זָקָן
zâqân · zaw-kawn'
the beard (as indicating age)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2204 (זָקֵן);
the beard (as indicating age)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: beard.
Letters
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to cut, to sustain › what comes behind, the returning cycle › the seed, life continuing
To cut, to sustain of what comes behind, the returning cycle of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of זָקָן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
19 occurrences · 19 OT · 0 NT · 16 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- until your beards2 · 11%
- and every beard2 · 11%
- or the beard1 · 5%
- or beard1 · 5%
- and his beard1 · 5%
- of thy beard1 · 5%
- of their beard1 · 5%
- him by his beard1 · 5%
- upon his beard1 · 5%
- of their beards1 · 5%
- by the beard1 · 5%
- and of my beard1 · 5%
- upon the beard1 · 5%
- beard1 · 5%
- the beard1 · 5%
- having their beards1 · 5%
- and upon thy beard1 · 5%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.