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title: שֵׂיב — age · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שֵׂיב (7869), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: age. BDB 1906: age. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שֵׂיב

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«שֵׂיב» in the Tanakh dictionary: **age** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 7869 · **BDB:** שֵׂיב

### Glosses

his.old (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

age [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7869/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

age [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7869/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] (hoary) age;—sf. שֵׂיבוֹ 1 K 14:4.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (16 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (11 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שֵׂיב» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7869/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[1 Kings 14:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.14.4/)

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וַתַּ֤עַשׂ כֵּן֙ אֵ֣שֶׁת יָרָבְעָ֔ם וַתָּ֙קָם֙ וַתֵּ֣לֶךְ שִׁלֹ֔ה וַתָּבֹ֖א בֵּ֣ית אֲחִיָּ֑ה וַאֲחִיָּ֙הוּ֙ לֹֽא־יָכֹ֣ל לִרְא֔וֹת כִּ֛י קָ֥מוּ עֵינָ֖יו מִשֵּׂיבֽוֹ׃ס

*Word for word:* and she.did thus the.wife of.Jeroboam and she.arose and she.went Shiloh and she.went the.house of.Ahijah and Ahijah not he.was.able to see (dm) they.were.fixed eyes his from his.old age

*JPS 1917:* And Jeroboam's wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. Now Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age.

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