גָּבֹהַּ
high
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 18 times (49%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 8 times (22%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 6 times (16%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 4 times (11%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Construct 1 time (3%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 37 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H1364 appears — 32 distinct verses across 14 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Genesis 1 verse
Deuteronomy 2 verses
- Deuteronomy 3:5 גְבֹהָ֖ה adj Adjective fs All these were cities fortified with high walls, gates, and bars; besides the unwalled towns a great many.
- Deuteronomy 28:52 הַ/גְּבֹה֣וֹת ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fp They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God has given you.
1 Samuel 3 verses
- 1 Samuel 2:3 גְּבֹהָ֣ה גְבֹהָ֔ה adj Adjective fs adj Adjective fs Talk no more so exceeding proudly; Don't let arrogance come out of your mouth; For Yahweh is a God of knowledge, By him actions are weighed.
- 1 Samuel 9:2 גָּבֹ֖הַּ adj Adjective ms He had a son, whose name was Saul, an impressive young man; and there was not among the children of Israel a better person than he. From his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.
- 1 Samuel 16:7 גְּבֹ֥הַּ adj Adjective ms cs But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [Yahweh sees] not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."
1 Kings 1 verse
2 Kings 1 verse
Esther 2 verses
- Esther 5:14 גָּבֹ֣הַּ adj Adjective ms Then said Zeresh his wife and all his friends to him, Let a gallows be made fifty cubits high, and in the morning speak you to the king that Mordecai may be hanged thereon: then go you in merrily with the king to the banquet. The thing pleased Haman; and he caused the gallows to be made.
- Esther 7:9 גָּבֹ֖הַּ adj Adjective ms Then said Harbonah, one of the chamberlains who were before the king, Behold also, the gallows fifty cubits high, which Haman has made for Mordecai, who spoke good for the king, stands in the house of Haman. The king said, Hang him thereon.
Job 1 verse
Psalms 2 verses
- Psalms 104:18 הַ֭/גְּבֹהִים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp The high mountains are for the wild goats. The rocks are a refuge for the rock badgers.
- Psalms 138:6 וְ֝/גָבֹ֗הַּ conj + Adjective Adjective ms For though Yahweh is high, yet he looks after the lowly; But the proud, he knows from afar.
Ecclesiastes 2 verses
- Ecclesiastes 5:8 גָבֹ֜הַּ גָּבֹ֨הַ֙ וּ/גְבֹהִ֖ים adj Adjective ms adj Adjective ms conj + Adjective Adjective mp If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.
- Ecclesiastes 12:5 מִ/גָּבֹ֤הַּ prep + Adjective Adjective ms Yes, they shall be afraid of heights, And terrors will be in the way; And the almond tree shall blossom, And the grasshopper shall be a burden, And desire shall fail; Because man goes to his everlasting home, And the mourners go about the streets:
Isaiah 6 verses
- Isaiah 2:15 גָּבֹ֑הַ adj Adjective ms For every lofty tower, For every fortified wall,
- Isaiah 5:15 גְבֹהִ֖ים adj Adjective mp So man is brought low, Mankind is humbled, And the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;
- Isaiah 10:33 וְ/הַ/גְּבֹהִ֖ים conj + ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, will lop the boughs with terror: and the high of stature shall be hewn down, and the lofty shall be brought low.
- Isaiah 30:25 גָּבֹ֗הַ adj Adjective ms There shall be on every lofty mountain, and on every high hill, brooks [and] streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.
- Isaiah 40:9 גָּבֹ֤הַ adj Adjective ms You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain; you who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength; lift it up, don't be afraid; say to the cities of Judah, Behold, your God!
- Isaiah 57:7 גָּבֹ֨הַּ֙ adj Adjective ms On a high and lofty mountain have you set your bed; there also you went up to offer sacrifice.
Jeremiah 4 verses
- Jeremiah 2:20 גְּבֹהָ֗ה adj Adjective fs For of old time I have broken your yoke, and burst your bonds; and you said, I will not serve; for on every high hill and under every green tree you did bow yourself, playing the prostitute.
