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Strong's #2204: zaqen (pronounced zaw-kane')

a primitive root; to be old:--aged man, be (wax) old (man).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

zâqên

1) to be old, become old

1a) (Qal) to be old, become old

1b) (Hiphil) to grow old, show age

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root



Usage:

This word is used 27 times:

Genesis 18:12: "shall I have pleasure, my lord being old"
Genesis 18:13: "saying, Shall I of a surety which am old?"
Genesis 19:31: "unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth"
Genesis 24:1: "And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham"
Genesis 27:1: "And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see,"
Genesis 27:2: "And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:"
Joshua 13:1: "Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him, Thou"
Joshua 13:1: "said unto him, Thou art old in years, and there remaineth yet very"
Joshua 23:1: "from all round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken"
Joshua 23:2: "and said them, I am old and stricken in age:"
Ruth 1:12: "my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If"
1 Samuel 2:22: "Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons"
1 Samuel 4:18: "and his neck broke, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he"
1 Samuel 8:1: "And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges"
1 Samuel 8:5: "unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways:"
1 Samuel 12:2: "walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, are with"
1 Samuel 17:12: "and he had eight sons: went among men for an old man in the days of Saul."
2 Samuel 19:32: "Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided"
1 Kings 1:1: "Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he got no heat."
1 Kings 1:15: "into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag ministered unto"
2 Kings 4:14: "she hath no child, and her husband is old."
1 Chronicles 23:1: "So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son"
2 Chronicles 24:15: "But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; a hundred and thirty years"
Job 14:8: "Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;"
Psalms 37:25: "I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken,"
Proverbs 22:6: "he should go: and when he is old, he will not from"
Proverbs 23:22: "not thy mother when she is old."









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