זָקֵןzâqên
be or become old
Pronunciation: zaw-kane' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2204
Meanings
Qal: be (or become) old (Genesis 18:12; Proverbs 23:22; 1 Samuel 8:5)
Hiph`il: shew age, grow old (Proverbs 22:6; Job 14:8)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 27 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 18:12 So she laughed silently to herself and said, “How could a worn-out woman like me enjoy such pleasure, especially when my master—my husband—is also so old?”
- Genesis 18:13 Then the Lord said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh? Why did she say, ‘Can an old woman like me have a baby?’
- Genesis 19:31 One day the older daughter said to her sister, “There are no men left anywhere in this entire area, so we can’t get married like everyone else. And our father will soon be too old to have children.
- Genesis 24:1 Abraham was now a very old man, and the Lord had blessed him in every way.
- Genesis 27:1 One day when Isaac was old and turning blind, he called for Esau, his older son, and said, “My son.” “Yes, Father?” Esau replied.
- Genesis 27:2 “I am an old man now,” Isaac said, “and I don’t know when I may die.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).