King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H7872
Transliteration: sebah
Phonetic Spelling: (say-baw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: hoary head, old age
Meaning: hoary head, old age
Word Summary
sebah: hoary head, old age
Original Word: שֵׂיבָהTransliteration: sebah
Phonetic Spelling: (say-baw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: hoary head, old age
Meaning: hoary head, old age
Strong's Concordance
be gray grey hoar, old age Feminine of seyb; old age -- (be) gray (grey hoar,-y) hairs (head,-ed), old age.
see HEBREW seyb
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H7872. sebah
שֵׂיבָה noun feminine hoary head, old age; — absolute ׳שׂ Hosea 7:9 +; construct שֵׂיבַת Genesis 44:31; suffix שֵׂיבָתִי 42:38; 44:29, etc.; —
1 grey hair, hoary Hosea 7:9(figurative), Genesis 42:38; 44:29, 31(all J), 1 Kings 2:6, 9; Proverbs 16:31; 20:29; שׂ ׳אִישׁ Deuteronomy 32:25 (opposed to יוֺנֵק); "" זָקִן Leviticus 19:32 (H), "" זִקְנָה Isaiah 46:4, + id. Psalm 71:18 (in these transition to following); figurative of sea Job 41:24.
2 old age, ׳שׂ טוֺבָה Genesis 15:15 (JE), 25:8 (P), Judges 8:32; 1 Chronicles 29:28; ׳שׂ also Psalm 92:15 (trees, in figure of righteous), Ruth 4:15, + 2 Samuel 19:34 (ᵐ5 Ew Th Bu Kit, compare We Dr HPS, אֶתשֵֿׂיבָֽתְךָ, for אֹתְךָ).
שִׂיג see [I. סוג].
שׂיד (√ of following: Late Hebrew סִיד lime, סַיָּד white-washer; Aramaic סִידָא, lime, Arabic (not loan-word, compare Frä8)).