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גַּאֲיוֹן

gaʼăyôwn · H1349 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. 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

    Examples

    Psalm 123:4 Our soul has had much more than enough Of the scoffing of those who are at ease, And with the contempt of the proud.

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Semantic domains 1 entry
Great002001002012
גַּאֲיוֹן describes an arrogant or proud person, as in Psalm 123:4's lament over the scoffing and contempt of the proud.
Word family 15 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

גָּאָה gâʼâh · H1342 · to grow, to become tall, to become high · 7×גָּאוֹן gâʼôwn · H1347 · thicket, greatness, glory · 49×גַּאֲוָה gaʼăvâh · H1346 · rising, swelling, greatness · 19×גַּו gav · H1459 · midst, same, there-in · 13×גְּוִיָּה gᵉvîyâh · H1472 · body, corpse · 13×גֵּאֶה gêʼeh · H1343 · proud, arrogant · 8×גֵּאוּת gêʼûwth · H1348 · rising, swelling, greatness · 8×גֵּו gêv · H1460 · back, to cast behind (one's) back · 7×גַּו gav · H1458 · to cast behind (one's) back · 3×גֵּוָה gêvâh · H1466 · pride, proud, arrogant · 3×גֵּא gêʼ · H1341 · proud, arrogant · 1×גֵּאָה gêʼâh · H1344 · pride, arrogance · 1×גַּאֲיוֹןgaʼăyôwn · H1349גֵּוָה gêvâh · H1465 · pride, proud, arrogant · 1×גֵּוָה gêvâh · H1467 · pride · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1349. gaayon [גַּאֲיוֺן] adjective proud, גאייונים Psa 123:4 (Kt compare Baer's note,…
H1349. gaayon
[גַּאֲיוֺן] adjective proud, גאייונים Psa 123:4 (Kt compare Baer's note, yet read probably גַּאֲיוֺנִים; but Qr better, יוֺנִים גְּאֵי proudest oppressors, see גֵּאֶה).
גאייונים see foregoing, and also גֵּאֶה.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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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