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זָקֵן

to be old

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H2204 Strong's Hebrew
zâqên Transliteration
/zaw-kane'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 27 appearances

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Where this word appears

Grammar key — what these labels mean

Part of speech

Verb
An action or state-of-being word.

Stem

Qal
The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Hiphil
The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘only Impf. 3 ms.’

Form

Perfect
A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Imperfect
An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Sequential Imperfect
An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).

Person

3rd Person
The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
1st Person
The speaker (“I / we”).
2nd Person
The one addressed (“you”).

Gender

Masculine
Grammatically masculine.
Common
Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Feminine
Grammatically feminine.

Number

Singular
One.

Grammatical forms

  • Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 15 times (56%)
  • Verb, Qal, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular 6 times (22%)
  • Verb, Hiphil, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 2 times (7%)
  • Verb, Qal, Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular 2 times (7%)
  • Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (4%)
  • Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular 1 time (4%)

Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 27 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.

Every verse where H2204 appears — 26 distinct verses across 12 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.

Genesis 6 verses

Joshua 3 verses

Ruth 1 verse

1 Samuel 6 verses

2 Samuel 1 verse

1 Kings 2 verses

2 Kings 1 verse

1 Chronicles 1 verse

2 Chronicles 1 verse

Job 1 verse

Psalms 1 verse

Proverbs 2 verses

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