: and the Levites took up the ark;

  3. 2 Chronicles 10:6 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. 2 Chronicles 10:8 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. 2 Chronicles 10:13 הַזְּקֵנִֽים׃ ha.ze.ke.Nim · Describes something

    And the king answered them roughly; and king Rehoboam forsook the counsel of the old men,

  6. 2 Chronicles 34:29 זִקְנֵ֥י zik.Nei · Describes something

    Then the king sent and gathered together all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

  7. 2 Chronicles 36:17 זָקֵ֣ן za.Ken · Describes something

    Therefore he brought upon them the king of the Chaldeans, who slew their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary, and had no compassion upon young man or virgin, old man or hoary-headed: he gave them all into his hand.

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