עַתִּיק
ancient
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Construct 2 times (67%)
- Noun, Proper 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H6268 appears — 3 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
Daniel 3 verses
- Daniel 7:9 וְ/עַתִּ֥יק conj + Adjective Adjective ms cs I saw until thrones were placed, and one who was ancient of days sat: his clothing was white as snow, and the hair of his head like pure wool; his throne was fiery flames, [and] the wheels of it burning fire.
- Daniel 7:13 עַתִּ֤יק adj Adjective ms cs I saw in the night-visions, and, behold, there came with the clouds of the sky one like a son of man, and he came even to the ancient of days, and they brought him near before him.
- Daniel 7:22 עַתִּיק֙ n Proper until the ancient of days came, and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High, and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, עתיק (ʻattîyq) means “ancient.” With only 3 verses it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in Daniel (100% of all occurrences). It first appears in Daniel 7:9. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H6268 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 3 verses 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Ancient 3×
- American Standard Version: Ancient 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ancient 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ancient of 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H6268 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H6268 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H6268 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H6268 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. removed, עַתִּיקֵי מִשָּׁדָ֑יִם Is 28:9 i.e. weaned (‖ גְּמוּלֵי מֵחָלָב; on cstr. v. Ges§ 130 a). e.g. Isaiah 28:9
- 2. old, ancient (Aramaism: עַתִּיק, ܥܰܬܻܝܩ old), הַדְּבָרִים עַתִּיקִים 1 Ch 4:22. e.g. 1 Chronicles 4:22
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
adj. removed, old;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עתיק (ʻattîyq) (H6267) — old.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
עַתִּיק
- 1. (b. h.; old, ancient. Yalk. Chr. 1074 (ref. to I Chr. IV, 22) הדברים הללו מעַתִּיקוֹ של עולם these words come from the Ancient One of the world (v. next w.); v. עָתַק I Hif.—[ (עָתַק I) remote.—Pl. עַתִּיקִים. Ib. (anoth. explan. of I Chr. l. c.) הדברים האלו סתומין כאן וכ׳ (not אמורין) these words are obscure here, but explained elsewhere; Ruth R. to I, 1 (s. 2).] e.g. 1 Chronicles 4:22
עַתִּיק ²
- (preced.) enduring, strong, old. Targ. Num. VI, 3. Targ. O. Lev. XIII, 11 (Y. עתיקותא, read: עַתִּיקְתָּא); a. fr.—Pes. 119ᵃ (ref. to ולמכסה עתיק, Is. XXIII, 18) דברים שכיסה ע׳ יומין the things which the Ancient of days (Dan. VII, 22) has hidden. B. Bath. 91ᵇ (ref. to I Chr. IV, 22, v. preced.) דברים הללו ע׳ יומיא אמרן the Ancient of days has said these things; Yalk. Ruth 600. B. Kam. 96ᵇ גזלנא ע׳ an inveterate robber. Pes. 42ᵇ (expl. יין ישן) ע׳ עַתִּיקֵי very old wine. Yoma 29ᵃ מיגמר בע׳ וכ׳, v. גְּמַר II; a. e.—[B. Bath. 91ᵇ bot., v. עוּתְקָא.]—Pl. עַתִּיקִין, עַתִּיקַיָּא, עַתִּיקֵי. Targ. I Kings VIII, 2 (h. text האתנים).—Y. Shek. II, beg. 46ᶜ תקלין ע׳ old Shekels. Pes. l. c., v. supra; a. e. e.g. Isaiah 23:18
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H6268 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/עַתִּ֥יק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 7:9 | 1 |
| עַתִּ֤יק | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Daniel 7:13 | 1 |
| עַתִּיק֙ | Noun, Proper | Daniel 7:22 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
