Hebrew verb · H2204
זָקֵן
zaqenzaw-kane'
be old
27 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: zâqên
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2204is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 12 of 39Old Testament books
- 18spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2204
to be old
The King James renders it: aged man, be (wax) old (man).
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
zaqen is rendered "be old". It stands 27 times in the Hebrew text, across twelve books.
- Six of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 18:12So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
- The Greek text spells it eighteen different ways.
The first use
So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
Genesis 18:12זָקֵֽן׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- he was old12
- I am old6
- he is old3
- and he became old1
- he will be old1
- it will grow old1
- she is old1
- you are old1
- you have become old1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| זָקֵן | zaqen | old: elder | Uses178 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 27, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
18 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- זָקֵ֔ן4
- זָקֵ֣ן4
- זָקֵ֖ן3
- זָקֵֽן׃2
- וַיִּזְקַ֧ן1
- זָקֵ֑ן1
- זָקֵ֥ן1
- זָקְנָ֥ה1
- זָקַ֔נְתָּ1
- זָקַ֙נְתָּה֙1
- זָקַ֑נְתִּי1
- זָ֫קַ֥נְתִּי1
and 6 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular15HVqp3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular6HVqp1cs
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVhi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVqp2ms
- Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqp3fs
Genesis
six uses
So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
- זָקֵֽן׃zakenverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he is old
And the LORD asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Can I really bear a child when I am old?’
- זָקַֽנְתִּי׃zakantiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am old
One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.
- זָקֵ֑ןzakenverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he is old
By now Abraham was old and well along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.
- זָקֵ֔ןzakenverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was old
When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.
- זָקֵ֣ןzakenverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was old
“Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.
- זָקַ֑נְתִּיzakantiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am old
Joshua
four uses
Now Joshua was old and well along in years, and the LORD said to him, “You are old and well along in years, but very much of the land remains to be possessed.
- זָקֵ֔ןzakenverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was old
- זָקַ֙נְתָּה֙zakantahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you are old
A long time after the LORD had given Israel rest from all the enemies around them, when Joshua was old and well along in years,
- זָקֵ֔ןzakenverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was old
he summoned all Israel, including its elders, leaders, judges, and officers. “I am old and well along in years,” he said,
- זָקַ֔נְתִּיzakantiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am old
Ruth
one use
Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,
- זָקַ֖נְתִּיzakantiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am old
1 Samuel
six uses
Now Eli was very old, and he heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
- זָקֵ֣ןzakenverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was old
As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.
- זָקֵ֥ןzakenverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was old
When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as judges over Israel.
- זָקֵ֖ןzakenverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was old
“Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations.”
- זָקַ֔נְתָּzakantaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have become old
Now here is the king walking before you, and I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day.
- זָקַ֣נְתִּיzakantiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am old
Now David was the son of a man named Jesse, an Ephrathite from Bethlehem of Judah who had eight sons in the days of Saul. And Jesse was old and well along in years.
- זָקֵ֖ןzakenverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was old
2 Samuel
one use
Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.
- זָקֵ֣ןzakenverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was old
1 Kings
two uses
Now King David was old and well along in years, and though they covered him with blankets, he could not keep warm.
- זָקֵ֔ןzakenverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was old
So Bathsheba went to see the king in his bedroom. Since the king was very old, Abishag the Shunammite was serving him.
- זָקֵ֣ןzakenverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was old
2 Kings
one use
So he asked, “Then what should be done for her?” “Well, she has no son,” Gehazi replied, “and her husband is old.”
- זָקֵֽן׃zakenverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he is old
1 Chronicles
one use
When David was old and full of years, he installed his son Solomon as king over Israel.
- זָקֵ֖ןzakenverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was old
2 Chronicles
one use
When Jehoiada was old and full of years, he died at the age of 130.
- וַיִּזְקַ֧ןvaiyizkanHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he became old
Job
one use
If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,
- יַזְקִ֣יןyazkinverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will grow old
Psalms
one use
I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
- זָ֫קַ֥נְתִּיzakantiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am old
Proverbs
two uses
Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
- יַ֝זְקִ֗יןyazkinverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be old
Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
- זָקְנָ֥הzakenahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she is old
The letters
Gematria 157· 807 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.