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Grizzled

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GREEK · G8845

πολιός

polios — gray hair

1. gray, grizzled, grisly , of wolves, of iron, of the sea, (Iliad by Homer) 2. mostly of hair, gray or hoary from age, (Homer); πολιοί gray-haired men , (Odyssey by Homer), etc.:—;absolute, αἱ πολιαί (i.e. τρίχες); (Pindar); ἅμα ταῖς πολιαῖς κατιούσαις as the gray hairs come down (i.e. from the temples to the beard), (Aristophanes Comicus); π. δάκρυον ἐμβαλών an old man's tear, (Euripides) 3. metaphorically hoary, venerable , (Euripides) 4. like λευκός, bright, clear, serene , (Hesiod) (ML)

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Historical dictionary entry

Party-coloured, as goats (Gen. 31:10, 12), horses (Zech. 6:3, 6).

Scripture references

Source: Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897). Historical dictionary wording reflects the scholarship and language of its era.

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