To become old/ turn grey

The hair on his head turned gray. Gray hair was green in his hair. In the question: He grew a beard.

("He who has broken the covenant with his son-in-law and untied his leg, she will sit until her head is covered with thorns" - as written in the 1st chapter of the book of the Law of Moses, and so: "The greatness of Tel Aviv is surrounded by butterflies/ Everything in it is prepared and tested./ We have built in it like a millstone, the shekels are forgotten/ And the shekels are covered with thorns, their heads are like dust" - Yitzhak Yitzhak/ The Garden of Shekels)

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