King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H7867
Transliteration: sib
Phonetic Spelling: (seeb)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be hoary
Meaning: to become aged, to grow gray
Word Summary
sib: to be hoary
Original Word: שִׂיבTransliteration: sib
Phonetic Spelling: (seeb)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be hoary
Meaning: to become aged, to grow gray
Strong's Concordance
be grayheaded A primitive root; properly, to become aged, i.e. (by implication) to grow gray -- (be) grayheaded.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H7867. sib
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 וָשַׂ֫בְתִּי זָקַנְתִּי 1 Samuel 12:2; Participle שָׂב Job 15:10 (+ יָשִׁישׁ aged).