Lexicon sib: to be hoary Original Word: שִׂיבPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: sib Phonetic Spelling: (seeb) Short Definition: gray NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origina prim. root Definitionto be hoary NASB Translationgray (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). Strong's be grayheaded A primitive root; properly, to become aged, i.e. (by implication) to grow gray -- (be) grayheaded. |
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