zaken · grow old

What it means

zaken (זָקֵן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “grow old”.

Be old.

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. To keep adding years until reaching old age.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• old ×19
• was old ×8

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×6
• Joshua×4
• Ruth×1
• 1 Samuel×6
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×2

• Genesis 18:12

  So Sarah laughed within herself, saying, “After I am worn out, will I have pleasure, and my lord is old?”

• Genesis 18:13

  YHWH said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh like this, saying, ‘Will I really give birth, when I am old?’

• Genesis 19:31

  The older said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.

• Genesis 24:1

  Abraham was old, advanced in days, and YHWH had blessed Abraham in everything.

• Genesis 27:1

  When Isaac was old and his eyes were too dim to see, he called Esau his older son and said to him, “My son.” And he said to him, “Here I am.”

• Genesis 27:2

  He said, “Look, I am old; I do not know the day of my death.

• Joshua 13:1

  Now Joshua was old, advanced in days, and YHWH said to him, “You are old, advanced in days, and very much of the land remains to take possession of it.

• Joshua 23:1

  And it came about after many days, after YHWH had given rest to Israel from all their enemies all around, and Joshua was old, advanced in days,

• Joshua 23:2

  that Joshua summoned all Israel, its elders, its heads, its judges, and its supervisors, and said to them, “I am old, advanced in days.

• Ruth 1:12

  Return, my daughters, go, for I am too old to belong to a husband. Even if I said, ‘I have hope,’ even if I belonged to a husband tonight and also gave birth to sons,

• 1 Samuel 2:22

  Now Eli was very old, and he heard all that his sons were doing to all Israel, and that they were lying with the women who served at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• 1 Samuel 4:18

  And it happened, when he mentioned the ark of Elohim, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck was broken and he died, for the man was old and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.

• 1 Samuel 8:1

  And it happened, when Samuel grew old, that he made his sons judges over Israel.

• 1 Samuel 8:5

  and said to him, “Look, you have grown old, and your sons do not walk in your ways. Now appoint for us a king to judge us like all the nations.”

• 1 Samuel 12:2

  And now, look, the king walks before you, and I am old and gray, and my sons, look, they are with you. And I have walked before you from my youth until this day.

• 1 Samuel 17:12

  Now David was the son of that Ephrathite man from Bethlehem of Judah, whose name was Jesse, and he had eight sons; and the man in the days of Saul was old, advanced in years among men.

• 2 Samuel 19:32

  Barzillai was very old, eighty years old, and he had provided for the king while he stayed at Mahanaim, for he was a very rich man.

• 1 Kings 1:1

  Now King David was old, advanced in days; and they covered him with clothes, but he could not get warm.

• 1 Kings 1:15

  So Bathsheba went in to the king, into the chamber; now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering to the king.

• 2 Kings 4:14

  He said, “What, then, is to be done for her?” Gehazi said, “Well, she has no son, and her husband is old.”

• 1 Chronicles 23:1

  When David was old and satisfied with days, he made Solomon his son king over Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 24:15

  Jehoiada grew old and was satisfied with days, and he died; he was a hundred and thirty years old when he died.

• Job 14:8

  If its root grows old in the earth, and in the dust its trunk dies,

• Psalms 37:25

  Young I was, and also I have grown old, and I have not seen a righteous man abandoned or his offspring seeking bread.

• Proverbs 22:6

  Train the young man according to his way; even when he is old he will not turn away from it.

• Proverbs 23:22

  Listen to your father who fathered you, and do not despise your mother when she is old.

And 1 more times.