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Strong's numbers

זָקֵן (H2205)

zâqên

zaw-kane'

from זָקֵן; old; aged, ancient (man), elder(-est), old (man, men and...women), senator.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

זָקֵן adj. old
1 old, of human beings
2 usu. as subst.
a old man (or woman)
b elder

From Brown, Driver, and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), in the public domain.

171 occurrences

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • 2 Samuel 17:4
    And the saying pleased Absalom well, and all the elders of Israel.
  • 2 Samuel 17:15
    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.
  • 2 Samuel 19:11
    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, even to his house.
  • 1 Kings 8:1
    Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the fathers of the children of Israel, unto king Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD out of the city of David, which is Zion.
  • 1 Kings 8:3
    And all the elders of Israel came, and the priests took up the ark.
  • 1 Kings 12:6
    And king Rehoboam consulted with the old men, that stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, and said, How do ye advise that I may answer this people?
  • 1 Kings 12:8
    But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before him:
  • 1 Kings 12:13
    And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave him;
  • 1 Kings 13:11
    Now there dwelt an old prophet in Bethel; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Bethel: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.
  • 1 Kings 13:25
    And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.