Word Study · Strong's H7867 · Hebrew
שִׂיב
sib
seeb
Strong's 1890 spelling: sîyb
“properly, to become aged, i.e. (by implication) to grow gray”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
properly, to become aged, i.e. (by implication) to grow gray
Rendered in the KJV as
(be) grayheaded.
- 2occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 2 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 2inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 2 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 2
- וָשַׂ֔בְתִּי1
- שָׂ֣ב1
How it is rendered · 2
- [the] gray haired1
- and I am gray haired1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), completed action · 1st person common singular1
- verb · simple (qal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HC/Vqp1cs · 1
- HVqrmsa · 1
All 2, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
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Same headword in Strong's
