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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.

  • Deuteronomy 22:17
    And, lo, he hath given occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's virginity. And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city.
  • Deuteronomy 22:18
    And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
  • Deuteronomy 25:7
    And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.
  • Deuteronomy 25:8
    Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;
  • Deuteronomy 25:9
    Then shall his brother's wife come unto him in the presence of the elders, and loose his shoe from off his foot, and spit in his face, and shall answer and say, So shall it be done unto that man that will not build up his brother's house.
  • Deuteronomy 27:1
    And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.
  • Deuteronomy 28:50
    A nation of fierce countenance, which shall not regard the person of the old, nor shew favour to the young:
  • Deuteronomy 29:10
    Ye stand this day all of you before the LORD your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,
  • Deuteronomy 31:9
    And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the LORD, and unto all the elders of Israel.
  • Deuteronomy 31:28
    Gather unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to record against them.