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גֵּוָה

pride

H1467 Strong's Hebrew
gêvâh Transliteration
/gay-vaw'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 1 appearance

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גוה — transliterated gêvâh — is a Hebrew noun carrying the sense “pride.” It occurs a mere 1 verse across Scripture. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Daniel. Its lone occurrence is Daniel 4:37. Related forms include גוה and גיא. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
pride
Modern gloss
pride
Strong's 1890 agrees
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About this word

Strong's H1467 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 →

1
distinct verses
The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
1 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
Daniel 4:37
only appearance
This word occurs only once, in Daniel 4:37.
#6,101
by frequency
Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

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Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 0 · 0%
  • Historical 0 · 0%
  • Wisdom 0 · 0%
  • Prophets 1 · 100%

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 1 distinct verse.

  • Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%

How translations render this word

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BDB lists this Strong’s number as 3 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.

  • King James Version: Pride 1×
  • American Standard Version: Pride 1×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Pride 1×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Pride 1×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H1467 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Pride” 1×

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H1467 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Pride” 1×

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H1467 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Pride” 1×

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H1467 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:

  • “Pride” 1×

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 2 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.

גוה I ide (contr. for גַּאֲוָה Ew § 62 b, 73 b cf. Aramaic Dn 4

  • 1. pride Jb 33:17 Je 13:17. e.g. Job 33:17
  • 2. lifting up Jb 22:29 an exclamation, up! Ew Di De al.; but pride Hi Dr§ 154 n. (ed. 3). e.g. Job 22:29

גוה II back

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

I. n.f. pride (contr. for גַּאֲוָה Ew § 62 b, 73 b cf. Aramaic Dn 4:34 & 𝔗)—

III. n.f. back—(so also Di Hoffm SS; 𝔊 Thes De AV RV body = גְּוִיָּה, cf. BaZMG 1887, 605) Jb 20:25 וַיֵּצֵא מִגֵּוָה it comes out from the back (of arrow which has struck a fugitive, and is then extracted; Hoffm reads מִגֵּוֹה).—i. גֵּוָה sub גאה.

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Derived from גוה (gêvâh) (H1466) — pride.

Part of speech: Noun Feminine TWOT: 2651


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