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# זְקֻנִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2208

**old age** — used 4 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/1494/2208/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זְקֻנִים: n.pl. old age [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2208/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pl.\[m.\] old age—בֶּן־ז׳ Gn 37:3 i.e. a late-born son; יֶלֶד ז׳ Gn 44:20 id.; (ילדה)בֵּן לִזְקֻנָיו Gn 21:2, 7 (all JE).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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: his old (2); of old age(s) (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 21:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.7/#tree)

וַתֹּ֗אמֶר מִ֤י מִלֵּל֙ לְאַבְרָהָ֔ם הֵינִ֥יקָה בָנִ֖ים שָׂרָ֑ה כִּֽי־יָלַ֥דְתִּי בֵ֖ן לִזְקֻנָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and she.said who? has.he.said to Abraham she.has.nursed children Sarah (dm) I.have.borne a.son of his.old age(s)

*JPS 1917:* And she said: 'Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should give children suck? for I have borne him a son in his old age.'

[Genesis 21:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.21.2/#tree)

וַתַּהַר֩ וַתֵּ֨לֶד שָׂרָ֧ה לְאַבְרָהָ֛ם בֵּ֖ן לִזְקֻנָ֑יו לַמּוֹעֵ֕ד אֲשֶׁר־דִּבֶּ֥ר אֹת֖וֹ אֱלֹהִֽים׃

*Word for word:* and she.conceived and she.bore Sarah to Abraham a.son of his.old age(s) to the.appointed time which he.had.spoken him God

*JPS 1917:* And Sarah conceived, and bore Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2208.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2208/): 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).