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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.

  • Judges 2:7
    And the people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, who had seen all the great works of the LORD, that he did for Israel.
  • Judges 8:14
    And caught a young man of the men of Succoth, and enquired of him: and he described unto him the princes of Succoth, and the elders thereof, even threescore and seventeen men.
  • Judges 8:16
    And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.
  • Judges 11:5
    And it was so, that when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob:
  • Judges 11:7
    And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, Did not ye hate me, and expel me out of my father's house? and why are ye come unto me now when ye are in distress?
  • Judges 11:8
    And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.
  • Judges 11:9
    And Jephthah said unto the elders of Gilead, If ye bring me home again to fight against the children of Ammon, and the LORD deliver them before me, shall I be your head?
  • Judges 11:10
    And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The LORD be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.
  • Judges 11:11
    Then Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and captain over them: and Jephthah uttered all his words before the LORD in Mizpeh.
  • Judges 19:16
    And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even, which was also of mount Ephraim; and he sojourned in Gibeah: but the men of the place were Benjamites.