Lexicon zaqen: to be or become old Original Word: זָקֵןPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: zaqen Phonetic Spelling: (zaw-kane') Short Definition: old NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom the same as zaqanDefinitionto be or become old NASB Translationam so old (1), am old (3), am...old (1), being old (1), grow old (1), grown old (1), old (17), reached a old (1), reached old (1).
Brown-Driver-Briggs זָקֵן verb be or become old (compare, according to Thes, Arabic  a she-camel that lets her lower lip hang down, see Lane 968;  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 Joshua 23:2 3t.; זָקַנְ֑תִּי Genesis 18:13; Genesis 27:2; Imperfect וַיִּזְקַן2Chronicles 24:15; — be (or become) old Genesis 18:12,13; Genesis 19:31; Genesis 27:1,2(all J), 1 Samuel 2:22; 1 Samuel 4:18; 1 Samuel 8:1; 1 Samuel 8:5; 1 Samuel 12:2; 1 Samuel 17:122; Sam 1 Samuel 19:33; 1 Kings 1:1,15; 2 Kings 4:14; also Genesis 24:1 ("" בא בימים), so Joshua 13:1 (twice in verse); Joshua 23:1,2("" here בָּאתִי בימים), 1 Chronicles 23:1 ("" שָׂבַע ימים), 1 Chronicles 24:15 ("" id.); Proverbs 23:22; Psalm 37:25 (opposed to "" היה נער); note especially זָקַנְתִּי מִהְיוֺת לאישׁ 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.
Strong's aged man, old man A primitive root; to be old -- aged man, be (wax) old (man). |
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