Loftiness
שִׂיאStrong’s H7863si
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Si is the Hebrew word usually translated “loftiness his”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds;”
Meaning
- Loftiness (of pride)
How it's translated
- loftiness his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
שִׂיא si · loftiness
loftiness (of pride)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “loftiness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
LOFT'INESS, noun
- Height; elevation in place or position; altitude; as the loftiness of a mountain.
- Pride; haughtiness.
- Elevation of attitude or mien; as loftiness of carriage.
- Sublimity; elevation of diction or sentiment.
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.