{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H7868",
  "lemma": "שִׂיב",
  "transliteration": "sîyb",
  "definition": "{properly, to become aged, i.e. (by implication) to grow gray}",
  "kjv": "elder.",
  "occurrences": 5,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[שִׂיב] vb. be hoary"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Ezra 5:5",
      "text": "But the eye of their God was on the Jewish elders, and they didn’t make them cease until the matter should come to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/5?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ezra 5:9",
      "text": "Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, “Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/5?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ezra 6:7",
      "text": "Leave the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the Jewish elders build this house of God…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/6?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ezra 6:8",
      "text": "Moreover I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these Jewish elders for the building of this house of God…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/6?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Ezra 6:14",
      "text": "The Jewish elders built and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/6?v=14"
    }
  ],
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