Word

שִׂיב

sîyb · H7868 · Aramaic · 5 occurrences

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Meanings

elder

A council or a group of older men who act with authority on behalf of or over their people; some represent an entire nation, others manage the affairs at the town level; some provide their leader with counsel; involved in both judicial and military decisions, and participating in cultic ceremonies; expected to be wise and considered worthy of deference and respect

Examples
Ezra 5:5 But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until the report could reach Darius, and then the decree concerning it could be sent back.
Ezra 5:9 “Then we asked those elders and said to them as follows: ‘Who issued you a decree to rebuild this temple and to finish this structure?’
Ezra 6:7 “Leave that work on the house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews rebuild that house of God on its site.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

4 occurrences in 1 groups

יְהוּדָאִיJew 4

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 1 groups

אִלֵּךְthese 2

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

בְּנָאbuild 2
צְלַחpromote 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 3 groups

לto/for 3
עַלon, upon, over, against 2
עִםby 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word

πρεσβύτερος presbýteros · G4245 · older, of ancient times: Greek term for elder/older person, used in LXX to render Hebrew references to aged or senior individuals; both terms denote seniority by age or office.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Leaders001001003005: Ezra 5:5 recounts that “the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until the report could reach Darius, and then the decree concerning it could be sent back.”

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

שִׂיב sîyb · H7867 · to be grey, to be old · 2×שֵׂיבָה sêybâh · H7872 · grey hair, old age · 19×שִׂיבsîyb · H7868שֵׂיב sêyb · H7869 · grey hair, old age · 1×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7868. sib [שִׂיב] verb be hoary (see Biblical Hebrew); — Pe`al Participle plural as…

H7868. sib
[שִׂיב] verb be hoary (see Biblical Hebrew); —
Pe`al Participle plural as substantive = elders, technical term, absolute יְהוּדָיֵא שָׂבֵי Ezr 5:5; Ezr 6:7-8, Ezr 6:14; so emphatic שָׂבַיָּא Ezr 5:9.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Leaders5 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0