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za.qen H2205

זָקֵן (za.qen) means “old: elder” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

זָקֵן Hebrew · H2205 178 tagged occurrences in 171 verses

Pronunciation guide: zaw-kane' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H2205G

זָקֵן · za.qen · old: elder

: elder/leader 1) old 1a) old (of humans) 1b) elder (of those having authority)

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TBESH · H2205H

זָקֵן · za.qen · old

: old 1) old 1a) old (of humans) 1b) elder (of those having authority) Also means: za.qen (זָקֵן ": elder" H2205)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

from H2204 (זָקֵן); old

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

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How translators render H2205

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
the elders 58
of the elders 13
and the elders 10
elders 9
old 8
the old 5
to the elders 5
and old 3
some of the elders 3
then the elders 3
an old 2
and elders 2
and the leading 2
old age 2
so the elders 2
the aged 2
your elders 2
against the old 1
along with the elders 1
an elderly 1
and leaders 1
and old alike 1
and old women 1
and the elder 1
and your elders 1
as did the elders 1
as leaders 1
before its elders 1
for the old 1
from the elders 1
his elders 1
his elders wisdom 1
how is your elderly 1
including its elders 1
is the elder 1
more than the elders 1
neither elderly 1
o elders 1
of elders 1
of the aged 1
of the old 1
of the older 1
old men 1
or an old man 1
or the elderly 1
take some of the elders 1
than an old 1
the chief 1
the elderly 1
the old man 1
the old men 1
them 1
then some of the elders 1
they 1
to his own 1
were already old 1
were older 1
when the elders 1
with the elders 1
with their elders 1
with them 1
your old 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
and the elders 22
of the elders 15
the elders 14
unto the elders 14
and all the elders 7
old 6
all the elders 4
and old 4
and the old 4
he and the elders 3
then the elders 3
with the elders 3
an old 2
an old man 2
for the elders 2
of old men 2
of the ancients 2
of the old men 2
to the elders 2
against the ancient 1
among the elders 1
ancient men 1
and before his ancients 1
and before the elders 1
and mine elders 1
and of the ancients 1
and old women 1
and teach his senators 1
and the ancient 1
and their elders 1
and there shall not be an old man 1
and unto all the elders 1
and with our old 1
and with them the elders 1
and your elders 1
at the ancient 1
both old 1
elder 1
elders 1
even the elders 1
for all the elders 1
for their elders 1
from the ancients 1
me now i pray thee before the elders 1
more than the ancients 1
neither do the aged 1
nor an old man 1
not the elders 1
of elders 1
of the aged 1
of the old 1
of the old man 1
old man 1
old men 1
so all the elders 1
than an old 1
that there shall not be an old man 1
the aged 1
the ancient 1
the ancients 1
the old 1
the old man 1
the old mens 1
thee thy elders 1
then all the elders 1
then thy elders 1
there shall yet old men 1
this ye old men 1
thou and the elders 1
to be the elders 1
unto him all the elders 1
unto his eldest 1
unto me all the elders 1
upon the ancient 1
what the ancients 1
where the old 1
wherefore our elders 1
which the old men 1
with the ancients 1
with the old 1
with the old men 1
with thee of the elders 1
your elders 1
your old men 1

Verses containing H2205

Page 3 of 4. 171 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. 1 Kings 13:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the old prophet lifted up the body of the man of God, laid it on the donkey, and brought it back to his own city to mourn for him and bury him.

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  2. 1 Kings 20:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the king of Israel summoned all the elders of the land and said, “Please take note and see that this man is looking for trouble, for when he demanded my wives, my children, my silver, and my gold, I did not deny him.”

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  3. 1 Kings 20:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And the elders and the people all said, “Do not listen to him or consent to his terms.”

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  4. 1 Kings 21:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then Jezebel wrote letters in Ahab’s name, sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived with Naboth in his city.

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  5. 1 Kings 21:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the elders and nobles who lived in Naboth’s city did as Jezebel had instructed in the letters she had written to them.

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  6. 2 Kings 6:32 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    Now Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him. The king sent a messenger ahead, but before he arrived, Elisha said to the elders, “Do you see how this murderer has sent someone to cut off my head? Look, when the messenger comes, shut the door to keep him out. Is not the sound of his master’s footsteps behind him?”

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  7. 2 Kings 10:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying:

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  8. 2 Kings 10:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So the palace administrator, the overseer of the city, the elders, and the guardians sent a message to Jehu: “We are your servants, and we will do whatever you say. We will not make anyone king. Do whatever is good in your sight.”

