Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H7872

שֵׂיבָה

se.vah · “greyheaded”

Used 19 times across 12 books

Definition

1) age, gray hair, hoary head, old age
1a) gray hair, hoary head
1b) old age

Where it appears

Genesis

5

Leviticus

1

Deuteronomy

1

Judges

1

Ruth

1

1 Kings

2

1 Chronicles

1

Job

1

Psalms

2

Proverbs

2

Isaiah

1

Hosea

1

In the text

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 Abi–ezrites.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.

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