Hebrew verb (Aramaic) · H7868
שִׂיב
sibseeb
be gray
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sîyb
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7868is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7868
{properly, to become aged, i.e. (by implication) to grow gray}
The King James renders it: elder.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
sib is rendered "be gray". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Five of the uses stand in Ezra, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Ezra 5:5But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, so that they were not stopped until a report was sent to Darius and written instructions about this matter were returned.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, so that they were not stopped until a report was sent to Darius and written instructions about this matter were returned.
Ezra 5:5שָׂבֵ֣י
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's five uses are in Ezra.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- elders of2
- and elders of1
- and to elders of1
- to elders the1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שִׂיחַ | siach | to muse | Uses20 |
| שִׂיחַ | siach | complaint | Uses13 |
| שִׂיד | sid | lime | Uses4 |
| שִׂיחַ | siach | bush | Uses4 |
| שִׂיחָה | sichah | meditation | Uses3 |
| שִׂיב | sib | be gray | Uses2 |
| שִׂיד | sid | to whitewash | Uses2 |
| שִׂיא | si | loftiness | Uses1 |
| שִׂיג | sig | pursuing | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וּלְשָׂבֵ֣י1
- וְשָׂבֵ֤י1
- לְשָׂבַיָּ֣א1
- שָׂבֵ֣י1
- שָׂבֵ֤י1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2ANcmpc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1AC/Ncmpc
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1AC/R/Ncmpc
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)1AR/Ncmpd/Ta
Ezra
five uses
But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, so that they were not stopped until a report was sent to Darius and written instructions about this matter were returned.
- שָׂבֵ֣יsaveinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: elders of
So we questioned the elders and asked, “Who authorized you to rebuild this temple and restore this structure?”
- לְשָׂבַיָּ֣אlesavaiya'preposition + noun · masculine plural · with the article + particle of affirmation (“surely”)tagged: to elders the
Leave this work on the house of God alone. Let the governor and elders of the Jews rebuild this house of God on its original site.
- וּלְשָׂבֵ֣יulesaveiconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and to elders of
I hereby decree what you must do for these elders of the Jews who are rebuilding this house of God: The cost is to be paid in full to these men from the royal treasury out of the taxes of the provinces west of the Euphrates, so that the work will not be hindered.
- שָׂבֵ֤יsaveinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: elders of
So the Jewish elders built and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah son of Iddo. They finished building according to the command of the God of Israel and the decrees of Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes, kings of Persia.
- וְשָׂבֵ֤יvesaveiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and elders of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.