Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2208
זָקֻן
zaqunzaw-koon'
extreme age
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: zâqun
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2208is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H2208
old age
The King James renders it: old age.
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
zaqun is rendered "extreme age". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Four of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 21:2So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.
Genesis 21:2לִזְקֻנָ֑יו
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's four uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- of old ages his2
- old ages2
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 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- זְקֻנִ֥ים1
- זְקֻנִ֖ים1
- לִזְקֻנָ֑יו1
- לִזְקֻנָֽיו׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural2HNcmpa
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HR/Ncmpc/Sp3ms
Genesis
four uses
So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.
- לִזְקֻנָ֑יוlizkunavpreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: of old ages his
She added, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
- לִזְקֻנָֽיו׃lizkunavpreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: of old ages his
Now Israel loved Joseph more than his other sons, because Joseph had been born to him in his old age; so he made him a robe of many colors.
- זְקֻנִ֥יםzekunimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: old ages
And we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
- זְקֻנִ֖יםzekunimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: old ages
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.