Strong’s H7872 · Hebrew
שֵׂיבָה
sêybâh · say-baw'
Origin feminine of שֵׂיב (H7869);
Meaning old age
In the King James Version (be) gray (grey hoar,-y) hairs (head,-ed), old age.
In 19 verses of the King James Version
- Genesis 15:15And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
- Genesis 25:8Then Abraham gave up the ghost, and died in a good old age, an old man, and full of years; and was gathered to his people.
- Genesis 42:38And he said, My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he is left alone: if mischief befall him by the way in the which ye go, then shall ye bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
- Genesis 44:29And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
- Genesis 44:31It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.
- Leviticus 19:32Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 32:25The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
- Judges 8:32And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.
- Ruth 4:15And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.
- 1 Kings 2:6Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.
- 1 Kings 2:9Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.
- 1 Chronicles 29:28And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.
- Job 41:32He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
- Psalms 71:18Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
- Psalms 92:14They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
- Proverbs 16:31The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
- Proverbs 20:29The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.
- Isaiah 46:4And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
- Hosea 7:9Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.