Height
גֹּ֫בַהּStrong’s H1363govah (go-vah)
Appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Govah is the Hebrew word usually translated “height his”, “height” and “haughtiness of”. It appears in 16 verses of the Old Testament.
“And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.”
Meaning
- Height, exaltationheight · exaltation, grandeur · haughtiness
How it's translated
- height his 2
- and height 2
- and the height 1
- in haughtiness of 1
- heights of 1
- height of 1
- and dignity 1
- according to haughtiness of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 6
- Job 3
- 2 Chronicles 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- Psalms 1
- Proverbs 1
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Chronicles 3:4And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
- 2 Chronicles 32:26Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the LORD came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.
- Job 11:8It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?
- Job 22:12Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!
- Job 40:10Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.
- Psalms 10:4The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.
Hebrew dictionary
גֹּ֫בַהּ govah · height
1) height, exaltation 1a) height 1b) exaltation, grandeur 1c) haughtiness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “dignity” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DIGNITY, noun
[Latin, worthy.]
- True honor; nobleness or elevation of mind, consisting in a high sense of propriety, truth and justice, with an abhorrence of mean and sinful actions; opposed to meanness.
- Elevation; honorable place or rank of elevation; degree of excellence, either in estimation, or in the order of nature.
- Elevation of aspect; grandeur of mein; as a man of native dignity
- Elevation of deportment; as dignity of manners or behavior.
All definitions
- An elevated office, civil or ecclesiastical, giving a high rank in society; advancement; preferment, or the rank attached to it.
- The rank or title of a nobleman.
- In oratory, one of the three parts of elocution, consisting in the right use of tropes and figures.
- In astrology, an advantage which a planet has on account of its being in some particular place of the zodiac, or in a particular station in respect to other planets.
- A general maxim, or principle. [Not used.]
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.