גָּאָה
gâʼâh · H1342 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences
Meanings
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to grow, to become tall, to become high, to rise
Process by which plants and other inanimate objects increase in height
ExamplesJob 8:11 “Can papyrus grow tall without a marsh? Can the rushes grow without water?
Ezekiel 47:5 Again he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not wade across, because the water had risen, enough water to swim in, a river that could not be crossed by wading.
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to raise oneself up
Action by which humans raises themselves up or lift up part of their body; associated with pride
ExamplesJob 10:16 ‘And should my head be high, You would hunt me like a lion; And You would show Your power against me again.
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Action by which a deity shows his majesty and greatness by his actions, which is a reason for praise (to show (one's) greatness)
ExamplesExodus 15:1 Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to the LORD, saying: “I will sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted; The horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea.
Exodus 15:21 And Miriam answered them, “Sing to the LORD, for He is highly exalted; The horse and his rider He has hurled into the sea.”
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 3
- גֹּמֶאpapyrus 1
- מַיִםwater 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with+ בִּצָּהswamp 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- שָׂגַב sâgab · H7682 · high, to raise up against, to stir up against
- Both lexemes genuinely overlap in the sense of elevation or exaltation. שׂגב has a much broader semantic range including senses of defense, safety, strength, and conflict that the target lacks, but the target's core sense of triumph or rising overlaps with שׂגב's 'exalt, be high' sense.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- High002001001035
- גָּאָה denotes being exalted or raised up in majesty, as in the repeated refrain "He is highly exalted" in the Song of the Sea, Exodus 15:1 and 15:21.
- Stance002001001061
- The word can also describe growing tall or rising up physically, as in Job 8:11's question about papyrus and rushes growing without water.
- Great002001002012
- The word also carries the sense of pride or triumphant greatness, closely related to but distinct from the physical rising-up sense above.
Word family 15 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1342. gaah גָּאָה verb rise up (Aramaic Pe`al (ᵑ7 1Sa 2:5) & often Ethpe`el אֶתְגָּאֵי,…
גָּאָה verb rise up (Aramaic Pe`al (ᵑ7 1Sa 2:5) & often Ethpe`el אֶתְגָּאֵי, be boastful, proud, compare also Late Hebrew) —
Qal Perfect ׳ג Exo 15:1, Exo 15:21, גָּאוּ Eze 47:5; Imperfect יִגְאֶה Job 8:11; Job 10:16; Infinitive absolute גָּאֹה Exo 15:1, Exo 15:21; —
1 rise up, of waters Eze 47:5.
2 grow up, of plants Job 8:11.
3 be lifted up, exalted, of head Job 10:16, of ׳י in triumph Exo 15:1, Exo 15:21.
גאה (probably √ of following; Biblical Hebrew גָּאָה rise up).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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