Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
greyheaded
Usage: 1) age, gray hair, hoary head, old age 1a) gray hair, hoary head 1b) old age
Seybah means “old age” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H7872 שֵׂיבָּה (seybah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. seybah (say-baw') n-f. 1. old age [feminine of H7869] It has 19 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include old, gray, hoar, and head. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
seybah (say-baw') n-f. 1. old age [feminine of H7869] KJV: (be) gray (grey hoar,-y) hairs (head,-ed), old age. Root(s): H7869
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greyheaded
Usage: 1) age, gray hair, hoary head, old age 1a) gray hair, hoary head 1b) old age
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render seybah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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19 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
Then 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.
And 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.
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H7872.
And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.
Then 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.
And 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.
And if ye take this also from me, and mischief befall him, ye shall bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave.
It 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.
Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head, and honour the face of the old man, and fear thy God: I am the LORD.
The sword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs.
And 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 Abiezrites.
And 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.
Do therefore according to thy wisdom, and let not his hoar head go down to the grave in peace.
Now therefore hold him not guiltless: for thou art a wise man, and knowest what thou oughtest to do unto him; but his hoar head bring thou down to the grave with blood.
And he died in a good old age, full of days, riches, and honour: and Solomon his son reigned in his stead.
He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.
Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.
They shall still bring forth fruit in old age; they shall be fat and flourishing;
The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.
The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the grey head.
And even to your old age I am he; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you: I have made, and I will bear; even I will carry, and will deliver you.
Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, yet he knoweth not.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H7872, grouped by book.
Seybah (Strong's H7872) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "old age". seybah (say-baw') n-f. 1. old age [feminine of H7869]
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's H7872 across 12 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H7872 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as old, gray, hoar, and head. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.