Arrogant
עָתָקStrong’s H6277ataq (a-taq)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Ataq is the Hebrew word usually translated “arrogance”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by him actions are weighed.”
Meaning
- Forward, bold, arrogantof speech
How it's translated
- arrogance 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 3
- 1 Samuel 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 31:18Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
- Psalms 75:5Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
- Psalms 94:4How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
Hebrew dictionary
עָתָק ataq · arrogant
1) forward, bold, arrogant 1a) of speech
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “arrogant” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
AR'ROGANT, adjective
- Assuming; making or having the disposition to make exorbitant claims of rank or estimation; giving one's self an undue degree of importance; haughty; conceited; applied to persons.
- Containing arrogance; marked with arrogance; proceeding from undue claims of self importance; applied to things; as arrogant pretensions or behavior.
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.