- Jeremiah 3:6 גָּבֹ֗הַּ adj Adjective ms Moreover Yahweh said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen that which backsliding Israel has done? she is gone up on every high mountain and under every green tree, and there has played the prostitute.
- Jeremiah 17:2 הַ/גְּבֹהֽוֹת ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective fp while their children remember their altars and their Asherim by the green trees on the high hills.
- Jeremiah 51:58 הַ/גְּבֹהִ֖ים ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective mp Thus says Yahweh of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.
Ezekiel 5 verses
- Ezekiel 17:22 גָּבֹ֖הַ adj Adjective ms Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also take of the lofty top of the cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain:
- Ezekiel 17:24 גָּבֹ֗הַ adj Adjective ms All the trees of the field shall 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.
- Ezekiel 21:26 וְ/הַ/גָּבֹ֖הַ conj + ptcl def.art + Adjective Adjective ms thus says the Lord Yahweh: Remove the turban, and take off the crown; this [shall be] no more the same; exalt that which is low, and abase that which is high.
- Ezekiel 40:2 גָּבֹ֨הַּ֙ adj Adjective ms In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me down on a very high mountain, whereon was as it were the frame of a city on the south.
- Ezekiel 41:22 גָּבֹ֜הַּ adj Adjective ms The altar was of wood, three cubits high, and the length of it two cubits; and the corners of it, and the length of it, and the walls of it, were of wood: and he said to me, This is the table that is before Yahweh.
Daniel 1 verse
Zephaniah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
גבה (gâbôahh) is a Hebrew adjective most often rendered “high.” It first appears in Genesis 7:19. The Hebrew Bible uses it across 32 verses — moderately common. Not a single-sense word: explore its full sense range. Sharing its root, it stands alongside גבה, גבה and גבה. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1364 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 32
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 32 distinct verses.
- 14 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 14 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #967
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 967 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 32 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 32 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 21 verses · 66%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 8 verses · 25%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 9%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: High 11×, Every high 5×, Is high 2×
- American Standard Version: High 11×, Every high 4×, Lofty 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: High 20×, Proud 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: High 19×, Haughty 3×, High one 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1364 across 37 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 17 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1364 across 37 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 19 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1364 across 40 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 18 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1364 across 37 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. high, lofty, tall, e.g. Ez 17:24, tower Is 2:15 Zp 1:16, mountain Gn 7:19 ψ 104:18 Is 40:9; 57:7 Ez 17:22; 40:2; cf. phrases על כל גבעה גבהה upon every high hill 1 K 14:23 2 K 17:10 Je 2:20; על גבעות הגבהות Je 17:2; עַל־כָּל־הַר גָּבֹהַּ Is 30:25 Je 3:6; man 1 S 9:2; tree גְּבַהּ קוֹמָה Ez 31:3; horns Dn 8:3; walls Dt 3:5; 28:52; gallows Est 5:14; 7:9; gate Je 51:58; altar Ez 41:22; high things Jb 41:26 Ec 12:5. e.g. Ezekiel 17:24
- 2. exalted in station Ez 21:31; כִּי גָּבֹהַּ מֵעַל גָּבֹהַּ שֹׁמֵר וּגְבֹהִים עֲלֵיהֶם for high one above high one is watching, & the Most High over them Ec 5:7 so Ew Zö al., but Vrss De Now al. higher (earthly), potentates over them. e.g. Ezekiel 21:31
- 3. haughty ψ 138:6 Is 5:15; 10:33 1 S 2:3; גְּבַהּ־עֵינַיִם ψ 101:5; ג׳ לֵב Pr 16:5; ג׳ רוּחַ Ec 7:8. e.g. Psalms 138:6
- 4. n.[m.] loftiness, גְּבֹהַּ קוֹמָתוֹ 1 S 16:7; cf. גָּדוֹל 10, p. 153. e.g. 1 Samuel 16:7
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
adj. high, exalted—1 S 9:2 + 15 times; גָּבוֹהַּ ψ 138:6; cstr. גְּבֹהַּ 1 S 16:7; גְּבַהּ (Ew§ 213 d) ψ 101:5 + 3 times; pl. גְּבֹהִים Ec 5:7 + 5 times; f. גְּבֹהָה Dt 3:5 + 6 times; pl. גְּבֹהוֹת Dn 8:3 + 2 times; גְּבֹהֹת Dt 28:52;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from גבה (gâbahh) (H1361) — to be high.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
גַּבָּה
- f., v. גַּב
גָּבָה
- , v. גבי
גֹּבַהּ
- , v. גּוֹבַהּ, גָּבוֹהַּ.
