Strong's Hebrew · H1346

גַּאֲוָה

gaʼăvâh · gah-av-aw'

excellency, haughtiness, highness, pride, proudly, swelling.

Definition

arrogance or majesty; by implication, (concretely) ornament

Derivation

from H1342 (גָּאָה);

Appears 19 times in Scripture

Psalms 73:6

Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.

Psalms 68:34

Ascribe the power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, whose strength is in the skies.

Job 41:15

His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.

Deuteronomy 33:29

Blessed are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the LORD? He is the shield that protects you, the sword in which you boast. Your enemies will cower before you, and you shall trample their high places.”

Psalms 36:11

Let not the foot of the proud come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.

Psalms 31:23

Love the LORD, all His saints. The LORD preserves the faithful, but fully repays the arrogant.

Psalms 10:2

In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

Deuteronomy 33:26

“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.

Psalms 31:18

May lying lips be silenced—lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.

Psalms 46:3

though their waters roar and foam and the mountains quake in the surge. Selah

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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