זָקֵן zâqên — to be old
Translated in the KJV as aged man, be old.
a primitive root; to be old.
zâqên in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 24Wayyiqtol 1
Therefore Sarah laughed within herself, saying, After I am waxed old shall I have pleasure, my lord being old also?
And the Lord said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?
And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›