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זָקֵן
zâqên · Hebrew · Strong's H2205 · 178 occurrences
The KJV renders 7 different Hebrew words as “ancient”
What it means
old
from H2204 (זָקֵן);
How the KJV renders it
aged, ancient, elder, old man, men and women, senator
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“ancient”
“elder”
“aged”
also renders presbýtēs (G4246), yâshîysh (H3453)
“old man”
also renders presbýtēs (G4246)
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Where it appears
178 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Chronicles 11:3 · HAampc
So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and David made a covenant with them in Hebron before Yahweh. They anointed David king over Israel, according to Yahweh’s word by Samuel.
1 Chronicles 15:25 · HC/Aampc
So David, the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands went to bring the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up out of the house of Obed-Edom with joy.
1 Chronicles 21:16 · HC/Td/Aampa
David lifted up his eyes, and saw Yahweh’s angel standing between earth and the sky, having a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem. Then David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell on their faces.
1 Kings 8:1 · HAampc
Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel with all the heads of the tribes, the princes of the fathers’ households of the children of Israel, to King Solomon in Jerusalem, to bring up the ark of Yahweh’s covenant out of David’s city, which is Zion.
1 Kings 8:3 · HAampc
All the elders of Israel came, and the priests picked up the ark.
1 Kings 12:6 · HTd/Aampa
King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me to answer these people?”
1 Kings 12:8 HTd/Aampa1 Kings 12:13 HTd/Aampa1 Kings 13:11 HAamsa1 Kings 13:25 HTd/Aamsa1 Kings 13:29 HTd/Aamsa1 Kings 20:7 HAampc1 Kings 20:8 HTd/Aampa1 Kings 21:8 HTd/Aampa1 Kings 21:11 HTd/Aampa1 Samuel 2:31 HAamsa1 Samuel 2:32 HAamsa1 Samuel 4:3 HAampc1 Samuel 8:4 HAampc1 Samuel 11:3 HAampc1 Samuel 15:30 HAampc1 Samuel 16:4 HAampc1 Samuel 28:14 HAamsa1 Samuel 30:26 HR/Aampc2 Chronicles 5:2 HAampc2 Chronicles 5:4 HAampc2 Chronicles 10:6 HTd/Aampa2 Chronicles 10:8 HTd/Aampa2 Chronicles 10:13 HTd/Aampa2 Chronicles 34:29 HAampc2 Chronicles 36:17 HAamsa2 Kings 6:32 HC/Td/Aampa2 Kings 10:1 HTd/Aampa2 Kings 10:5 HC/Td/Aampa2 Kings 19:2 HAampc2 Kings 23:1 HAampc2 Samuel 3:17 HAampc2 Samuel 5:3 HAampc2 Samuel 12:17 HAampc2 Samuel 17:4 HAampc2 Samuel 17:15 HAampc2 Samuel 19:11 HAampcDeuteronomy 5:23 HC/Aampc/Sp2mpDeuteronomy 19:12 HAampcDeuteronomy 21:2 HAampc/Sp2msDeuteronomy 21:3 HAampcDeuteronomy 21:4 HAampcDeuteronomy 21:6 HAampcDeuteronomy 21:19 HAampcDeuteronomy 21:20 HAampcDeuteronomy 22:15 HAampcDeuteronomy 22:16 HTd/AampaDeuteronomy 22:17 HAampcDeuteronomy 22:18 HAampcDeuteronomy 25:7 HTd/AampaDeuteronomy 25:8 HAampcDeuteronomy 25:9 HTd/AampaDeuteronomy 27:1 HC/AampcDeuteronomy 28:50 HR/AamsaDeuteronomy 29:10 HAampc/Sp2mp
Occurrences and morphology are taken from the primary Hebrew text, never from an English translation. Strong's Hebrew lexicon and Westminster Leningrad Codex morphology used under CC BY-SA 4.0 / CC BY 4.0 (OpenScriptures). Strong's Greek lexicon is public domain.