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# זִקְנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2209

**old age** — used 6 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

old age [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2209/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זִקְנָה: n.f. old age [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2209/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. old age—זִקְנָה ψ 71:9 + 2 times; cstr. זִקְנַת 1 K 11:4; sf. זִקְנָתוֹ 1 K 15:23; זִקְנָתָ֑הּ Gn 24:36;—old age, ‖ שֵׂיבָה ψ 71:18 Is 46:4; in the time of old age לְעֵת ז׳ 1 K 11:4; 15:23 ψ 71:9; אַחֲרֵי ז׳ (i.e. after she had become old) Gn 24:36 (J).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: old age (2); age (1); his old age (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 71:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.71.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.71.9/#tree)

אַֽל־תַּ֭שְׁלִיכֵנִי לְעֵ֣ת זִקְנָ֑ה כִּכְל֥וֹת כֹּ֝חִ֗י אַֽל־תַּעַזְבֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* do.not cast me.away to a.time of.old.age just as.fails strength my do.not forsake me

*JPS 1917:* Cast me not off in the time of old age; when my strength faileth, forsake me not.

[Isaiah 46:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.46.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.46.4/#tree)

וְעַד־זִקְנָה֙ אֲנִ֣י ה֔וּא וְעַד־שֵיבָ֖האֲנִ֣י אֶסְבֹּ֑ל אֲנִ֤י עָשִׂ֙יתִי֙ וַאֲנִ֣י אֶשָּׂ֔א וַאֲנִ֥י אֶסְבֹּ֖ל וַאֲמַלֵּֽט׃ס

*Word for word:* and until old.age I \[am\].he and until gray.hair I I.will.carry I I.made and I I.will.bear and I I.will.carry and I.will.rescue

*JPS 1917:* Even to old age I am the same, and even to hoar hairs will I carry you; I have made, and I will bear; yea, I will carry, and will deliver.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2209/): 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).