Strong's Hebrew · H2204
H2204 zâqên
זָקֵן
zaw-kane'
aged man, be (wax) old (man).
When zâqên is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.
Definition
to be old
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 27 times in Scripture
“Now here is the king walking before you, and I am old and gray, and my sons are here with you. I have walked before you from my youth until this day.”
“One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.”
“When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.”
“By now Abraham was old and well along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.”
“I once was young and now am old, yet never have I seen the righteous abandoned or their children begging for bread.”
“A long time after the LORD had given Israel rest from all the enemies around them, when Joshua was old and well along in years,”
“Now King David was old and well along in years, and though they covered him with blankets, he could not keep warm.”
“And the LORD asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Can I really bear a child when I am old?’”
“So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?””
““Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.”
When zâqên is spoken over you
Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what zâqên means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.
Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against verses like 1 Samuel 12:2 with people you trust, and return to it in a year to see what came of it.
Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).