zakan · beard

What it means

zakan (זָקָן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “beard”.

Also the chin.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The hair that grows on a man's face, on the chin and cheeks.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• beard ×15
• beards ×4

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×5
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Ezra×1
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×1

• Leviticus 13:29

  When a man or a woman has a sore on the head or on the beard,

• Leviticus 13:30

  the priest shall examine the sore, and if its appearance is deeper than the skin and there is in it yellowish thin hair, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is ringworm; it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.

• Leviticus 14:9

  On the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair: his head, his beard, and the brows of his eyes; all his hair he shall shave off; he shall wash his garments and bathe his body in water, and he will be clean.

• Leviticus 19:27

  You shall not round off the edge of your head, and you shall not destroy the edge of your beard.

• Leviticus 21:5

  They shall not make bald spots on their head, and the edge of their beard they shall not shave off, and in their flesh they shall not make cuts.

• 1 Samuel 17:35

  I would go out after it and strike it and deliver it from its mouth; and if it rose against me, I would seize it by its beard and strike it and put it to death.

• 1 Samuel 21:13

  So he changed his behavior before their eyes and pretended to be mad in their hands, and made marks on the doors of the gate, and let his saliva run down onto his beard.

• 2 Samuel 10:4

  So Hanun took the servants of David and shaved off half of their beards, and cut off their garments in the middle, as far as their buttocks, and sent them away.

• 2 Samuel 10:5

  They reported it to David, and he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly humiliated. And the king said, “Stay in Jericho until your beards grow, and then return.”

• 2 Samuel 20:9

  Joab said to Amasa, “Are you well, my brother?” And Joab’s right hand took hold of Amasa’s beard to kiss him.

• 1 Chronicles 19:5

  They went and told David about the men, and he sent to meet them, for the men were greatly humiliated. And the king said, “Stay in Jericho until your beards grow, and then return.”

• Ezra 9:3

  And when I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled out some of the hair of my head and my beard, and sat appalled.

• Psalms 133:2

  It is like the good oil on the head, coming down on the beard, the beard of Aaron, that comes down over the collar of his garments;

• Isaiah 7:20

  On that day Adonai will shave with a hired razor from beyond the River, with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet, and it will also sweep away the beard.

• Isaiah 15:2

  He goes up to the house and to Dibon, to the high places to weep; over Nebo and over Medeba Moab wails; on all its heads baldness, every beard shaved off.

• Jeremiah 41:5

  that men came from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, eighty men, with their beards shaved and their garments torn and cutting themselves, with a grain offering and frankincense in their hand to bring to the house of YHWH.

• Jeremiah 48:37

  For every head is baldness, and every beard shaved off; on all hands gashes, and on the loins sackcloth.

• Ezekiel 5:1

  And you, son of man, take for yourself a sharp sword; as a barbers' razor you will take it for yourself, and pass it over your head and over your beard; and take for yourself scales for weighing, and divide them.

And 1 more times.