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:
Jeremiah 19:1: "a potter's earthen bottle, and take of the ancients and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients"
Jeremiah 19:1: "bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients and of the ancients of the priests;"
Jeremiah 26:17: "Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spoke to all"
Jeremiah 29:1: "from Jerusalem unto the residue of the elders which were carried away captives, and to the priests,"
Jeremiah 31:13: "in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy,"
Jeremiah 51:22: "man and with thee will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in pieces the young man and the maid;"
Lamentations 1:19: "deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought"
Lamentations 2:10: " The elders of the daughter sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust"
Lamentations 2:21: "The young and the old on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen"
Lamentations 4:16: "of the priests, they favored not the elders."
Lamentations 5:12: "are hanged up the faces of elders were not honored."
Lamentations 5:14: " The elders have ceased the young men from their music."
Ezekiel 7:26: "but the law shall perish from the priest, and counsel from the ancients. from the ancients."
Ezekiel 8:1: "as I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand"
Ezekiel 8:11: "before men of the ancients of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst"
Ezekiel 8:12: "of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark,"
Ezekiel 9:6: "Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near"
Ezekiel 9:6: "whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary. Then they began at the ancient men"
Ezekiel 14:1: "Then came certain of the elders of Israel unto me, and sat before"
Ezekiel 20:1: "month, the tenth day of the month, that certain of the elders of the elders of Israel came to inquire"
Ezekiel 20:3: "of man, unto the elders of Israel, and say unto them, Thus"
Ezekiel 27:9: " The ancients of Gebal men thereof were in thee thy caulkers: all the ships"
Joel 1:2: "Hear this, ye old men, and give ear, all ye inhabitants of the land. Hath this"
Joel 1:14: "a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house"
Joel 2:16: "the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts:"
Joel 2:28: "flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men"
Zechariah 8:4: "of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem,"
Zechariah 8:4: "of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man"
