Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2206
זָקָן
zaqanzaw-kawn'
beard
19 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: zâqân
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2206is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 16spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2206
the beard (as indicating age)
The King James renders it: beard.
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
zaqan is rendered "beard". It stands 19 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Five of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Leviticus 13:29If a man or woman has an infection on the head or chin,
- The Greek text spells it sixteen different ways.
The first use
If a man or woman has an infection on the head or chin,
Leviticus 13:29בְזָקָֽן׃
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's nineteen uses are in Leviticus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- beard your4
- beard3
- the beard3
- beard his2
- beard their2
- and beard my1
- beard of1
- in beard1
- on beard its1
- on beard of1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 19, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
16 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
- הַזָּקָ֖ן2
- זָקָ֖ן2
- זְקַנְכֶ֖ם2
- בִּזְקַ֥ן1
- בְזָקָֽן׃1
- בִּזְקָנ֔וֹ1
- הַזָּקָ֥ן1
- וּזְקָנִ֔י1
- זָקָ֛ן1
- זְקַֽן־1
- זְקָנוֹ֙1
- זְקָנֽוֹ׃1
and 4 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular3HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural2HNcmsc/Sp2mp
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2HNcmsc/Sp2ms
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural2HNcmsc/Sp3mp
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcmsc/Sp3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine singular1HC/Ncbsc/Sp1ms
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
Leviticus
five uses
If a man or woman has an infection on the head or chin,
- בְזָקָֽן׃vezakanpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: in beard
the priest shall examine the infection, and if it appears to be deeper than the skin and the hair in it is yellow and thin, the priest must pronounce him unclean; it is a scaly outbreak, an infectious disease of the head or chin.
- הַזָּקָ֖ןhazakanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the beard
On the seventh day he must shave off all his hair—his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and he will be clean.
- זְקָנוֹ֙zekanonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: beard his
You must not cut off the hair at the sides of your head or clip off the edges of your beard.
- זְקָנֶֽךָ׃zekanechanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: beard your
Priests must not make bald spots on their heads, shave off the edges of their beards, or make cuts in their bodies.
- זְקָנָ֖םzekanamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: beard their
1 Samuel
two uses
I went after it, struck it down, and delivered the lamb from its mouth. If it reared up against me, I would grab it by its fur, strike it down, and kill it.
- בִּזְקָנ֔וֹbizkanopreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: on beard its
So he changed his behavior before them and feigned madness in their hands; he scratched on the doors of the gate and let his saliva run down his beard.
- זְקָנֽוֹ׃zekanonoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: beard his
2 Samuel
three uses
So Hanun took David’s servants, shaved off half of each man’s beard, cut off their garments at the hips, and sent them away.
- זְקָנָ֔םzekanamnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: beard their
When this was reported to David, he sent messengers to meet the men, since they had been thoroughly humiliated. The king told them, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”
- זְקַנְכֶ֖םzekankhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: beard your
“Are you well, my brother?” Joab asked Amasa. And with his right hand Joab grabbed Amasa by the beard to kiss him.
- בִּזְקַ֥ןbizkanpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: on beard of
1 Chronicles
one use
When someone came and told David about his men, he sent messengers to meet them, since the men had been thoroughly humiliated. The king told them, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”
- זְקַנְכֶ֖םzekankhemnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: beard your
Ezra
one use
When I heard this report, I tore my tunic and cloak, pulled out some hair from my head and beard, and sat down in horror.
- וּזְקָנִ֔יuzekaniconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine singulartagged: and beard my
Psalms
two uses
It is like fine oil on the head, running down on the beard, running down Aaron’s beard over the collar of his robes.
- הַזָּקָ֥ןhazakanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the beard
- זְקַֽן־zekan-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: beard of
Isaiah
two uses
On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates—the king of Assyria—to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to remove your beard as well.
- הַזָּקָ֖ןhazakanthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the beard
Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.
- זָקָ֖ןzakannoun · masculine singulartagged: beard
Jeremiah
two uses
eighty men who had shaved off their beards, torn their garments, and cut themselves came from Shechem, Shiloh, and Samaria, carrying grain offerings and frankincense for the house of the LORD.
- זָקָ֛ןzakannoun · masculine singulartagged: beard
For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth.
- זָקָ֖ןzakannoun · masculine singulartagged: beard
Ezekiel
one use
“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.
- זְקָנֶ֑ךָzekanechanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: beard your
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.