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  9. 2 Kings 19:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz

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  10. 2 Kings 23:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

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  11. 1 Chronicles 11:3 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, where David made a covenant with them before the LORD. And they anointed him king over Israel, according to the word of the LORD through Samuel.

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  12. 1 Chronicles 15:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So David, the elders of Israel, and the commanders of thousands went with rejoicing to bring the ark of the covenant of the LORD from the house of Obed-edom.

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  13. 1 Chronicles 21:16 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When David lifted up his eyes and saw the angel of the LORD standing between heaven and earth, with a drawn sword in his hand stretched out over Jerusalem, David and the elders, clothed in sackcloth, fell facedown.

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  14. 2 Chronicles 5:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    At that time Solomon assembled in Jerusalem the elders of Israel—all the tribal heads and family leaders of the Israelites—to bring up the ark of the covenant of the LORD from Zion, the City of David.

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  15. 2 Chronicles 5:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When all the elders of Israel had arrived, the Levites took up the ark,

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  16. 2 Chronicles 10:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked.

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  17. 2 Chronicles 10:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.

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  18. 2 Chronicles 10:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And the king answered them harshly. King Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders

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  19. 2 Chronicles 34:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the king summoned all the elders of Judah and Jerusalem.

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  20. 2 Chronicles 36:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God gave them all into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar,

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  21. Ezra 3:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But many of the older priests, Levites, and family heads who had seen the first temple wept loudly when they saw the foundation of this temple. Still, many others shouted joyfully.

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  22. Ezra 10:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Whoever failed to appear within three days would forfeit all his property, according to the counsel of the leaders and elders, and would himself be expelled from the assembly of the exiles.

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  23. Ezra 10:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Let our leaders represent the whole assembly. Then let everyone in our towns who has married a foreign woman come at an appointed time, together with the elders and judges of each town, until the fierce anger of our God in this matter is turned away from us.”

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  24. Esther 3:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.

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  25. Job 12:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    He deprives the trusted of speech and takes away the discernment of elders.

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  26. Job 32:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Now Elihu had waited to speak to Job because the others were older than he.

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  27. Job 32:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    It is not only the old who are wise, or the elderly who understand justice.

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  28. Job 42:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And so Job died, old and full of years.

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  29. Psalms 105:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    to instruct his princes as he pleased and teach his elders wisdom.

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  30. Psalms 107:32 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Let them exalt Him in the assembly of the people and praise Him in the council of the elders.

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  31. Psalms 119:100 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I discern more than the elders, for I obey Your precepts.

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  32. Psalms 148:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    young men and maidens, old and young together.

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  33. Proverbs 17:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of a son is his father.

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  34. Proverbs 20:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The glory of young men is their strength, and gray hair is the splendor of the old.

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  35. Proverbs 31:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Her husband is known at the city gates, where he sits among the elders of the land.

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  36. Ecclesiastes 4:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.

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  37. Isaiah 3:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    the mighty man and the warrior, the judge and the prophet, the soothsayer and the elder,

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  38. Isaiah 3:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will rise up against the old, and the base against the honorable.

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  39. Isaiah 3:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The LORD brings this charge against the elders and leaders of His people: “You have devoured the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

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  40. Isaiah 9:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The head is the elder and honorable man, and the tail is the prophet who teaches lies.

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    Source alternate reference: 9.14

  41. Isaiah 20:4 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    so the king of Assyria will lead away the captives of Egypt and the exiles of Cush, young and old alike, naked and barefoot, with bared buttocks—to Egypt’s shame.

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  42. Isaiah 24:23 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    The moon will be confounded and the sun will be ashamed; for the LORD of Hosts will reign on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before His elders with great glory.

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  43. Isaiah 37:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    And he sent Eliakim the palace administrator, Shebna the scribe, and the leading priests, all wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz

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  44. Isaiah 47:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.

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  45. Isaiah 65:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.

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  46. Jeremiah 6:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    But I am full of the LORD’s wrath; I am tired of holding it back. “Pour it out on the children in the street, and on the young men gathered together. For both husband and wife will be captured, the old and the very old alike.

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  47. Jeremiah 19:1 · BSB · 2 occurrences

    This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,

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  48. Jeremiah 26:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Some of the elders of the land stood up and said to the whole assembly of the people,

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  49. Jeremiah 29:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    This is the text of the letter that Jeremiah the prophet sent from Jerusalem to the surviving elders among the exiles and to the priests, the prophets, and all the others Nebuchadnezzar had carried into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon.

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  50. Jeremiah 31:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.

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