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# שִׂיב

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7867

**be hoary** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

be hoary [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7867/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שִׂיב: vb. be hoary [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7867/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be hoary (NH שֵׂיבָה old age; Assyrian šêbu, aged man; Arabic شَابَ (ى) become hoary, Ethiopic ሤበ (in deriv.); Aramaic סִיב be old; ܣܶܐܒ grow old, ܣܰܝ̈ܒܳܬܳܐ grey hair);— Pf. 1 s. זָקַנְתִּי וָשַׂ֫בְתִּי 1 S 12:2; Pt. שָׂב Jb 15:10 (+ יָשִׁישׁ aged).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (11 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I am gray haired (1); \[the\] gray haired (1).

## In the verses

[Job 15:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.10/#tree)

גַּם־שָׂ֣ב גַּם־יָשִׁ֣ישׁ בָּ֑נוּ כַּבִּ֖יר מֵאָבִ֣יךָ יָמִֽים׃

*Word for word:* both \[the\].gray.haired as.well.as \[the\].aged \[are\].among us \[one\].old more than your.father days

*JPS 1917:* With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much older than thy father.

[1 Samuel 12:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.12.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.12.2/#tree)

וְעַתָּ֞ה הִנֵּ֥ה הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ ׀ מִתְהַלֵּ֣ךְ לִפְנֵיכֶ֗ם וַאֲנִי֙ זָקַ֣נְתִּי וָשַׂ֔בְתִּי וּבָנַ֖י הִנָּ֣ם אִתְּכֶ֑ם וַאֲנִי֙ הִתְהַלַּ֣כְתִּי לִפְנֵיכֶ֔ם מִנְּעֻרַ֖י עַד־הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and now here! the king \[is\].walking.about before you and I I.am.old and I.am.gray.haired and sons my here they \[are\].with you and I I.have.walked.about before you since youth(s) my until the day (the) this

*JPS 1917:* And now, behold, the king walketh before you; and I am old and grayheaded; and, behold, my sons are with you; and I have walked before you from my youth unto this day.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7867.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7867/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).