זָקֵן zâqên

Meaning

to be old

In the King James Version: aged man, be (wax) old (man).

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Genesis 18:12 So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
• Genesis 18:13 And the LORD asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Can I really bear a child when I am old?’
• Genesis 19:31 One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.
• Genesis 24:1 By now Abraham was old and well along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.
• Genesis 27:1 When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.
• Genesis 27:2 “Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.
• Joshua 13:1 Now Joshua was old and well along in years, and the LORD said to him, “You are old and well along in years, but very much of the land remains to be possessed.
• Joshua 23:1 A long time after the LORD had given Israel rest from all the enemies around them, when Joshua was old and well along in years,
• Joshua 23:2 he summoned all Israel, including its elders, leaders, judges, and officers. “I am old and well along in years,” he said,
• Ruth 1:12 Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,
• 1 Samuel 2:22 Now Eli was very old, and he heard about everything his sons were doing to all Israel and how they were sleeping with the women who served at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
• 1 Samuel 4:18 As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.
• 1 Samuel 8:1 When Samuel grew old, he appointed his sons as judges over Israel.
• 1 Samuel 8:5 “Look,” they said, “you are old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint a king to judge us like all the other nations.”
• 1 Samuel 12:2 Now here is the king walking before you, and I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day.
• 1 Samuel 17:12 Now David was the son of a man named Jesse, an Ephrathite from Bethlehem of Judah who had eight sons. And in the days of Saul, Jesse was old and well along in years.
• 2 Samuel 19:32 Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.
• 1 Kings 1:1 Now King David was old and well along in years, and though they covered him with blankets, he could not keep warm.
• 1 Kings 1:15 So Bathsheba went to see the king in his bedroom. Since the king was very old, Abishag the Shunammite was serving him.
• 2 Kings 4:14 So he asked, “Then what should be done for her?” “Well, she has no son,” Gehazi replied, “and her husband is old.”
• 1 Chronicles 23:1 When David was old and full of years, he installed his son Solomon as king over Israel.
• 2 Chronicles 24:15 When Jehoiada was old and full of years, he died at the age of 130.
• Job 14:8 If its roots grow old in the ground and its stump dies in the soil,
• Psalms 37:25 I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.
• Proverbs 22:6 Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
• Proverbs 23:22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.