# H7868 שִׂיב

שִׂיב (sîyb), Strong’s H7868: {properly, to become aged, i.e. (by implication) to grow gray} KJV: elder.. Occurs 5 times.

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*sîyb* — {properly, to become aged, i.e. (by implication) to grow gray}

KJV: elder.

Occurs 5 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [שִׂיב] vb. be hoary

## Where it occurs
- [Ezra 5:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/5?v=5) — But the eye of their God was on the Jewish elders, and they didn’t make them cease until the matter should come to…
- [Ezra 5:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/5?v=9) — Then we asked those elders, and said to them thus, “Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?”
- [Ezra 6:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/6?v=7) — Leave the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the Jewish elders build this house of God…
- [Ezra 6:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/6?v=8) — Moreover I make a decree regarding what you shall do for these Jewish elders for the building of this house of God…
- [Ezra 6:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezra/6?v=14) — The Jewish elders built and prospered, through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo…