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# זֹקֶן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2207

**old age** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

old age [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2207/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זֹ֫קֶן: old age [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2207/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] old age—עֵינֵי ישׂראל כָּֽבְדוּ מִזֹּ֫קֶן Gn 48:10 (E).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: old age (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 48:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.48.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.48.10/#tree)

וְעֵינֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ כָּבְד֣וּ מִזֹּ֔קֶן לֹ֥א יוּכַ֖ל לִרְא֑וֹת וַיַּגֵּ֤שׁ אֹתָם֙ אֵלָ֔יו וַיִּשַּׁ֥ק לָהֶ֖ם וַיְחַבֵּ֥ק לָהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and the.eyes of.Israel they.were.heavy from old.age not he.was.able to see and he.brought.near them to him and he.kissed (to) them and he.embraced (to) them

*JPS 1917:* Now the eyes of Israel were dim for age, so that he could not see. And he brought them near unto him; and he kissed them, and embraced them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2207.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2207/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).