Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H1361
גָּבַהּ
ga.vah · “to exult”
Used 34 times across 10 books
Definition
1) to be high, be exalted
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be high, lofty, tall
1a2) to be exalted
1a3) to be lofty
1a3a) to be lofty (of Jehovah's ways-good sense)
1a3b) to be haughty, be arrogant (bad sense)
1b) (Hiphil) to make high, exalt
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to be high, lofty, tall
1a2) to be exalted
1a3) to be lofty
1a3a) to be lofty (of Jehovah's ways-good sense)
1a3b) to be haughty, be arrogant (bad sense)
1b) (Hiphil) to make high, exalt
Where it appears
1 Samuel1
2 Chronicles4
Job4
Psalms3
Proverbs2
Isaiah6
Jeremiah2
Ezekiel10
Obadiah1
Zephaniah1
In the text
1 Samuel 10:23And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.2 Chronicles 17:6And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.2 Chronicles 26:16But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the Lord his God, and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense upon the altar of incense.2 Chronicles 32:25But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.2 Chronicles 33:14Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.Job 5:7Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.Job 35:5Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.Job 36:7He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.Job 39:27Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?Psalms 103:11For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
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