King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H2204
Transliteration: zaqen
Phonetic Spelling: (zaw-kane')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be or become old
Meaning: to be or become old
Word Summary
zaqen: to be or become old
Original Word: זָקֵןTransliteration: zaqen
Phonetic Spelling: (zaw-kane')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be or become old
Meaning: to be or become old
Strong's Concordance
aged man, old man A primitive root; to be old -- aged man, be (wax) old (man).
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2204. zaqen
זָקֵן verb be or become old (compare, according to Thes, Arabic a she-camel that lets her lower lip hang down, see Lane968; decrepit man) —
Qal Perfect3masculine singular זָקֵן Genesis 18:12 14t. (often hard to distinguished from predicate adjective זָקֵן q. v.); 3feminine singular זָָֽקְנָה Proverbs 23:22; 2masculine singular זָקַנְתָּ 1 Samuel 8:5; זָקַ֫נְתָּה Joshua 13:1; 1singular זָקַנְתִּי 23:2-3t.; זָקַנְ֑תִּי Genesis 18:13; 27:2; Imperfect וַיִּזְקַן2 Chronicles 24:15; — be (or become) old Genesis 18:12-13, 19:31; 27:1-2,(all J), 1 Samuel 2:22; 4:18; 8:1; 8:5; 12:2; 1 Samuel 17:122; Sam 1 Samuel 19:33; 1 Kings 1:1, 15; 2 Kings 4:14; also Genesis 24:1 ("" בימים בא), so Joshua 13:1 (twice in verse); 23:1-2,("" here בימים בָּאתִי), 1 Chronicles 23:1 ("" ימים שָׂבַע), 24:15 ("" id.); Proverbs 23:22; Psalm 37:25 (opposed to "" נער היה); note especially לאישׁ מִהְיוֺת זָקַנְתִּי Ruth 1:12 I am too old to belong to a man (husband).
Hiph`il only Imperfect3masculine singular יַזְקִין inchoate shew age, grow old = senescere Ew§ 122 c, compare Di; of youth Proverbs 22:6; of tree-root Job 14:8.