7867. sib
Lexicon
sib: To be gray, to grow old

Original Word: שִׂיב
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: siyb
Pronunciation: seeb
Phonetic Spelling: (seeb)
KJV: (be) grayheaded
NASB: gray, gray-haired
Word Origin: [a primitive root]

1. (properly) to become aged
2. (by implication) to grow gray

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
be grayheaded

A primitive root; properly, to become aged, i.e. (by implication) to grow gray -- (be) grayheaded.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
to be hoary
NASB Translation
gray (1), gray-haired (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
שִׂיב verb be hoary (Late Hebrew שֵׂיבָה old age; Assyrian šêbu, aged man; Arabic () become hoary, Ethiopic (in derivatives); Aramaic סִיב be old; grow old, grey hair); —

Qal Perfect1singular זָקַנְתִּי וָשַׂ֫בְתִּי 1 Samuel 12:2; Participle שָׂב Job 15:10 (+ יָשִׁישׁ aged).

Forms and Transliterations
וָשַׂ֔בְתִּי ושבתי שָׂ֣ב שב śāḇ sav vaSavti wā·śaḇ·tî wāśaḇtî
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Englishman's Concordance
1 Samuel 12:2
HEB: וַאֲנִי֙ זָקַ֣נְתִּי וָשַׂ֔בְתִּי וּבָנַ֖י הִנָּ֣ם
NAS: you, but I am old and gray, and behold
KJV: you: and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons
INT: I am you and gray my sons and behold

Job 15:10
HEB: גַּם־ שָׂ֣ב גַּם־ יָשִׁ֣ישׁ
NAS: Both the gray-haired and the aged
KJV: With us [are] both the grayheaded and very aged
INT: Both the gray-haired Both and the aged

2 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 7867
2 Occurrences


śāḇ — 1 Occ.
wā·śaḇ·tî — 1 Occ.

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