שִׂיב
siv · be gray-haired
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7867 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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siv (שִׂיב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be gray-haired”.
To have gray hair, to grow old.
How to say it
siv
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To have hair whitened by age.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 1 Samuel 12:2
And now, look, the king walks before you, and I am old and gray, and my sons, look, they are with you. And I have walked before you from my youth until this day.
- Job 15:10
Both the gray-haired and the very aged are among us, older than your father in days.