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# גֹּבַהּ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1363

**height** — used 17 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

height [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1363/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֹּ֫בַהּ: n.m. height [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1363/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. height—Jb 22:12 + 9 times; sf. גָּבְהוֹ 1 S 17:4 + 5 times; pl. cstr. גָּבְהֵי Jb 11:8;— height, of buildings and trees Ez 1:18; 19:11; 31:10, 14; 40:42; 41:8 2 Ch 3:4 Am 2:9; prob. also Ez 43:13 (of altar), so 𝔊 Ew Co for MT גַּב (q.v.); of man 1 S 17:4; heaven Jb 11:8; 22:12 (גבה cstr. SI6 of rock). exaltation, grandeur Jb 40:10. haughtiness, Je 48:29; גּ׳ אַף ψ 10:4; גּ׳־לִבּוֹ 2 Ch 32:26; גּ׳ רוּחַ Pr 16:18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 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: height (9); haughtiness (2); \[the\] height (1).

## In the verses

[Job 11:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.8/#tree)

גָּבְהֵ֣י שָׁ֭מַיִם מַה־תִּפְעָ֑ל עֲמֻקָּ֥ה מִ֝שְּׁא֗וֹל מַה־תֵּדָֽע׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].heights of.\[the\].heavens what? will.you.do deep more than.Sheol what? will.you.know

*JPS 1917:* It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than the nether-world; what canst thou know?

[Job 40:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.40.10/#tree)

עֲדֵ֥ה נָ֣א גָֽא֣וֹןוָגֹ֑בַהּ וְה֖וֹד וְהָדָ֣ר תִּלְבָּֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* adorn.yourself please majesty and dignity and glory and honor you.will.be.clothed

*JPS 1917:* Deck thyself now with majesty and excellency, and array thyself with glory and beauty.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1363.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1363/): 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).