Beard
זָקָןStrong’s H2206zaqan (za-qan)
Appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zaqan is the Hebrew word usually translated “beard your”, “beard” and “beard his”. It appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament.
“If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;”
Meaning
- Beard, chinbeard · chin
How it's translated
- beard your 4
- the beard 3
- beard 3
- beard his 2
- beard their 2
- in beard 1
- on beard its 1
- on beard of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 5
- 2 Samuel 3
- 1 Samuel 2
- Isaiah 2
- Jeremiah 2
- 1 Chronicles 1
9 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 13:30Then the priest shall see the plague: and, behold, if it be in sight deeper than the skin; and there be in it a yellow thin hair; then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a dry scall, even a leprosy upon the head or beard.
- Leviticus 14:9But 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 shall wash his clothes, also he shall wash his flesh in water, and he shall be clean.
- Leviticus 19:27Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.
- Leviticus 21:5They 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 17:35And 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 him.
- 1 Samuel 21:13And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard.
Hebrew dictionary
זָקָן zaqan · beard
1) beard, chin 1a) beard 1b) chin
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “beard” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BEARD, noun
berd. [Latin barba.]
- The hair that grows on the chin, lips and adjacent parts of the face, chiefly of male adults; hence a mark of virility.
- beard is sometimes used for the face, and to do a thing to a man's beard is to do it in defiance, or to his face.
- The awn or sharp prickles on the ears of corn.
- A barb or sharp point of an arrow, or other instrument, bent backward from the end to prevent its being easily drawn out.
All definitions and other forms of “beard”
- The beard or chuck of a horse, is that part which bears the curb of a bridle, underneath the lower mandible and above the chin.
- The rays of a comet, emitted towards that part of the heaven to which its proper motion seems to direct it.
- The threads or hairs of an oyster, muscle or similar shell-fish, by which they fasten themselves to stones.
- In insects, two small, oblong, fleshy bodies, placed just above the trunk, as in gnats, moths and butterflies.
BEARD, verb transitive
berd. To take by the beard; to seize, pluck, or pull the beard in contempt or anger.
- To oppose to the face; to set at defiance.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.