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# גֵּאֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1343

**proud** — used 8 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

proud [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1343/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֵּאֶה: adj. proud [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1343/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. proud, Jb 40:11, 12 Is 2:12 Je 48:29; pl. גֵּאִים ψ 94:2; 140:6 Pr 15:25; 16:19; cstr. גְּאֵי ψ 123:4 Qr גאי יונים (\> Kt גאייונים), yet cf. De al.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 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, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: proud \[people\] (3); proud \[person\] (2); of proud \[people\] (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 94:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.94.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.94.2/#tree)

הִ֭נָּשֵׂא שֹׁפֵ֣ט הָאָ֑רֶץ הָשֵׁ֥ב גְּ֝מ֗וּל עַל־גֵּאִֽים׃

*Word for word:* raise.yourself.up O.judge of the.earth repay recompense to proud.\[people\]

*JPS 1917:* Lift up Thyself, Thou Judge of the earth; render to the proud their recompense.

[Proverbs 15:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.15.25/#tree)

בֵּ֣ית גֵּ֭אִים יִסַּ֥ח ׀ יְהוָ֑ה וְ֝יַצֵּ֗ב גְּב֣וּל אַלְמָנָֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].house of.proud.\[people\] he.tears.down Yahweh and he.will.establish \[the\].territory of.a.widow

*JPS 1917:* The LORD will pluck up the house of the proud; but He will establish the border of the widow.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1343.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1343/): 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).