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# גָּאָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1342

**rise up** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

rise up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1342/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּאָה: vb. rise up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1342/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. rise up (Aramaic Pe. (𝔗 1 S 2:5) & often Ethiopic אֶתְגָּאֵי, ܐܶܬܓܰܠܻܝ be boastful, proud, cf. also NH)— Pf. ג׳ Ex 15:1, 21, גָּאוּ Ez 47:5; Impf. יִגְאֶה Jb 8:11; 10:16, Inf. abs. גָּאֹה Ex 15:1, 21;— rise up, of waters Ez 47:5. grow up, of plants Jb 8:11. be lifted up, exalted, of head Jb 10:16, of י׳ in triumph Ex 15:1, 21.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he is exalted (2); highly (exalted) (2); it grow tall? (1).

## In the verses

[Job 8:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.11/#tree)

הֲיִֽגְאֶה־גֹּ֭מֶא בְּלֹ֣א בִצָּ֑ה יִשְׂגֶּה־אָ֥חוּ בְלִי־מָֽיִם׃

*Word for word:* will it.grow.tall? papyrus with not swamp will.it.grow? reed\[s\] not water

*JPS 1917:* Can the rush shoot up without mire? Can the reed-grass grow without water?

[Job 10:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.10.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.10.16/#tree)

וְ֭יִגְאֶה כַּשַּׁ֣חַל תְּצוּדֵ֑נִי וְ֝תָשֹׁ֗ב תִּתְפַּלָּא־בִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and it.rises.up like (the) lion you hunt.me and you.return you.show.yourself.wonderful on me

*JPS 1917:* And if it exalt itself, Thou huntest me as a lion; and again Thou showest Thyself marvellous upon me.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1342.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1342/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).