גֵּאוּת
gêʼûwth · H1348 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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rising, swelling
State in which a substance increases in volume, which manifests itself in an increasing height
ExamplesPsalm 89:9 You rule the surging of the sea; When its waves rise, You calm them.
Isaiah 9:18 For wickedness burns like a fire; It consumes briars and thorns; It also sets the thickets of the forest aflame And they roll upward in a column of smoke.
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greatness, glory, majesty, pride, arrogance
State in which humans or deities have an elevated status, either in their own eyes or in the eyes of other people, which can either be good or bad, depending on whether this status is justified
ExamplesPsalm 17:10 They have closed their unfeeling hearts, With their mouths they speak proudly.
Psalm 93:1 The LORD reigns, He is clothed with majesty; The LORD has clothed and encircled Himself with strength. Indeed, the world is firmly established; it will not be moved.
Isaiah 12:5 Praise the LORD in song, for He has done glorious things; Let this be known throughout the earth.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
5 occurrences in 4 groups
- שִׁכּוֹרdrunk 2
- יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 1
- יָםsea 1
- עָשָׁןsmoke 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- לָבַשׁto put on, to clothe, to wear 1
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
- רָאָהto see 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 4
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֲטָרָהcrown 2
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
- גֹּבַהּ gôbahh · H1363 · height
- Both lexemes denote elevation, whether literal or metaphorical, and pride or haughtiness — genuinely overlapping senses that would allow substitution of one for the other in many contexts.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ὕβρις hýbris · G5196 · maltreatment, insolence and mistreatment, harm
- גֵּאוּת (gêʼûwth, H1348) גֵּאוּת denotes elevation/majesty in both neutral (excellency) and negative (pride/arrogance) senses, whereas ὕβρις (hýbris, G5196) ὕβρις specifically denotes the negative sense of insolent over-bearing behavior or insult; the LXX translators selected ὕβρις when rendering גֵּאוּת's 'arrogant pride' semantic component (as in 'raging' of waters or 'proudly' of human conduct), not its neutral 'majesty/lifting up' sense.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- High002001001035
- גֵּאוּת denotes exalted majesty or a rising-up, as in Psalm 89:10's image of scattering enemies and Psalm 93:1's description of the LORD clothed with majesty.
- Great002001002012
- The word also denotes pride in a negative sense, as in Psalm 17:10's condemnation of those who speak proudly with unfeeling hearts.
Word family 15 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1348. geuth גֵּאוּת noun feminine majesty, Psa 93:1 7t.; — 1 lifting up עָשָׁן גֵּאוּת…
גֵּאוּת noun feminine majesty, Psa 93:1 7t.; —
1 lifting up עָשָׁן גֵּאוּת column of smoke Isa 9:17; הַיָּם גֵּאוּת swelling of the sea Psa 89:10.
2 majesty of God Psa 93:1; Isa 26:10; עָשָׂה גֵּאוּת he hath done majestically Isa 12:5; גֵּאוּת עֲטֶרֶת crown of majesty Isa 28:1, Isa 28:3(Samaria, on a round hill majestically commanding the country).
3 pride בְגֵאוּת דִּבְּרוּ they speak proudly Psa 17:10; so for נְאוֺת Psa 74:20 Bi Che.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 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
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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