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. Lamentations 1:19 וּזְקֵנַ֖י u.ze.ke.Nai · Describes something

    I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: My priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls.

  2. Lamentations 2:10 זִקְנֵ֣י zik.Nei · Describes something

    The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust upon their heads; They have girded themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

  3. Lamentations 2:21 וְזָקֵ֔ן ve.za.Ken · Describes something

    The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; Thou hast slaughtered, and not pitied.

  4. Lamentations 4:16 וּזְקֵנִ֖ים vu.ze.ke.nim · Describes something

    The anger of Jehovah hath scattered them; He will no more regard them: They respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders.

  5. Lamentations 5:12 זְקֵנִ֖ים ze.ke.Nim · Describes something

    Princes were hanged up by their hand: The faces of elders were not honored.

  6. Lamentations 5:14 זְקֵנִים֙ ze.ke.Nim · Describes something

    The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.

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