{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H2204",
  "lemma": "זָקֵן",
  "transliteration": "zâqên",
  "definition": "to be old",
  "kjv": "aged man, be (wax) old (man).",
  "occurrences": 27,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "זָקֵן vb. be or become old",
    "Qal be (or become) old",
    "Hiph. shew age, grow old"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 18:12",
      "text": "Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 18:13",
      "text": "The LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=13"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 19:31",
      "text": "The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=31"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 24:1",
      "text": "Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. The LORD had blessed Abraham in all things.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 27:1",
      "text": "When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 27:2",
      "text": "He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/27?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 13:1",
      "text": "Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. The LORD said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/13?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 23:1",
      "text": "After many days, when the LORD had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/23?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 23:2",
      "text": "Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/23?v=2"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 2:22",
      "text": "Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/2?v=22"
    }
  ],
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