זָקֵן
za.qen
be old
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Occurrences in Scripture
27 total occurrences across the text
Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I have grown old will I have pleasure, my lord being old also?”
Genesis 18:13Yahweh said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh, saying, ‘Will I really bear a child when I am old?’
Genesis 19:31The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.
Genesis 24:1Abraham was old, and well advanced in age. Yahweh had blessed Abraham in all things.
Genesis 27:1When Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, “My son?” He said to him, “Here I am.”
Genesis 27:2He said, “See now, I am old. I don’t know the day of my death.
Joshua 13:1Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. Yahweh said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.
Joshua 13:1Now Joshua was old and well advanced in years. Yahweh said to him, “You are old and advanced in years, and there remains yet very much land to be possessed.
Joshua 23:1After many days, when Yahweh had given rest to Israel from their enemies all around, and Joshua was old and well advanced in years,
Joshua 23:2Joshua called for all Israel, for their elders and for their heads, and for their judges and for their officers, and said to them, “I am old and well advanced in years.
Ruth 1:12Go back, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, ‘I have hope,’ if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons,
1 Samuel 2:22Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did to all Israel, and how that they slept with the women who served at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
1 Samuel 4:18When he made mention of God’s ark, Eli fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died, for he was an old man and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
1 Samuel 8:1When Samuel was old, he made his sons judges over Israel.
1 Samuel 8:5They said to him, “Behold, you are old, and your sons don’t walk in your ways. Now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.”
1 Samuel 12:2Now, behold, the king walks before you. I am old and gray-headed. Behold, my sons are with you. I have walked before you from my youth to this day.
1 Samuel 17:12Now David was the son of that Ephrathite of Bethlehem Judah, whose name was Jesse; and he had eight sons. The man was an elderly old man in the days of Saul.
2 Samuel 19:32Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even eighty years old. He had provided the king with sustenance while he stayed at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.
1 Kings 1:1Now king David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm.
1 Kings 1:15Bathsheba went in to the king in his room. The king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was serving the king.
2 Kings 4:14He said, “What then is to be done for her?” Gehazi answered, “Most certainly she has no son, and her husband is old.”
1 Chronicles 23:1Now David was old and full of days; and he made Solomon his son king over Israel.
2 Chronicles 24:15But Jehoiada grew old and was full of days, and he died. He was one hundred thirty years old when he died.
Job 14:8Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,
Psalms 37:25I have been young, and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his children begging for bread.
Proverbs 22:6Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.
Proverbs 23:22Listen to your father who gave you life, and don’t despise your mother when she is old.