Strong's Hebrew · H2205
H2205 zâqên
זָקֵן
zaw-kane'
aged, ancient (man), elder(-est), old (man, men and...women), senator.
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
old
Derivation
from H2204 (זָקֵן);
Appears 178 times in Scripture
“And Abraham and Sarah were already old and well along in years; Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.”
“Then Joseph went to bury his father, and all the servants of Pharaoh accompanied him—the elders of Pharaoh’s household and all the elders of the land of Egypt—”
“And at a ripe old age he breathed his last and died, old and contented, and was gathered to his people.”
“He asked if they were well, and then he asked, “How is your elderly father you told me about? Is he still alive?””
“Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.”
“Then he breathed his last and died and was gathered to his people, old and full of years. And his sons Esau and Jacob buried him.”
“Before they had gone to bed, all the men of the city of Sodom, both young and old, surrounded the house.”
“So Abraham instructed the chief servant of his household, who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,”
“And we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’”
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 Genesis 18:11 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).