זָקָן zaqan

Hebrew word for “beard” · Strong’s H2206 · used 19 times in 18 verses

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Meaning

1) beard, chin; 1a) beard; 1b) chin

How it is translated

Glosses given for zaqan in context, with how often each is used:

• beard 19

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Leviticus 13 (2), 2 Samuel 10 (2), Leviticus 14 (1), Leviticus 19 (1), Leviticus 21 (1), 1 Samuel 17 (1), 1 Samuel 21 (1), 2 Samuel 20 (1), 1 Chronicles 19 (1), Ezra 9 (1)

Forms

• זקן 4
• הזקן 3
• בזקן 2
• זקנו 2
• זקנך 2
• זקנם 2
• זקנכם 2
• בזקנו 1
• וזקני 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with zaqan more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• רֹאשׁ rosh “head” 11
• גָּלַח galach “to shave” 5
• שֵׂעָר sear “hair” 4
• קׇרְחָה qorchah “bald spot” 3
• תַּעַר taar “razor” 2
• בֶּגֶד beged “garment” 3
• גָּרַע gara “to dimish” 2
• צָמַח tsamach “to spring” 2
• כָּלַם kalam “be humiliated” 2
• יְרִיחוֹ yericho “Jericho” 2
• פֵּאָה peah “side” 2
• קָרַע qara “to tear” 2

Key verses

The verses using zaqan that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Leviticus 13:29 — If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;
• Leviticus 14:9 — But it shall be on the seventh day, that he shall shave all his hair off his head and his beard and his eyebrows, even all his hair he shall shave off: and he…
• Leviticus 19:27 — Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
• Leviticus 21:5 — They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.
• 1 Samuel 17:35 — And I went out after him, and smote him, and delivered it out of his mouth: and when he arose against me, I caught him by his beard, and smote him, and slew…
• 2 Samuel 20:9 — And Joab said to Amasa, Art thou in health, my brother? And Joab took Amasa by the beard with the right hand to kiss him.
• Ezra 9:3 — And when I heard this thing, I rent my garment and my mantle, and plucked off the hair of my head and of my beard, and sat down astonied.
• Psalms 133:2 — It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron’s beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments;
• Isaiah 7:20 — In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet:…
• Isaiah 15:2 — He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every…
• Jeremiah 41:5 — That there came certain from Shechem, from Shiloh, and from Samaria, even fourscore men, having their beards shaven, and their clothes rent, and having cut…
• Jeremiah 48:37 — For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.