Genesis 42:38
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.
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Hairs
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Revelation 1:14
His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
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שֵׂיבָה
sêybâh · say-baw'
6 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
old age
Strong's KJV usage: (be) gray (grey hoar,-y) hairs (head,-ed), old age.
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Strong's first: Genesis 42:38Strong's last: Hosea 7:9
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thríx · threeks
5 times translated as this KJV form19 total Strong's occurrences
of uncertain derivation; hair
Strong's KJV usage: :--hair.
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Strong's first: Matthew 10:30Strong's last: Revelation 1:14
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saʻărâh · sah-ar-aw'
2 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
hairiness
Strong's KJV usage: hair.
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Strong's first: Psalms 40:12Strong's last: Psalms 69:4
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sᵉʻar · seh-ar'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
hair
Strong's KJV usage: hair.
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Strong's first: Daniel 4:33Strong's last: Daniel 4:33
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sêʻâr · say-awr'
1 times translated as this KJV form28 total Strong's occurrences
hair (as if tossed or bristling)
Strong's KJV usage: hair(-y), × rough.
Strong's first: Leviticus 13:21Strong's last: Leviticus 13:21
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G2359
His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;
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hair
HAIR, noun
1. A small filament issuing from the skin of an animal, and from a bulbous root. Each filament contains a tube or hollow within, occupied by a pulp or pith, which is intended for its nutrition, and extends only to that part which is in a state of growth.
When hair means a single filament, it has a plural, hairs.
2. The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming an integument or covering; as the hair of the head. hair is the common covering of many beasts. When the filaments are very fine and short, the collection of them is called fur. Wool, also, is a kind of hair When hair signifies a collection of these animal filaments, it has no plural.
3. Any thing very small or fine; or a very small distance; the breadth of a hair He judges to a hair that is, very exactly.
4. A trifling value. It is not worth a hair
5. Course; order; grain; the hair falling in a certain direction. [Not used.]
You go against the hair of your profession.
6. Long, straight and distinct filaments on the surface of plants; a species of down or pubescence.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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