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H2204זָקֵןza.qen

be oldPart of speech: Hebrew Verb

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Occurrences by book

  1. 6
  2. Exodus: 0
  3. Leviticus: 0
  4. Numbers: 0
  5. Deuteronomy: 0
  6. 4
  7. Judges: 0
  8. 1
  9. 6
  10. 1
  11. 2
  12. 1
  13. 1
  14. 1
  15. Ezra: 0
  16. Nehemiah: 0
  17. Esther: 0
  18. 1
  19. 1
  20. 2
  21. Ecclesiastes: 0
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. Isaiah: 0
  24. Jeremiah: 0
  25. Lamentations: 0
  26. Ezekiel: 0
  27. Daniel: 0
  28. Hosea: 0
  29. Joel: 0
  30. Amos: 0
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. Micah: 0
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. Zephaniah: 0
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. Zechariah: 0
  39. Malachi: 0

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27 occurrences in 26 verses

With their references and text in Bible in Basic English.

  1. Genesis 18:12

    And Sarah, laughing to herself, said, Now that I am used up am I still to have pleasure, my husband himself being old?

    זָקֵֽן׃ za.Ken “he is old”

  2. Genesis 18:13

    And the Lord said, Why was Sarah laughing and saying, Is it possible for me, being old, to give birth to a child?

    זָקַֽנְתִּי׃ za.Kan.ti “I am old”

  3. Genesis 19:31

    And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural way:

    זָקֵ֑ן za.Ken “he is old”

  4. Genesis 24:1

    Now Abraham was old and far on in years: and the Lord had given him everything in full measure.

    זָקֵ֔ן za.Ken “he was old”

  5. Genesis 27:1

    Now when Isaac was old and his eyes had become clouded so that he was not able to see, he sent for Esau, his first son, and said to him, My son: and he said, Here am I.

    זָקֵ֣ן za.Ken “he was old”

  6. Genesis 27:2

    And he said, See now, I am old, and my death may take place at any time:

    זָקַ֑נְתִּי za.Kan.ti “I am old”

  7. Joshua 13:1

    Now Joshua was old and full of years; and the Lord said to him, You are old and full of years, and there is still very much land to be taken.

    זָקֵ֔ן za.Ken “he was old”זָקַ֙נְתָּה֙ za.Kan.tah “you are old”

  8. Joshua 23:1

    Now after a long time, when the Lord had given Israel rest from wars on every side, and Joshua was old and full of years,

    זָקֵ֔ן za.Ken “he was old”

  9. Joshua 23:2

    Joshua sent for all Israel, for their responsible men and their chiefs and their judges and their overseers, and said to them, I am old, and full of years:

    זָקַ֔נְתִּי za.Kan.ti “I am old”

  10. Ruth 1:12

    Go back, my daughters, and go on your way; I am so old now that I may not have another husband. If I said, I have hopes, if I had a husband tonight, and might have sons,

    זָקַ֖נְתִּי za.Kan.ti “I am [too] old”

  11. 1 Samuel 2:22

    Now Eli was very old; and he had news from time to time of what his sons were doing to all Israel.

    זָקֵ֣ן za.Ken “he was old”

  12. 1 Samuel 4:18

    And at these words about the ark of God, Eli, falling back off his seat by the side of the doorway into the town, came down on the earth so that his neck was broken and death overtook him, for he was an old man and of great weight. He had been judging Is

    זָקֵ֥ן za.Ken “he was old”

  13. 1 Samuel 8:1

    Now when Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.

    זָקֵ֖ן za.Ken “he was old”

  14. 1 Samuel 8:5

    And said to him, See now, you are old, and your sons do not go in your ways: give us a king now to be our judge, so that we may be like the other nations.

    זָקַ֔נְתָּ za.Kan.ta “you have become old”

  15. 1 Samuel 12:2

    And now, see, the king is before you: and I am old and grey-headed, and my sons are with you: I have been living before your eyes from my early days till now.

    זָקַ֣נְתִּי za.Kan.ti “I am old”

  16. 1 Samuel 17:12

    Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Beth-lehem-judah named Jesse, who had eight sons; and he was an old man in Saul's day, and far on in years.

    זָקֵ֖ן za.Ken “he was old”

  17. 2 Samuel 19:32

    Now Barzillai was a very old man, as much as eighty years old: and he had given the king everything he had need of, while he was at Mahanaim, for he was a very great man.

    זָקֵ֣ן za.Ken “he was old”

  18. 1 Kings 1:1

    Now King David was old and far on in years; and though they put covers over him, his body was cold.

    זָקֵ֔ן za.Ken “he was old”

  19. 1 Kings 1:15

    Then Bath-sheba went into the king's room; now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was waiting on him.

    זָקֵ֣ן za.Ken “he was old”

  20. 2 Kings 4:14

    So he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi made answer, Still there is this, she has no son and her husband is old.

    זָקֵֽן׃ za.Ken “he is old”

  21. 1 Chronicles 23:1

    Now David was old and full of days; and he made his son Solomon king over Israel.

    זָקֵ֖ן za.Ken “he was old”

  22. 2 Chronicles 24:15

    But Jehoiada became old and full of days, and he came to his end; he was a hundred and thirty years old at the time of his death.

    וַיִּזְקַ֧ן (יִּזְקַ֧ן) i.yiz.Kan “he became old”

  23. Job 14:8

    Though its root may be old in the earth, and its cut-off end may be dead in the dust;

    יַזְקִ֣ין yaz.Kin “it will grow old”

  24. Psalms 37:25

    I have been young, and now am old, but I have not seen the good man without help, or his children looking for bread.

    זָ֫קַ֥נְתִּי za.Kan.ti “I am old”

  25. Proverbs 22:6

    If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.

    יַ֝זְקִ֗ין yaz.Kin “he will be old”