Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
be old
Usage: 1) to be old, become old 1a) (Qal) to be old, become old 1b) (Hiphil) to grow old, show age
Zaqen means “aged man” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2204 — zeo (“be fervent”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2204 זָקֵן (zaqen) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. zaqen (zaw-kane') v. 1. to be old [a primitive root] It has 26 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include old and am. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
zaqen (zaw-kane') v. 1. to be old [a primitive root] KJV: aged man, be (wax) old (man).
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be old
Usage: 1) to be old, become old 1a) (Qal) to be old, become old 1b) (Hiphil) to grow old, show age
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render zaqen, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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26 indexed usages in Old Testament.
Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
First 26 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2204.
Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
And Abraham was old, and well stricken in age: and the LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.
And it came to pass, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his eldest son, and said unto him, My son: and he said unto him, Behold, here am I.
And he said, Behold now, I am old, I know not the day of my death:
Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the LORD said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.
And it came to pass a long time after that the LORD had given rest unto Israel from all their enemies round about, that Joshua waxed old and stricken in age.
And Joshua called for all Israel, and for their elders, and for their heads, and for their judges, and for their officers, and said unto them, I am old and stricken in age:
Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have an husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should have an husband also to night, and should also bear sons;
Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.
And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.
And it came to pass, when Samuel was old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.
And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
And now, behold, the king walketh before you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you: and I have walked before you from my childhood unto this day.
Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehemjudah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons: and the man went among men for an old man in the days of Saul.
Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
Now king David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat.
And Bathsheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite ministered unto the king.
And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.
So when David was old and full of days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
Hearken unto thy father that begat thee, and despise not thy mother when she is old.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2204, grouped by book.
Zaqen (Strong's H2204) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "aged man". zaqen (zaw-kane') v. 1. to be old [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 26 linked usages for Strong's H2204 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2204 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as old and am. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.