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. Joshua 6:21 זָקֵ֑ן za.Ken · Describes something

    And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, both young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

  2. Joshua 7:6 וְזִקְנֵ֣י ve.zik.Nei · Describes something

    And Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of Jehovah until the evening, he and the elders of Israel; and they put dust upon their heads.

  3. Joshua 8:10 וְזִקְנֵ֧י ve.zik.Nei · Describes something

    And Joshua arose up early in the morning, and mustered the people, and went up, he and the elders of Israel, before the people to Ai.

  4. Joshua 8:33 וּזְקֵנָ֡יו u.ze.ke.Nav · Describes something

    And all Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, as well the sojourner as the homeborn; half of them in front of mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of Jehovah had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.

  5. Joshua 9:11 זְֽקֵינֵינוּ֩ ze.kei.nei.Nu · Describes something

    And our elders and all the inhabitants of our country spake to us, saying, Take provision in your hand for the journey, and go to meet them, and say unto them, We are your servants: and now make ye a covenant with us.

  6. Joshua 20:4 זִקְנֵ֥י־ zik.Nei- · Describes something

    And he shall flee unto one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

  7. Joshua 23:2 לִזְקֵנָיו֙ liz.ke.Nav · Describes something

    that Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and well stricken in years:

  8. Joshua 24:1 לְזִקְנֵ֨י le.zik.Nei · Describes something

    And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and called for the elders of Israel, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers; and they presented themselves before God.

  9. Joshua 24:31 הַזְּקֵנִ֗ים ha.ze.ke.Nim · Describes something

    And Israel served Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Jehovah, that he had wrought for Israel.

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