Govah גֹּ֫בַהּ

Govah (Hebrew גֹּ֫בַהּ, Strong's H1363) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “height”. It occurs 17 times in 16 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

Topics

• Pride

Verses

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

1 Samuel

• 1 Samuel 17:4
  And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.Then a champion named Goliath, who was from Gath, came out from the Philistine camp. He was six cubits and a span in height,

2 Chronicles

• 2 Chronicles 3:4
  And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.The portico at the front, extending across the width of the temple, was twenty cubits long and twenty cubits high. He overlaid the inside with pure gold.
• 2 Chronicles 32:26
  Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.Then Hezekiah humbled the pride of his heart—he and the people of Jerusalem—so that the wrath of the LORD did not come upon them during the days of Hezekiah.

Job

• Job 11:8
  It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?They are higher than the heavens—what can you do? They are deeper than Sheol—what can you know?
• Job 22:12
  Is not God in the height of heaven? and behold the height of the stars, how high they are!Is not God as high as the heavens? Look at the highest stars, how lofty they are!
• Job 40:10
  Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.Then adorn yourself with majesty and splendor, and clothe yourself with honor and glory.

Psalms

• Psalm 10:4
  The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.In his pride the wicked man does not seek Him; in all his schemes there is no God.

Proverbs

• Proverbs 16:18
  Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.

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.

Ezekiel

• Ezekiel 1:18
  As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.Their rims were high and awesome, and all four rims were full of eyes all around.
• Ezekiel 19:11
  And she had strong rods for the sceptres of them that bare rule, and her stature was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared in her height with the multitude of her branches.It had strong branches, fit for a ruler’s scepter. It towered high above the thick branches, conspicuous for its height and for its dense foliage.
• Ezekiel 31:10
  Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;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,
• Ezekiel 31:14
  To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.This happened so that no other trees by the waters would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds, and no other well-watered trees would reach them in height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the depths of the earth, among the mortals who descend to the Pit.’
• Ezekiel 40:42
  And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.There were also four tables of dressed stone for the burnt offering, each a cubit and a half long, a cubit and a half wide, and a cubit high. On these were placed the utensils used to slaughter the burnt offerings and the other sacrifices.
• Ezekiel 41:8
  I saw also the height of the house round about: the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed of six great cubits.I saw that the temple had a raised base all around it, forming the foundation of the side rooms. It was the full length of a rod, six long cubits.

Amos

• Amos 2:9
  Yet destroyed I the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of the cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; yet I destroyed his fruit from above, and his roots from beneath.Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them, though his height was like that of the cedars, and he was as strong as the oaks. Yet I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.

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).