Word

זִקְנָה

ziqnâh · H2209 · Hebrew · 6 occurrences

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Meanings

old age

State in which a human being is nearing the end of a long life; and is not able to perform certain functions

Examples
Genesis 24:36 “Now my master’s wife Sarah bore a son to my master in her old age, and he has given him all that he has.
1 Kings 11:4 For when Solomon was old, his wives turned his heart away to follow other gods; and his heart was not wholly devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of his father David had been.
1 Kings 15:23 Now as for the rest of all the acts of Asa and all his might, and all that he did and the cities which he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 3 groups

שְׁלֹמֹהSolomon 1
הוּhis 1
הּher 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

3 occurrences in 2 groups

עַדto, as far as, until 3
אַחַרafter, behind 2

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 1 groups

עֵתtime, moment, period 3

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 2 words

שֵׂיב sêyb · H7869 · grey hair, old age: Both words denote old age or the state of being old.
שֵׂיבָה sêybâh · H7872 · grey hair, old age: Both words denote old age as a state or condition: זִקְנָה means "old age" and שֵׂיבָה means "gray hairs" or "old age."

Semantic domains 1 entry

Old002001001041: זִקְנָה denotes old age, the state of having grown aged in years.

Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

זָקֵן zâqên · H2204 · to be old, to become old · 27×זָקֵן zâqên · H2205 · old, elder · 178×זָקָן zâqân · H2206 · beard · 19×זִקְנָהziqnâh · H2209זָקֻן zâqun · H2208 · old age(s) · 4×זֹקֶן zôqen · H2207 · old age · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2209. ziqnah זִקְנָה noun feminine old age — זִקְנָה Psa 71:9 Psa 71:2t.; construct…

H2209. ziqnah
זִקְנָה noun feminine old age — זִקְנָה Psa 71:9 Psa 71:2t.; construct זִקְנַת 1Ki 11:4; suffix זִקְנָתוֺ 1Ki 15:23; זִקְנָתָ֑הּ Gen 24:36; — old age, || שֵׂיבָה Psa 71:18; Isa 46:4; in the time of old age ז ׳לְעֵת 1Ki 11:4; 1Ki 15:23; Psa 71:9; ז ׳אַחֲרֵי (i.e. after she had become old) Gen 24:36 (J).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Old6 occurrences

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

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0