זָקֵן
zâqên · H2204 · Hebrew · 27 occurrences
Meanings
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to be old, to become old
State in which humans are advanced in age, and the body is no longer able to function as before
ExamplesGenesis 18:12 So Sarah laughed to herself, saying, “After I have become old, am I to have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
Genesis 18:13 But the LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Shall I actually give birth to a child, when I am so old?’
Genesis 19:31 Then the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to have relations with us according to the custom of all the earth.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
27 occurrences in 18 groups
- אִישׁman, person, each 3
- אֲנִיI 3
- Not stated: I 3
- Other words · 15 groups that occur once or twice (18) 18
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- מִןfrom+ הָיָהto be, to become 1
- בin/on/with+ יוֹםday, time 1
- בin/on/with+ אֶרֶץland, earth, ground 1
With adverbsAdverbs
3 occurrences in 1 groups
- מְאֹדvery 3
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אָמַרto say 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- עָתַק ʻâthaq · H6275 · to move, to shift, to move (from one place to another)
- זָקֵן (zâqên, H2204) is the dedicated, most frequent term for aging/being old (27×, single domain); עָתַק (ʻâthaq, H6275) is polysemous (5 domains) but overlaps in expressing the process of becoming old (9× total).
In the other Testament 2 words
- πρεσβύτερος presbýteros · G4245 · older, of ancient times
- Greek πρεσβύτερος rendered Hebrew זָקֵן in LXX contexts denoting aged persons or elders, sharing the core semantic field of advanced age and associated social status, with πρεσβύτερος carrying additional institutional sense (elder as office-holder) that extends but does not contradict the basic age-related meaning.
- πρεσβύτης presbýtēs · G4246 · old man
- Greek πρεσβύτης directly translates Hebrew זָקֵן in its nominal sense 'old man,' with both denoting elderly males (LXX consistently uses πρεσβύτης to render זָקֵן when referring to aged persons rather than elders as officials).
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Old002001001041
- זָקֵן denotes being aged or growing old, describing the advanced years of a person's life.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2204. zaqen זָקֵן verb be or become old (compare, according to Thes, Arabic a she-camel…
זָקֵן verb be or become old (compare, according to Thes, Arabic a she-camel that lets her lower lip hang down, see Lane968; decrepit man) —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular זָקֵן Gen 18:12 Gen 18:14t. (often hard to distinguished from predicate adjective זָקֵן q. v.); 3feminine singular זָָֽקְנָה Pro 23:22; Pro 23:2masculine singular זָקַנְתָּ 1Sa 8:5; זָקַ֫נְתָּה Jos 13:1; Jos 13:1singular זָקַנְתִּי Jos 23:2-3t.; זָקַנְ֑תִּי Gen 18:13; Gen 27:2; Imperfect וַיִּזְקַן2Ch 24:15; — be (or become) old Gen 18:12-13, Gen 19:31; Gen 27:1-2,(all J), 1Sa 2:22; 1Sa 4:18; 1Sa 8:1; 1Sa 8:5; 1Sa 12:2; 1 Samuel 17:122; Sam 1 Samuel 19:33; 1Ki 1:1, 1Ki 1:15; 2Ki 4:14; also Gen 24:1 (|| בימים בא), so Jos 13:1 (twice in verse); Jos 23:1-2,(|| here בימים בָּאתִי), 1Ch 23:1 (|| ימים שָׂבַע), 1Ch 24:15 (|| id.); Pro 23:22; Psa 37:25 (opposed to || נער היה); note especially לאישׁ מִהְיוֺת זָקַנְתִּי Rth 1:12 I am too old to belong to a man (husband).
Hiph`il only Imperfect3masculine singular יַזְקִין inchoate shew age, grow old = senescere Ew§ 122 c, compare Di; of youth Pro 22:6; of tree-root Job 14:8.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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