גָּבֹהַּgâbôahh

high, exalted

Pronunciation: gaw-bo'-ah · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1364

Meanings

1. high, lofty, tall (Ezekiel 17:24; Isaiah 2:15; Zephaniah 1:16)

2. exalted in station (Ezekiel 21:31; Ecclesiastes 5:7)

3. haughty (Psalms 138:6; Isaiah 5:15; Isaiah 10:33)

4. loftiness (1 Samuel 16:7)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 41 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 7:19 Finally, the water covered even the highest mountains on the earth,
  • Deuteronomy 3:5 These towns were all fortified with high walls and barred gates. We also took many unwalled villages at the same time.
  • Deuteronomy 28:52 They will attack your cities until all the fortified walls in your land—the walls you trusted to protect you—are knocked down. They will attack all the towns in the land the Lord your God has given you.
  • 1 Samuel 2:3 “Stop acting so proud and haughty! Don’t speak with such arrogance! For the Lord is a God who knows what you have done; he will judge your actions.
  • 1 Samuel 9:2 His son Saul was the most handsome man in Israel—head and shoulders taller than anyone else in the land.
  • 1 Samuel 16:7 But the Lord said to Samuel, “Don’t judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The Lord doesn’t see things the way you see them. People judge by outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.”
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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).