# H2205 זָקֵן

זָקֵן (zâqên), Strong’s H2205: old KJV: aged, ancient (man), elder(-est), old (man, men and...women), senator.. Occurs 178 times.

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*zâqên* — old

KJV: aged, ancient (man), elder(-est), old (man, men and...women), senator.

Derived from [זָקֵן zâqên](https://besorah.bible/word/H2204) (to be old)

Occurs 178 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- זָקֵן adj. old
- 1 old, of human beings
- 2 usu. as subst.
- a old man (or woman)
- b elder

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 18:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/18?v=11) — Now Abraham and Sarah were old, well advanced in age. Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
- [Genesis 19:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=4) — But before they lay down, the men of the city, the men of Sodom, surrounded the house, both young and old, all the…
- [Genesis 24:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=2) — Abraham said to his servant, the elder of his house, who ruled over all that he had, “Please put your hand under my…
- [Genesis 25:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/25?v=8) — Abraham gave up his spirit, and died at a good old age, an old man, and full of years, and was gathered to his people.
- [Genesis 35:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/35?v=29) — Isaac gave up the spirit and died, and was gathered to his people, old and full of days. Esau and Jacob, his sons…
- [Genesis 43:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/43?v=27) — He asked them of their welfare, and said, “Is your father well, the old man of whom you spoke? Is he yet alive?”
- [Genesis 44:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/44?v=20) — We said to my lord, ‘We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead…
- [Genesis 50:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/50?v=7) — Joseph went up to bury his father; and with him went up all the servants of Pharaoh, the elders of his house, all the…
- [Exodus 3:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/3?v=16) — Go and gather the elders of Israel together, and tell them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of…
- [Exodus 3:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/3?v=18) — They will listen to your voice. You shall come, you and the elders of Israel, to the king of Egypt, and you shall tell…