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H1361Hebrew

גָּבַהּ

Definition and meaning

gabahh (gaw-bah') v. 1. to soar 2. be lofty 3. (figuratively) to be haughty [a primitive root] KJV: exalt, be haughty, be (make) high(-er), lift up, mount up, be proud, raise up great height, upward.

Tagged KJV passages

33 matching verses - 34.0 tagged occurrences

Highlighted words carry the exact Strong's tag in the installed KJV text. A verse may contain more than one occurrence. These are tagged English renderings, not independently verified original-language token counts.

1 Samuel 10:23

And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.

Matched English: higher
2 Chronicles 17:6

And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

Matched English: up
2 Chronicles 26:16

But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the LORD his God, and went into the temple of the LORD to burn incense upon the altar of incense.

Matched English: up
2 Chronicles 32:25

But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.

Matched English: up
2 Chronicles 33:14

Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.

Matched English: up
Job 5:7

Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Matched English: upward
Job 35:5

Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.

Matched English: higher
Job 36:7

He withdraweth not his eyes from the righteous: but with kings are they on the throne; yea, he doth establish them for ever, and they are exalted.

Matched English: exalted
Job 39:27

Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?

Matched English: up
Psalms 103:11

For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

Matched English: above
Psalms 113:5

Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,

Matched English: high
Psalms 131:1

A Song of degrees of David. LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.

Matched English: haughty
Proverbs 17:19

He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.

Matched English: exalteth
Proverbs 18:12

Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.

Matched English: haughty
Isaiah 3:16

Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

Matched English: haughty
Isaiah 5:16

But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

Matched English: exalted
Isaiah 7:11

Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

Matched English: height
Isaiah 52:13

Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.

Matched English: high
Isaiah 55:9

For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Matched English: higher, higher
Jeremiah 13:15

Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.

Matched English: proud
Jeremiah 49:16

Thy terribleness hath deceived thee, and the pride of thine heart, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith the LORD.

Matched English: high
Ezekiel 16:50

And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.

Matched English: haughty
Ezekiel 17:24

And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.

Matched English: exalted
Ezekiel 19:11

And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.

Matched English: exalted