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זְקֵנִים

Old · elder: Elder

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זָקֵן H2205 old
Pronunciation zāqēn
Denotes advanced age; primarily a man of authority and wisdom, functioning as elder in community governance and counsel
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πρεσβύτερος G4245 elder: Elder
Pronunciation presbýteros
Denotes both age-based seniority and official religious or civic leadership position, particularly in Jewish and Christian communities.
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What does זְקֵנִים (zeqenim) mean in the Bible?

זָקֵן · πρεσβύτερος is a Hebrew word meaning "elderly people, those advanced in years".

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Meaning

elderly people, those advanced in years
Grammatical Forms

How this word appears across different grammatical cases and numbers.

96 total occurrences across all forms in the biblical text Morphology: OSHB — CC BY 4.0
Word Pictures (Robertson)

A.T. Robertson's Word Pictures in the New Testament (1930–31) discusses this term in the following chapters. Open any chapter and go to the Word Pictures tab to read his verse-by-verse commentary.

Acts 14 — Through Many Hardships into the Kingdom Acts 20 — Paul’s Farewell Charge to Shepherd the Church of God Mark 15 — The Crucified King: Condemnation, Mockery, Death, Confession, and Burial Mark 7 — True Defilement and Boundary-Crossing Mercy Mark 8 — Seeing Jesus Clearly: Bread, Blindness, Confession, Cross, and Discipleship Matthew 15 — Tradition, the Heart, Gentile Faith, and the Compassionate Bread of the Messiah Matthew 16 — The Confession of the Christ, the Church Christ Builds, and the Cross-Shaped Way of Discipleship Matthew 21 — The King Enters Jerusalem, Judges Fruitless Religion, and Exposes Rejected-Son Leadership Matthew 28 — The Resurrection of Jesus and the Great Commission of the Risen King

A.T. Robertson, Word Pictures in the New Testament (1930–31) — public domain

Sources

MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain

Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0

Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0

STEPBible Data — CC BY 4.0

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