Limitless Word
גָּבַהּgâbahh/gaw-bah'/
HebrewH136134 occurrences (KJV)

to soar, i.e. be lofty; figuratively, to be haughty

KJV renders it: exalt, be haughty, be (make) high(-er), lift up, mount up, be proud, raise up great height, upward.

Where it appears(showing the first 33 of 34)

  • 1 Sam 10:23They ran and got him there. When he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.
  • 2 Chr 17:6His heart was lifted up in the ways of Yahweh. Furthermore, he took away the high places and the Asherah poles out of Judah.
  • 2 Chr 26:16But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up, so that he did corruptly, and he trespassed against Yahweh his God; for he went into Yahweh’s temple to burn incense on the altar of incense.
  • 2 Chr 32:25But Hezekiah didn’t reciprocate appropriate to the benefit done for him, because his heart was lifted up. Therefore there was wrath on him, and on Judah and Jerusalem.
  • 2 Chr 33:14Now after this, he built an outer wall to David’s city, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate. He encircled Ophel with it, and raised it up to a very great height; and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.
  • Job 5:7but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
  • Job 35:5Look to the heavens, and see. See the skies, which are higher than you.
  • Job 36:7He doesn’t withdraw his eyes from the righteous, but with kings on the throne, he sets them forever, and they are exalted.
  • Job 39:27Is it at your command that the eagle mounts up, and makes his nest on high?
  • Ps 103:11For as the heavens are high above the earth, so great is his loving kindness toward those who fear him.
  • Ps 113:5Who is like Yahweh, our God, who has his seat on high,
  • Ps 131:1A Song of Ascents. By David. Yahweh, my heart isn’t haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.
  • Prov 17:19He who loves disobedience loves strife. One who builds a high gate seeks destruction.
  • Prov 18:12Before destruction the heart of man is proud, but before honor is humility.
  • Isa 3:16Moreover Yahweh said, “Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with outstretched necks and flirting eyes, walking to trip as they go, jingling ornaments on their feet;
  • Isa 5:16but Yahweh of Armies is exalted in justice, and God the Holy One is sanctified in righteousness.
  • Isa 7:11“Ask a sign of Yahweh your God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.”
  • Isa 52:13Behold, my servant will deal wisely. He will be exalted and lifted up, and will be very high.
  • Isa 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.
  • Jer 13:15Hear, and give ear. Don’t be proud; for Yahweh has spoken.
  • Jer 49:16As for your terror, the pride of your heart has deceived you, O you who dwell in the clefts of the rock, who hold the height of the hill, though you should make your nest as high as the eagle, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.
  • Ezek 16:50They were haughty, and committed abomination before me. Therefore I took them away when I saw it.
  • Ezek 17:24All the trees of the field will know that I, Yahweh, 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, Yahweh, have spoken and have done it.’”
  • Ezek 19:11It had strong rods for the scepters of those who bore rule, and their stature was exalted among the thick boughs, and they were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.
  • Ezek 21:26thus says the Lord Yahweh: “Remove the turban, and take off the crown. This will not be as it was. Exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high.
  • Ezek 28:2Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God —
  • Ezek 28:5by your great wisdom and by your traffic you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches —
  • Ezek 28:17Your heart was lifted up because of your beauty; you have corrupted your wisdom by reason of your brightness: I have cast you to the ground; I have laid you before kings, that they may see you.
  • Ezek 31:5Therefore its stature was exalted above all the trees of the field; and its boughs were multiplied, and its branches became long by reason of many waters, when it spread them out.
  • Ezek 31:10Therefore thus said the Lord Yahweh: Because you are exalted in stature, and he has set his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;
  • Ezek 31:14to the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves in their stature, neither set their top among the thick boughs, nor that their mighty ones stand up on their height, even all who drink water: for they are all delivered to death, to the lower parts of the earth, among the children of men, with those who go down to the pit.
  • Obad 1:4Though you mount on high as the eagle, and though your nest is set among the stars, I will bring you down from there,” says Yahweh.
  • Zeph 3:11In that day you will not be disappointed for all your doings, in which you have transgressed against me; for then I will take away out from among you your proudly exulting ones, and you will no more be haughty in my holy mountain.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.