Pride
גַּאֲוָהStrong’s H1346gaavah (ga-a-vah)
Appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gaavah is the Hebrew word usually translated “pride”, “haughtiness its” and “majesty his”. It appears in 19 verses of the Old Testament.
“There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.”
Meaning
- Pride, majesty, a rising upa rising up, swelling (of the sea) · majesty (of Israel) · pride, haughtiness
How it's translated
- pride 5
- with pride 2
- haughtiness its 2
- and in majesty his 1
- eminence your 1
- in pride of 1
- at swelling its 1
- majesty his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 7
- Isaiah 5
- Deuteronomy 2
- Proverbs 2
- Job 1
- Jeremiah 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 33:29Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the LORD, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
- Job 41:15His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
- Psalms 10:2The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
- Psalms 31:18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
- Psalms 31:23O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
- Psalms 36:11Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
Hebrew dictionary
גַּאֲוָה gaavah · pride
1) pride, majesty, a rising up 1a) a rising up, swelling (of the sea) 1b) majesty (of Israel) 1c) pride, haughtiness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pride” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PRIDE, noun
- Inordinate self-esteem; an unreasonable conceit of one's own superiority in talents, beauty, wealth, accomplishments, rank or elevation in office, which manifests itself in lofty airs, distance, reserve, and often in contempt of others.“PRIDE goeth before destruction” Proverbs 16:18“Those that walk in pride he is able to abase” Daniel 4:37
- Insolence; rude treatment of others; insolent exultation.
- Generous elation of heart; a noble self-esteem springing from a consciousness of worth.
- Elevation; loftiness.
All definitions and other forms of “pride”
- Decoration; ornament; beauty displayed.
- Splendid show; ostentation.
- That of which men are proud; that which excites boasting.“I will cut off the pride of the Philistines” Zechariah 9:6
- Excitement of the sexual appetite in a female beast.
- Proud persons. Psalms 36:11
PRIDE, verb transitive
With the reciprocal pronoun, to pride one's self, to indulge pride; to take pride; to value one's self; to gratify self-esteem. They pride themselves in their wealth, dress or equipage. He prides himself in his achievements.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.