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Pride

שַׁ֫חַץStrong’s H7830

shachats (sha-chats)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Shachats is the Hebrew word usually translated “pride”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“The lion’s whelps have not trodden it, nor the fierce lion passed by it.”
Job 28:8 KJV
Meaning
  1. Dignity, pridemajestic wild beasts
How it's translated
  • pride 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Job 2

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

שַׁ֫חַץ shachats · pride

1) dignity, pride 1a) majestic wild beasts

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

  1. 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
  2. Insolence; rude treatment of others; insolent exultation.
  3. Generous elation of heart; a noble self-esteem springing from a consciousness of worth.
  4. Elevation; loftiness.
All definitions and other forms of “pride”
  1. Decoration; ornament; beauty displayed.
  2. Splendid show; ostentation.
  3. That of which men are proud; that which excites boasting.“I will cut off the pride of the Philistines” Zechariah 9:6
  4. Excitement of the sexual appetite in a female beast.
  5. 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.