Gabahh means “be haughty” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G1361 — diotrephes in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H1361 גָּבַהּ (gabahh) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. gabahh (gaw-bah') v. 1. to soar 2. be lofty It has 33 linked Bible usages across 10 books. Visible English usage signals include lifted, exalted, haughty, high, and exalt. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
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.
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to exult
Usage: 1) to be high, be exalted 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be high, lofty, tall 1a2) to be exalted 1a3) to be lofty 1a3a) to be lofty (of Jehovah's ways-good sense) 1a3b) to be haughty, be arrogant (bad sense) 1b) (Hiphil) to make high, exalt
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33 indexed usages in Old Testament.
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.
And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
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.
First 33 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H1361.
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.
And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
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.
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.
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.
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Look unto the heavens, and see; and behold the clouds which are higher than thou.
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.
Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
Who is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,
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.
He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.
Before destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before honour is humility.
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:
But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.
Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.
Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD hath spoken.
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.
And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as I saw good.
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.
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.
Thus saith the Lord GOD; Remove the diadem, and take off the crown: this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high.
Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyrus, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou set thine heart as the heart of God:
By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:
Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.
Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field, and his boughs were multiplied, and his branches became long because of the multitude of waters, when he shot forth.
Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.
Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.
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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Gabahh (Strong's H1361) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "be haughty". gabahh (gaw-bah') v. 1. to soar 2. be lofty
This page currently indexes 33 linked usages for Strong's H1361 across 10 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H1361 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lifted, exalted, haughty, high, exalt, and make. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.