Strong's Hebrew · H1361
H1361 gâbahh
גָּבַהּ
gaw-bah'
to exult
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gâbahh appears 34 times in Scripture, including 1 Samuel 10:23 and 2 Chronicles 17:6. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to soar, i.e. be lofty; figuratively, to be haughty
In the King James Version
exalt, be haughty, be (make) high(-er), lift up, mount up, be proud, raise up great height, upward.
Derivation
a primitive root;
Appears 34 times in Scripture
“Look to the heavens and see; gaze at the clouds high above you.”
“He does not take His eyes off the righteous, but He enthrones them with kings and exalts them forever.”
“Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.”
“And his heart took delight in the ways of the LORD; furthermore, he removed the high places and Asherah poles from Judah.”
“But when Uzziah became powerful, his arrogance led to his own destruction. He was unfaithful to the LORD his God, for he entered the temple of the LORD to burn incense on the altar of incense.”
“But because his heart was proud, Hezekiah did not repay the favor shown to him. Therefore wrath came upon him and upon Judah and Jerusalem.”
“After this, Manasseh rebuilt the outer wall of the City of David from west of Gihon in the valley to the entrance of the Fish Gate, and he brought it around the hill of Ophel and heightened it considerably. He also stationed military commanders in all the fortified cities of Judah.”
“So they ran and brought Saul, and when he stood among the people, he was a head taller than any of the others.”
““Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.”
“Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Since it became great in height and set its top among the clouds, and it grew proud on account of its height,”
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
