za.qan denotes the facial hair named in scenes of shaving, grooming, seizure, mourning, examination, and anointing.

The term consistently identifies facial hair: it is shaved or allowed to grow, examined in connection with a plague, grasped in an attack, plucked in desolation, and described as receiving descending oil.

1. Facial hair in bodily and social scenes · dominant

   The singular noun identifies the facial hair affected by concrete actions: in 2 Samuel 10:4 the APB renders servants' beard as shaved, while in 1 Samuel 17:35 it renders the beard seized during an attack. In Leviticus 13:29 the APB places it alongside the head as the location of a plague, and in Psalm 133:2 the repeated singular form occurs where oil descends upon Aaron's beard. Ezra 9:3 shows it in mourning, where the APB renders hair plucked from the head and beard.

   2 Samuel 10:41 Samuel 17:35Leviticus 13:29Psalm 133:2Ezra 9:3

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the supplied verses, the APB ordinarily presents the term as "beard" or "beards" in clauses about shaving, growth, seizure, plucking, examination, and descending oil. These English expressions confirm the verse-level presentation rather than establish a separate rendering for each form.