שֵׂיבָה
sêybâh · say-baw'
old age
Lexicon
Derivation: feminine of H7869 (שֵׂיב);
old age
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (be) gray (grey hoar,-y) hairs (head,-ed), old age.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › the hand that works › the house, what is within › to reveal, behold
To consume, to destroy of the hand that works of the house, what is within that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שֵׂיבָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
19 occurrences · 19 OT · 0 NT · 13 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- old age4 · 21%
- my gray hairs2 · 11%
- the hoary head2 · 11%
- the gray hairs1 · 5%
- of gray hairs1 · 5%
- of thine old age1 · 5%
- and let not his hoar head1 · 5%
- unto him; but his hoar head1 · 5%
- to be hoary1 · 5%
- and grayheaded1 · 5%
- in old age1 · 5%
- is the gray head1 · 5%
- i am he; and even to hoar hairs1 · 5%
- it not: yea, gray hairs1 · 5%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.