Lexical Summary sib: to be hoary Original Word: שִׂיבTransliteration: sib Phonetic Spelling: (seeb) Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to be hoary Meaning: to become aged, to grow gray Strong's Concordance be grayheaded A primitive root; properly, to become aged, i.e. (by implication) to grow gray -- (be) grayheaded. Brown-Driver-Briggs H7867. sib שִׂיב verb be hoary (Late Hebrew שֵׂיבָה old age; Assyrian šêbu, aged man; Arabic () become hoary, Ethiopic (in derivatives); Aramaic סִיב be old; grow old, grey hair); — Qal Perfect1singular וָשַׂ֫בְתִּי זָקַנְתִּי 1 Samuel 12:2; Participle שָׂב Job 15:10 (+ יָשִׁישׁ aged). |