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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

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  • Psalms 119:100
    I understand more than the ancients, because I keep thy precepts.
  • Psalms 148:12
    Both young men, and maidens; old men, and children:
  • Proverbs 17:6
    Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.
  • Proverbs 20:29
    The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
  • Proverbs 31:23
    Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.
  • Ecclesiastes 4:13
    Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.
  • Isaiah 3:2
    The mighty man, and the man of war, the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,
  • Isaiah 3:5
    And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
  • Isaiah 3:14
    The LORD will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses.
  • Isaiah 9:15
    The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.