Strong's #2205: zaqen (pronounced zaw-kane')
from 2204; old:--aged, ancient (man), elder(-est), old (man, men and...women), senator.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
zâqên
1) old
1a) old (of humans)
1b) elder (of those having authority)
Part of Speech: adjective
Relation: from H2204
Usage:
This word is used 178 times:
1 Kings 12:13: "roughly, and forsook the old men's counsel that they gave"
1 Kings 13:11: "Now there dwelt an old an old in Bethel; and his sons came and told"
1 Kings 13:25: "and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt."
1 Kings 13:29: "it upon the ass, and brought it back: and the old prophet came to the city,"
1 Kings 20:7: "of Israel all the elders of the land, and said, Mark, I pray you,"
1 Kings 20:8: "And all the elders the people said unto him, Hearken not"
1 Kings 21:8: "and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city,"
1 Kings 21:11: "And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did"
2 Kings 6:32: "But Elisha sat and the elders sat with him; and the king sent a man"
2 Kings 6:32: "to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this"
2 Kings 10:1: "unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,"
2 Kings 10:5: "and he that was over the city, the elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu,"
2 Kings 19:2: "the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to"
2 Kings 23:1: "unto him all the elders of Judah and of Jerusalem."
1 Chronicles 11:3: "Therefore came all the elders of Israel to the king to Hebron; and David"
1 Chronicles 15:25: "So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up"
1 Chronicles 21:16: "over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders of Israel, who were clothed in sackcloth, fell upon"
2 Chronicles 5:2: "Solomon the elders of Israel, and all the heads of the tribes,"
2 Chronicles 5:4: "And all the elders came; and the Levites took up the ark."
2 Chronicles 10:6: "Rehoboam with the old men that had stood before"
2 Chronicles 10:8: "which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men"
2 Chronicles 10:13: "forsook the counsel of the old men,"
2 Chronicles 34:29: "all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 36:17: "and had no compassion upon young man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age: he gave them all"
Ezra 3:12: "of the priests and chief of the fathers, who were ancient men, that had seen"
Ezra 10:8: "within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be forfeited,"
Ezra 10:14: "at appointed times, and with them the elders of every city, and the judges thereof, until"
Esther 3:13: "Jews, both young and old, little children and women, in one"
Job 12:20: "and taketh away the understanding of the aged."
Job 32:4: "had spoken, because they were elder than"
Job 32:9: "Great men are not neither do the aged understand judgment."
Job 42:17: "So Job died, being old and full of days."
Psalms 105:22: "To bind his princes and teach his senators wisdom."
Psalms 107:32: "and praise him in the assembly of the elders."
Psalms 119:100: "I understand more than the ancients, more than the ancients, I keep thy precepts."
Psalms 148:12: "Both young men, and old men, and children:"
Proverbs 17:6: "Children's children of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers."
Proverbs 20:29: "of young men and the beauty of old men is the gray head."
Proverbs 31:23: "when he sitteth among the elders of the land."
Ecclesiastes 4:13: "is a poor child than an old and foolish king, who"
Isaiah 3:2: "the judge, and the prophet, and the prudent, and the ancient,"
Isaiah 3:5: "by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honorable."
Isaiah 3:14: "will enter with the ancients of his people, and the princes thereof: for ye have eaten up"
Isaiah 9:15: " The ancient and honorable, is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies,"
Isaiah 20:4: "and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered,"
Isaiah 24:23: "Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously."
Isaiah 37:2: "the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests covered with sackcloth, unto"
Isaiah 47:6: "them no mercy; upon the ancient hast thou very heavily laid thy yoke."
Isaiah 65:20: "thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled"
Jeremiah 6:11: "with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days."