גָּבַהּ
- v. גבב; cmp. גאה) to be high; to be elated. Meg. 15ᵃ ג׳ המן וכ׳ (Var. ג׳ לבו של המן) Haman is haughtier than Ahasver (he dared what Ah. did not venture); Yalk. Esth. 1056.—Sot. 5ᵃ ולא ג׳ הר סיני למעלה and Mount Sinai did not rise higher (grow proud).
- 1. to raise, elevate; to make elated. Taan. 23ᵃ a generation which was to be humbled הִגְבַּהְּתּוֹ בתפלתן hast thou lifted up through thy prayer, v. גָּאָה.—Erub. 55ᵃ מי שמַגְבִּיהַּ דעתו עליו כשמים Ms. M. (ed. עליה, ed. Sonc. מגב׳ עצמו כשמ׳; v. Rabb. D. S. a. l.; Yalk. Deut. 940 שמגיס דעתו) who exalts his mind in himself as high as the heavens (who considers himself very wise, ed. who considers himself on account of his knowledge of it as high &c.). Ib. 13ᵇ him who lowers himself הק"בה מַגְבִּיהוֹ the Lord will raise, וכל המגביה עצמו וכ׳ and whomsoever exalts himself, the Lord will lower; ib. 54ᵃ; Ned. 55ᵃ. Tanḥ. Ki Thissa 14 מַגְבִּיהִים פניהם lifted their faces up; a. fr.—Ḥall. III, 1 מַגְבַּהַת חלתה she lifts up (dedicates) the priest’s share; v., however, גָּבָה.
- 2. to take up a lost object in order to take possession of it. B. Mets. 8ᵃ המגביה מציאה לחבירו וכ׳ if one takes up an object in behalf of his neighbor; ib. 10ᵃ; Bets. 39ᵇ; a. fr.
- to be raised. Sot. 47ᵇ שפלים הוּגְבָּהוּ the low have been raised. Tanḥ. Ki Thissa 5; Lev. R. s. 8 בלשון זה ה׳ with the word zeh (Lev. VI, 13) has he (Aaron) been raised.—Part. מוּגְבַּהּ, f. מוּגְבַּהַת. Y. Shebu. I, 32ᵈ bot. what means שְׂאֵת (Lev. XIII, 2) מוגבהת a raised spot (Sifra Thazr., Neg. ch. I מובהקת, corr. acc.). e.g. Leviticus 6:13
- , Nithpa. נִתְגַּבֵּהַּ to be elated, boastful. Tanḥ. Ḥuck. 1 התחיל מִתְגַּבֵּהַּ והולך he beame more and more overbearing (Tanḥ. ed. Bub. ib.; Num. R. s. 18 מתגבר). Num. R. s. 6, beg. נִתְגַּבְּהוּ בעצמם they were proud of their own selves.
גְּבַהּ
- , to be high, elated. Targ. Ps. CXXXI, 1.—Sabb. 67ᵃ גְּבִיהַת מכל וכ׳ thou art higher than all other trees. Meg. 15ᵃ ג׳ מלכא וכ׳ Ms. M. (ed. גבר) the King on high is higher than the king below. Ḥull. 7ᵇ ג׳ טורא וכ׳ a mountain rose between them (separating them). [Y. Ter. X, 47ᵇ bot. גביה מן דאבהתיה, Tosaf. to Ḥull. 64ᵇ גמיר.]
