# גַּאֲוָה (gaavah)

Israeli respelling: ga-a-vah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1346. 19 Old Testament occurrences.

arrogance or majesty; by implication, (concretely) ornament

King James renderings: excellency, haughtiness, highness, pride, proudly, swelling.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/gaavah-h1346

## Occurrences

- [Deuteronomy 33:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Deuteronomy 33:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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…
- [Job 41:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/41/15) — His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.
- [Psalms 10:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/10/2) — The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
- [Psalms 31:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/31/18) — Let the lying lips be put to silence; which speak grievous things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous.
- [Psalms 31:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/31/23) — O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
- [Psalms 36:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/36/11) — Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked remove me.
- [Psalms 46:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/46/3) — Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
- [Psalms 68:34](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/68/34) — Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.
- [Psalms 73:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/73/6) — Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
- [Proverbs 14:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/14/3) — In the mouth of the foolish is a rod of pride: but the lips of the wise shall preserve them.
- [Proverbs 29:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/29/23) — A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.
- [Isaiah 9:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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,
- [Isaiah 13:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Isaiah 13:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 wi…
- [Isaiah 16:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Isaiah 25:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 th…
- [Jeremiah 48:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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.
- [Zephaniah 3:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/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 m…