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שֵׂיב

sev

age

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Strong’s H7869Noun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

old age1

In the text

1 Kings 14:4מִשֵּׂיבוֹ ס
Jeroboam’s wife did as instructed; she arose and went to Shiloh and arrived at Ahijah’s house. Now Ahijah could not see, for his eyes were dim because of his age.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[שֵׂיב] n.[m.] (hoary) age;—sf. 1 K 14:4.

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.