To exult
גָּבַהּStrong’s H1361gavah (ga-vah)
Appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gavah is the Hebrew word usually translated “it was haughty”, “are high” and “make high”. It appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament.
“And 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.”
Meaning
- To be high, be exalted(Qal) · (Hiphil) to make high, exalt
How it's translated
- it was haughty 3
- they are high 3
- you will make high 2
- and he was tall 1
- and it was high 1
- and he made high it 1
- they make high 1
- and they have become exalted 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 10
- Isaiah 5
- 2 Chronicles 4
- Job 4
- Psalms 3
- Proverbs 2
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 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.
Hebrew dictionary
גָּבַהּ gavah · to exult
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
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.