# גָּאוֹן (gaon)

Israeli respelling: gaon. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H1347. 45 Old Testament occurrences.

{arrogance or majesty; by implication, (concretely) ornament}

King James renderings: arrogancy, excellency(-lent), majesty, pomp, pride, proud, swelling.

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

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/gaon-h1347

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 15:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/15/7) — And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed…
- [Leviticus 26:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/26/19) — And I will break the pride of your power; and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass:
- [Job 35:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/35/12) — There they cry, but none giveth answer, because of the pride of evil men.
- [Job 37:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/37/4) — After it a voice roareth: he thundereth with the voice of his excellency; and he will not stay them when his voice is heard.
- [Job 38:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/11) — And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
- [Job 40:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/40/10) — Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency; and array thyself with glory and beauty.
- [Psalms 47:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/47/4) — He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.
- [Psalms 59:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/59/12) — For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips let them even be taken in their pride: and for cursing and lying which they speak.
- [Proverbs 8:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/8/13) — The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
- [Proverbs 16:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/16/18) — Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall.
- [Isaiah 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/2/10) — Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty.
- [Isaiah 2:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/2/19) — And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, whe…
- [Isaiah 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/2/21) — To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the LORD, and for the glory of his majesty, when he…
- [Isaiah 4:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/4/2) — In that day shall the branch of the LORD be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the earth shall be excellent and comely for them that…
- [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 13:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/13/19) — And Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldees’ excellency, shall be as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
- [Isaiah 14:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/14/11) — Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
- [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 23:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/23/9) — The LORD of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.
- [Isaiah 24:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/24/14) — They shall lift up their voice, they shall sing for the majesty of the LORD, they shall cry aloud from the sea.
- [Isaiah 60:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/60/15) — Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated, so that no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, a joy of many generati…
- [Jeremiah 12:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/12/5) — If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherei…
- [Jeremiah 13:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/13/9) — Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
- [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.
- [Jeremiah 49:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/49/19) — Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run awa…
- [Jeremiah 50:44](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/50/44) — Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan unto the habitation of the strong: but I will make them suddenly run away…
- [Ezekiel 7:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/7/20) — As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things ther…
- [Ezekiel 7:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/7/24) — Wherefore I will bring the worst of the heathen, and they shall possess their houses: I will also make the pomp of the strong to cease; and…
- [Ezekiel 16:49](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/49) — Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neit…
- [Ezekiel 16:56](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/56) — For thy sister Sodom was not mentioned by thy mouth in the day of thy pride,
- [Ezekiel 24:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/24/21) — Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire o…
- [Ezekiel 30:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/30/6) — Thus saith the LORD; They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Syene shall they…
- [Ezekiel 30:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/30/18) — At Tehaphnehes also the day shall be darkened, when I shall break there the yokes of Egypt: and the pomp of her strength shall cease in her…
- [Ezekiel 32:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/32/12) — By the swords of the mighty will I cause thy multitude to fall, the terrible of the nations, all of them: and they shall spoil the pomp of…
- [Ezekiel 33:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/33/28) — For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none s…
- [Hosea 5:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/5/5) — And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore shall Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquity; Judah also shall fall with the…
- [Hosea 7:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/7/10) — And the pride of Israel testifieth to his face: and they do not return to the LORD their God, nor seek him for all this.
- [Amos 6:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/6/8) — The Lord GOD hath sworn by himself, saith the LORD the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will…
- [Amos 8:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/8/7) — The LORD hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.
- [Micah 5:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/5/4) — And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shal…
- [Nahum 2:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/2/2) — For the LORD hath turned away the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel: for the emptiers have emptied them out, and marred thei…
- [Zephaniah 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/2/10) — This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts.
- [Zechariah 9:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/9/6) — And a bastard shall dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
- [Zechariah 10:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/10/11) — And he shall pass through the sea with affliction, and shall smite the waves in the sea, and all the deeps of the river shall dry up: and t…
- [Zechariah 11:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/11/3) — There is a voice of the howling of the shepherds; for their glory is spoiled: a voice of the roaring of young lions; for the pride of Jorda…