Strong H1346גַּאֲוָה

pride

Transliteration
ga'ăvâh
Pronunciation
gah-av-aw'
Morphology
Hebrew Noun (Feminine)

Definition

From H1342; arrogance or majesty; by implication (concretely) ornament: - {excellency} {haughtiness} {highness} {pride} {proudly} swelling.

Detailed definition

1) pride, majesty, a rising up
1a) a rising up, swelling (of the sea)
1b) majesty (of Israel)
1c) pride, haughtiness

In the Bible

Strong H1346 appears in 19 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • pride9
  • excellency3
  • haughtiness2
  • arrogancy1
  • highness1
  • proud1
  • swelling1
  • thing1

First verses

  1. Deuteronomy 33:26
    There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
  2. Deuteronomy 33:29
    Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.
  3. Job 41:15
    His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
  4. Psalms 10:2
    The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
  5. Psalms 31:18
    Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
  6. Psalms 31:23
    O love the Lord, all ye his saints: for the Lord preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
  7. Psalms 36:11
    Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
  8. Psalms 46:3
    Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
  9. Psalms 68:34
    Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
  10. Psalms 73:6
    Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
  11. Proverbs 14:3
    In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
  12. Proverbs 29:23
    A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
  13. Isaiah 9:9
    And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
  14. Isaiah 13:3
    I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
  15. Isaiah 13:11
    And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.
  16. Isaiah 16:6
    We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.
  17. Isaiah 25:11
    And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.
  18. Jeremiah 48:29
    We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.
  19. Zephaniah 3:11
    In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.
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