zikna · old age

What it means

zikna (זִקְנָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “old age”.

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 age of an old person, when strength runs out.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• old age ×5
• after she had grown old ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• 1 Kings×2
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×1

• Genesis 24:36

  Sarah, my lord’s wife, bore a son to my lord after she had grown old, and he has given him all that he has.

• 1 Kings 11:4

  And it happened, at the time of Solomon’s old age, that his wives inclined his heart after other gods; and his heart was not whole with YHWH his Elohim, like the heart of David his father.

• 1 Kings 15:23

  The rest of all the deeds of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Only in the time of his old age he became diseased in his feet.

• Psalms 71:9

  Do not cast me away in the time of old age; when my strength fails, do not abandon me.

• Psalms 71:18

  And even to old age and gray hair, Elohim, do not abandon me, until I declare your arm to the generation, to all who are to come, your might.

• Isaiah 46:4

  and until old age I am the same, and until gray hair I will bear you; I have made you, and I will carry, and I will bear, and rescue.