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. Ruth 4:11 וְהַזְּקֵנִ֖ים ve.ha.ze.ke.Nim · Describes something

    And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Jehovah make the woman that is come into thy house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Beth-lehem:

  2. 1 Samuel 2:31 זָקֵ֖ן za.Ken · Describes something

    Behold, the days come, that I will cut off thine arm, and the arm of thy father's house, that there shall not be an old man in thy house.

  3. 1 Samuel 2:32 זָקֵ֛ן za.Ken · Describes something

    And thou shalt behold the affliction of my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel; and there shall not be an old man in thy house for ever.

  4. 1 Samuel 4:3 זִקְנֵ֣י zik.Nei · Describes something

    And when the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Wherefore hath Jehovah smitten us to-day before the Philistines? Let us fetch the ark of the covenant of Jehovah out of Shiloh unto us, that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies.

  5. 1 Samuel 8:4 זִקְנֵ֣י zik.Nei · Describes something

    Then all the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah;

  6. 1 Samuel 11:3 זִקְנֵ֣י zik.Nei · Describes something

    And the elders of Jabesh said unto him, Give us seven days' respite, that we may send messengers unto all the borders of Israel; and then, if there be none to save us, we will come out to thee.

  7. 1 Samuel 15:30 זִקְנֵֽי־ zik.nei- · Describes something

    Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me, that I may worship Jehovah thy God.

  8. 1 Samuel 16:4 זִקְנֵ֤י zik.Nei · Describes something

    And Samuel did that which Jehovah spake, and came to Beth-lehem. And the elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, Comest thou peaceably?

  9. 1 Samuel 28:14 זָקֵן֙ za.Ken · Describes something

    And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a robe. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, and did obeisance.

  10. 1 Samuel 30:26 לְזִקְנֵ֥י le.zik.Nei · Describes something

    And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold, a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of Jehovah:

  11. 2 Samuel 3:17 זִקְנֵ֥י zik.Nei · Describes something

    And Abner had communication with the elders of Israel, saying, In times past ye sought for David to be king over you:

  12. 2 Samuel 5:3 זִקְנֵ֨י zik.Nei · Describes something

    So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Jehovah: and they anointed David king over Israel.

  13. 2 Samuel 12:17 זִקְנֵ֤י zik.Nei · Describes something

    And the elders of his house arose, and stood beside him, to raise him up from the earth: but he would not, neither did he eat bread with them.

  14. 2 Samuel 17:4 זִקְנֵ֥י zik.Nei · Describes something

    And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.

  15. 2 Samuel 17:15 זִקְנֵ֣י zik.Nei · Describes something

    Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.

  16. 2 Samuel 19:11 זִקְנֵ֤י zik.Nei · Describes something

    And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, to bring him to his house.

  17. 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.

  18. 1 Kings 8:3 זִקְנֵ֣י zik.Nei · Describes something

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

  19. 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?

  20. 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.

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