זָקָןzâqân
chin, beard
Pronunciation: zaw-kawn' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2206
Meanings
1. chin (Leviticus 13:29; Leviticus 13:30; Leviticus 14:9)
2. beard (2 Samuel 10:5; 1 Chronicles 19:5; Isaiah 7:20)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 19 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 13:29 “If anyone, either a man or woman, has a sore on the head or chin,
- Leviticus 13:30 the priest must examine it. If he finds it is more than skin-deep and has fine yellow hair on it, the priest must pronounce the person ceremonially unclean. It is a scabby sore of the head or chin.
- Leviticus 14:9 On the seventh day they must again shave all the hair from their heads, including the hair of the beard and eyebrows. They must also wash their clothes and bathe themselves in water. Then they will be ceremonially clean.
- Leviticus 19:27 “Do not trim off the hair on your temples or trim your beards.
- Leviticus 21:5 “The priests must not shave their heads or trim their beards or cut their bodies.
- 1 Samuel 17:35 I go after it with a club and rescue the lamb from its mouth. If the animal turns on me, I catch it by the jaw and club it to death.
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).