גֵּאֶה
gêʼeh · H1343 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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proud, arrogant
State in which humans have an elevated status in their own eyes, which is seen as a negative and undesirable attitude for humans
ExamplesJob 40:11 “Let out your outbursts of anger, And look at everyone who is arrogant, and humble him.
Psalm 94:2 Rise up, Judge of the earth, Pay back retribution to the proud.
Proverbs 15:25 The LORD will tear down the house of the proud, But He will set the boundary of the widow.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- טָמַןto hide oneself 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- רָאָהto see 2
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against 3
- אֵתwith 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בַּיִתhouse, household 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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In the other Testament 1 word
- ὑπερήφανος hyperḗphanos · G5244 · arrogant, haughty, contemptuous
- Greek ὑπερήφανος renders Hebrew גֵּאֶה in LXX contexts where pride manifests as haughty self-exaltation or conspicuous arrogance, capturing the Hebrew term's core sense of prideful bearing.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Great002001002012
- גֵּאֶה describes an arrogant or proud person, as in Job 40:11-12's call to look upon and humble everyone who is proud.
Word family 15 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1343. geeh גֵּאֶה adjective proud, Job 40:11-12, Isa 2:12; Jer 48:29; plural גֵּאִים Psa…
גֵּאֶה adjective proud, Job 40:11-12, Isa 2:12; Jer 48:29; plural גֵּאִים Psa 94:2; Psa 140:6; Pro 15:25; Pro 16:19; construct גְּאֵי Psa 123:4 Qr יונים גאי (> Kt גאייונים), yet compare De and others
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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