Gaavah גַּאֲוָה

Gaavah (Hebrew גַּאֲוָה, Strong's H1346) is a Hebrew feminine noun meaning “pride”. It occurs 19 times in 19 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Gaavah, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Deuteronomy

• Deuteronomy 33:26
  There is none like unto the God of Jeshurun, who rideth upon the heaven in thy help, and in his excellency on the sky.“There is none like the God of Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your aid, and the clouds in His majesty.
• Deuteronomy 33:29
  Happy art thou, O Israel: who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord, the shield of thy help, and who is the sword of thy excellency! and thine enemies shall be found liars unto thee; and thou shalt tread upon their high places.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.”

Job

• Job 41:15
  His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.His rows of scales are his pride, tightly sealed together.

Psalms

• Psalm 10:2
  The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
• Psalm 31:18
  Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.May lying lips be silenced— lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.
• Psalm 31:23
  O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.Love the LORD, all His saints. The LORD preserves the faithful, but fully repays the arrogant.
• Psalm 36:11
  Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.Let not the foot of the proud come against me, nor the hand of the wicked drive me away.
• Psalm 46:3
  Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.though their waters roar and foam and the mountains quake in the surge. Selah
• Psalm 68:34
  Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.Ascribe the power to God, whose majesty is over Israel, whose strength is in the skies.
• Psalm 73:6
  Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 14:3
  In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.The proud speech of a fool brings a rod to his back, but the lips of the wise protect them.
• Proverbs 29:23
  A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.A man’s pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.

Isaiah

• Isaiah 9:9
  And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart,All the people will know it— Ephraim and the dwellers of Samaria. With pride and arrogance of heart they will say:
• Isaiah 13:3
  I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.I have commanded My sanctified ones; I have even summoned My warriors to execute My wrath and exult in My triumph.
• Isaiah 13:11
  And I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the terrible.I will punish the world for its evil and the wicked for their iniquity. I will end the haughtiness of the arrogant and lay low the pride of the ruthless.
• Isaiah 16:6
  We have heard of the pride of Moab; he is very proud: even of his haughtiness, and his pride, and his wrath: but his lies shall not be so.We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his overflowing arrogance. But his boasting is empty.
• Isaiah 25:11
  And he shall spread forth his hands in the midst of them, as he that swimmeth spreadeth forth his hands to swim: and he shall bring down their pride together with the spoils of their hands.He will spread out his hands within it, as a swimmer spreads his arms to swim. His pride will be brought low, despite the skill of his hands.

Jeremiah

• Jeremiah 48:29
  We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogancy, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.We have heard of Moab’s pomposity, his exceeding pride and conceit, his proud arrogance and haughtiness of heart.

Zephaniah

• Zephaniah 3:11
  In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.On that day you will not be put to shame for any of the deeds by which you have transgressed against Me. For then I will remove from among you those who rejoice in their pride, and you will never again be haughty on My holy mountain.

Notes

1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).