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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 16
    spellings

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.

The other 30 Old Testament books never use the word.

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.

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,

    Leviticus 13:29

    • 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.

    Leviticus 13:30

    • 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.

    Leviticus 14:9

    • 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.

    Leviticus 19:27

    • 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.

    Leviticus 21:5

    • 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.

    1 Samuel 17:35

    • 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.

    1 Samuel 21:13

    • 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.

    2 Samuel 10:4

    • 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.”

    2 Samuel 10:5

    • 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.

    2 Samuel 20:9

    • 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.”

    1 Chronicles 19:5

    • 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.

    Ezra 9:3

    • 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.

    Psalms 133:2

    • 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.

    Isaiah 7:20

    • 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.

    Isaiah 15:2

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 41:5

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 48:37

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 5:1

    • 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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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