גָּאוֹןgâʼôwn
exaltation
Pronunciation: gaw-ohn' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1347
Meanings
1. exaltation, majesty, excellence
a. pride of her strength, majestic and beautiful (Ezekiel 32:12; Isaiah 13:11; Isaiah 13:19)
c. majesty of Jordan, swelling (Jeremiah 49:19; Jeremiah 50:44; Zechariah 11:3)
2. pride, (bad sense) (Job 35:12; Psalms 59:13; Proverbs 8:13)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 49 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 15:7 In the greatness of your majesty, you overthrow those who rise against you. You unleash your blazing fury; it consumes them like straw.
- Leviticus 26:19 I will break your proud spirit by making the skies as unyielding as iron and the earth as hard as bronze.
- Job 35:12 And when they cry out, God does not answer because of their pride.
- Job 37:4 Then comes the roaring of the thunder— the tremendous voice of his majesty. He does not restrain it when he speaks.
- Job 38:11 I said, ‘This far and no farther will you come. Here your proud waves must stop!’
- Job 40:10 All right, put on your glory and splendor, your honor and majesty.
See every passage
- Exodus 15:7
- Leviticus 26:19
- Job 35:12, 37:4, 38:11, 40:10
- Psalms 47:4, 59:12
- Proverbs 8:13, 16:18
- Isaiah 2:10, 2:19, 2:21, 4:2, 13:11, 13:19, 14:11, 16:6, 23:9, 24:14, 60:15
- Jeremiah 12:5, 13:9, 48:29, 49:19, 50:44
- Ezekiel 7:20, 7:24, 16:49, 16:56, 24:21, 30:6, 30:18, 32:12, 33:28
- Hosea 5:5, 7:10
- Amos 6:8, 8:7
- Micah 5:4
- Nahum 2:2
- Zephaniah 2:10
- Zechariah 9:6, 10:11, 11:3
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).