- 1. to raise. Targ. II Chr. XXXIII, 14.
- 2. to take up. Succ. 44ᵇ אַגְבְּהֵיה וכ׳ he took it (the festive wreath) up once as such and a second time for the willow branches thereon. B. Mets. 2ᵇ בהדי הדדי אַגְבְּהוּהָ they took the lost object up at the same time. Ib. 8ᵃ; a. fr.
- 1. to be high; to grow proud. Targ. Job XXXV, 5. Targ. Koh. I, 12.
- 2. to rise. Targ. Job XXXIX, 27; a. e.—Ḥull. 141ᵇ sq. דלִיתְגַּבְּהוּ that the young birds may rise (when frightened).
גבי
- (√גב, v. גבב) to collect a bill, taxes &c.; to make one’s self paid, to seize. Keth. 90ᵃ, a. fr. if a later creditor (second mortgagee) שקדם וג׳ מה שג׳ ג׳ collected first, what he has collected is his own. B. Mets. 13ᵇ גּוֹבֶה מנכסים ב"ח he may make himself paid of unmortgaged property. Keth. V, 1 גּוֹבָה את הכל she is entitled to the whole amount; a. v. fr.—Lev. R. s. 11 the king sent a treasury officer לִגְבוֹת to collect (the delinquent taxes); Gen. R. s. 42 לִגְבוֹתָהּ; Tanḥ. Sh’mini 9. [Lev. R. l. c. וגבו אותו, read והכו, cmp. Gen. R. l. c.] Ex. R. s. 30 מי ג׳ הימנו הדם וכ׳ who collected from him (punished him for) the blood on his hand? לא ישראל גָּבוּ אותו וכ׳ not the Israelites collected it, but the Gibeonites did.—Gen. R. s. 85; s. 92 end מצא ב"ח מקום לגבות וכ׳ the creditor met with a chance to collect his bill, i.e. the Lord takes this occasion to visit our sins; a. fr.—Part. pass. גָּבוּי collected, seized. B. Mets. 58ᵃ על הַגָּ׳ counting on the Shekel contributions collected (though not yet delivered in the Temple treasury); Keth. 108ᵃ; Y. Shek. II, beg. 46ᶜ. Shebu. 48ᵇ, a. fr. כג׳ דמי is considered as if collected (in the possession of the creditor); a. fr.
- 1. to be collected, to be collectible. B. Mets. l. c. על העתיד לִגָּבוֹת; Y. Shek. l. c. להִיגָּבוֹת on what is yet to be collected. Peah VIII, 7 הקופה נִגְבֵּית בשנים the charity fund must be collected by two persons; B. Bath. 8ᵇ; Snh. 17ᵇ; a. fr.
- 2. to be collected from, be taxed. Pesik. R. s. 10 לא היו נִיגְּבִים וכ׳ they were not highly taxed; a. fr.
- to cause to be collected. Ḥall. III, 1 מַגְבַּהַת חלתה she orders the priest’s gift to be collected; v., however, גָּבַהּ. Gitt. 35ᵇ הַגְבּוּהָ את השאר help her to collect the balance. [Tosef. Sabb. VI (VII), 1 מגבה, v. גָּבַח.]—Part. pass. fem. מוּגְבָּה collected fund. Tanḥ. Emor 18.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 30 distinct written forms H1364 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 27 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 32 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 7:19
- Deuteronomy 3:5
- 1 Samuel 2:3
- 2 Kings 17:10
- Esther 7:9
- Psalms 104:18
- Ecclesiastes 5:8
- Isaiah 2:15
- Jeremiah 2:20
- Ezekiel 17:22
- Daniel 8:3
- Zephaniah 1:16
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
