STRONGS NUMBER H7867


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
be grayheaded

A primitive root; properly, to become aged, i.e. (by implication) to grow gray -- (be) grayheaded.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7867. sib

שִׂיבverb be hoary (Late Hebrew שֵׂיבָהold age; Assyrian šêbu, aged man; Arabic () become hoary, Ethiopic (in derivatives); Aramaic סִיבbe old; grow old, grey hair); —

Qal Perfect1singular וָשַׂ֫בְתִּי זָקַנְתִּי1 Samuel 12:2; Participle שָׂבJob 15:10 (+ יָשִׁישׁaged).