seva · old age, gray hair

What it means

seva (שֵׂיבָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “old age, gray hair”.

How to say it

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

1. White hair, a sign of honored years.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• gray hair ×13
• old age ×6

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×5
• Leviticus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×1
• Ruth×1
• 1 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×1
• Hosea×1

• Genesis 15:15

  As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age.

• Genesis 25:8

  Abraham breathed his last and died in a good old age, old and satisfied, and he was gathered to his people.

• Genesis 42:38

  But he said, “My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm should befall him on the journey you are making, you would bring down my gray hair in sorrow to Sheol.”

• Genesis 44:29

  If you take this one also from me and harm befalls him, you will bring down my gray hair in misery to Sheol.’

• Genesis 44:31

  when he sees that the young man is not there, he will die, and your servants will bring down the gray hair of your servant our father in sorrow to Sheol.

• Leviticus 19:32

  You shall rise before gray hair, and honor the face of an old man, and fear your Elohim. I am YHWH.

• Deuteronomy 32:25

  Outside the sword will bereave, and in the inner rooms terror, both young man and virgin, the nursing child with the man of gray hair.

• Judges 8:32

  Gideon son of Joash died at a good old age and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.

• Ruth 4:15

  He will be to you one who brings back the soul and one who sustains your old age; for your daughter-in-law who loves you has borne him, she who is better to you than seven sons.”

• 1 Kings 2:6

  So act according to your wisdom, and do not bring down his gray hair in peace to Sheol.

• 1 Kings 2:9

  But now do not leave him unpunished, for you are a wise man, and you will know what you should do to him, and you shall bring down his gray hair with blood to Sheol.”

• 1 Chronicles 29:28

  He died in a good old age, satisfied with days, riches, and glory; and Solomon his son reigned in his place.

• Job 41:32

  Behind it it makes shine a path; one would take the deep for gray hair.

• Psalms 71:18

  And even to old age and gray hair, Elohim, do not abandon me, until I declare your arm to the generation, to all who are to come, your might.

• Psalms 92:14

  They will still bear fruit in old age; they will be vigorous and green,

• Proverbs 16:31

  A crown of beauty is gray hair; in the way of righteousness it is found.

• Proverbs 20:29

  The beauty of young men is their strength, and the majesty of the old is gray hair.

• Isaiah 46:4

  and until old age I am the same, and until gray hair I will bear you; I have made you, and I will carry, and I will bear, and rescue.

• Hosea 7:9

  Strangers have devoured his strength, and he does not know it; gray hair also is sprinkled on him, and he does not know it.