πολιά
gray hair, old age
Where this word appears
Every passage where πολιά appears in the Greek Septuagint — 7 occurrences in all. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text is shown in the LXX2012 (modern English Septuagint) for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Ruth 4:15 πολιά And he shall be to you a restorer of your soul, and one to cherish your old age; for your daughter-in-law which has loved you, who is better to you than seven sons, has born him.
- 1 Kings 2:6 πολιά Therefore you shall deal with him according to your wisdom, and you shall not bring down his grey hairs in peace to the grave.
- 1 Kings 2:9 πολιά But you shall by no means hold him guiltless, for you are a wise man, and will know what you shall do to him, and shall bring down his grey hairs with blood to the grave.
- 1 Kings 2:35 πολιά And the king appointed Banaeas son of Jodae in his place over the host; and the kingdom was established in Jerusalem; and as for Sadoc the priest, the king appointed him to be high priest in the room of Abiathar. And Solomon son of David reigned over Israel and Juda in Jerusalem: and the Lord gave understanding to Solomon, and very much wisdom, and largeness of heart, as the sand by the sea-shore.
- Proverbs 20:20 πολιά The lamp of him that reviles father or mother shall be put out, and his eyeballs shall see darkness.
- Isaiah 47:2 πολιά Take a millstone, grind meal: remove your veil, uncover your white hairs, make bare the leg, pass through the rivers.
- Hosea 7:9 πολιά Strangers devoured his strength, and he knew it not; and grey hairs came upon him, and he knew it not.
About this word
About this word
πολιά (poliá), “gray hair, old age,” is a word from the Greek Septuagint — the ancient Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament. It does not occur in the Greek New Testament, so it carries no Strong’s number from Thayer’s (New-Testament) lexicon; the gloss shown here is a curated modern-English sense rather than a Strong’s definition. It appears 7 times across the Septuagint — open the Appearances tab to read it in context.
The gloss above is Lemma’s own curated sense — this word carries no Strong’s number, so no lexicon we ship has an entry for it. The transliteration and this passage list are computed here from the tagged Septuagint text. What Lemma adds →