שֵׂיבָה
sêybâh · H7872 · Hebrew · 19 occurrences
Meanings
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grey hair, old age
State in which humans have grey hair as a result of having advanced in age
ExamplesGenesis 15:15 “As for you, you shall go to your fathers in peace; you will be buried at a good old age.
Genesis 25:8 Abraham breathed his last and died at a good old age, an old man and satisfied with life; and he was gathered to his people.
Genesis 42:38 But Jacob said, “My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm should happen to him on the journey you are taking, then you will bring my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow.”
How it’s used In 8 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
6 occurrences in 4 groups
- יmy 2
- הוּhis 2
- עֶבֶדservant, slave 1
- ךְyour 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
4 occurrences in 1 groups
- טוֹבgood 4
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- זָרַקto scatter 1
What is done to itIt is the object
6 occurrences in 2 groups
- יָרַדto go down, to come down 5
- כּוּלto provide for, to contain 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֲטָרָהcrown 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָדָרmajesty 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
8 occurrences in 3 groups
- בin/on/with 11
- עַדto, as far as, until 4
- לto/for 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- אִישׁman, person, each 1
- פָּנִיםface, presence, before 1
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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Near synonyms 2 words
- זָקֻן zâqun · H2208 · old age(s)
- Both are nouns for old age. זָקֻן (zâqun, H2208) denotes old age, whereas שֵׂיבָה (sêybâh, H7872) denotes gray hairs or old age. Both can refer to the state of being old.
- זִקְנָה ziqnâh · H2209 · old age
- Both denote old age as a state or condition: שֵׂיבָה (sêybâh, H7872) means "gray hairs" or "old age," and the other word means "old age."
In the other Testament 1 word
- γῆρας gēras · G1094 · old age
- Greek γῆρας (gēras, G1094) denotes the abstract state of old age/senility, while Hebrew שֵׂיבָה (sêybâh, H7872) can denote both the concrete sign of aging (gray hair/hoary head) and the state of old age itself; the terms overlap in their abstract 'old age' sense where the LXX translators chose to render the Hebrew concept with the Greek abstraction.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Old002001001041
- The noun for gray hair or old age, used repeatedly of the patriarchs' peaceful deaths "at a good old age" (Genesis 15:15, 25:8) and of Jacob's fear that grief would bring "my gray hair down to Sheol in sorrow" (Genesis 42:38, 44:29, 44:31).
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7872. sebah שֵׂיבָה noun feminine hoary head, old age; — absolute ׳שׂ Hos 7:9 +;…
שֵׂיבָה noun feminine hoary head, old age; — absolute ׳שׂ Hos 7:9 +; construct שֵׂיבַת Gen 44:31; suffix שֵׂיבָתִי Gen 42:38; Gen 44:29, etc.; —
1 grey hair, hoary Hos 7:9(figurative), Gen 42:38; Gen 44:29, Gen 44:31(all J), 1Ki 2:6, 1Ki 2:9; Pro 16:31; Pro 20:29; שׂ ׳אִישׁ Deu 32:25 (opposed to יוֺנֵק); || זָקִן Lev 19:32 (H), || זִקְנָה Isa 46:4, + id. Psa 71:18 (in these transition to following); figurative of sea Job 41:24.
2 old age, ׳שׂ טוֺבָה Gen 15:15 (JE), Gen 25:8 (P), Jdg 8:32; 1Ch 29:28; ׳שׂ also Psa 92:15 (trees, in figure of righteous), Rth 4:15, + 2Sa 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)).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
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