Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
pride
Usage: 1) pride, majesty, a rising up 1a) a rising up, swelling (of the sea) 1b) majesty (of Israel) 1c) pride, haughtiness
Gaavah means “excellency” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1346 — dikaios (“justly”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1346 גַּאֲוָה (ga`avah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. ga`avah (gah-av-aw') n-f. 1. arrogance or majesty 2. (by implication, concretely) ornament It has 19 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include pride, excellency, haughtiness, and highness. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
ga`avah (gah-av-aw') n-f. 1. arrogance or majesty 2. (by implication, concretely) ornament [from H1342] KJV: excellency, haughtiness, highness, pride, proudly, swelling. Root(s): H1342
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pride
Usage: 1) pride, majesty, a rising up 1a) a rising up, swelling (of the sea) 1b) majesty (of Israel) 1c) pride, haughtiness
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ga`avah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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19 indexed usages in Old Testament.
There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
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.
His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1346.
There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.
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.
His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
A man's pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,
I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H1346, grouped by book.
Gaavah (Strong's H1346) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "excellency". ga`avah (gah-av-aw') n-f. 1. arrogance or majesty 2. (by implication, concretely) ornament
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's H1346 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1346 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as pride, excellency, haughtiness, and highness. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.