STRONGS NUMBER H7868


Word Summary
sib: to be hoary
Original Word: שִׂיב
Transliteration: sib
Phonetic Spelling: (seeb)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be hoary
Meaning: to become aged, to grow gray
Strong's Concordance
elder

(Aramaic) corresponding to siyb -- elder.

see HEBREW siyb

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7868. sib

[שִׂיב‎] verb be hoary (see Biblical Hebrew); —

Pe`al Participle plural as substantive = elders, technical term, absolute יְהוּדָיֵא שָׂבֵיEzra 5:5; 6:7-8, 14; so emphatic שָׂבַיָּא5:9.