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# גָּבֹהַּ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1364

**high** — used 37 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

high [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1364/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גָּבֹהַּ: adj. high, exalted [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1364/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. high, exalted—1 S 9:2 + 15 times; גָּבוֹהַּ ψ 138:6; cstr. גְּבֹהַּ 1 S 16:7; גְּבַהּ (Ew§ 213 d) ψ 101:5 + 3 times; pl. גְּבֹהִים Ec 5:7 + 5 times; f. גְּבֹהָה Dt 3:5 + 6 times; pl. גְּבֹהוֹת Dn 8:3 + 2 times; גְּבֹהֹת Dt 28:52;— high, lofty, tall, e.g. Ez 17:24, tower Is 2:15 Zp 1:16, mountain Gn 7:19 ψ 104:18 Is 40:9; 57:7 Ez 17:22; 40:2; cf. phrases על כל גבעה גבהה upon every high hill 1 K 14:23 2 K 17:10 Je 2:20; על גבעות הגבהות Je 17:2; עַל־כָּל־הַר גָּבֹהַּ Is 30:25 Je 3:6; man 1 S 9:2; tree גְּבַהּ קוֹמָה Ez 31:3; horns Dn 8:3; walls Dt 3:5; 28:52; gallows Est 5:14; 7:9; gate Je 51:58; altar Ez 41:22; high things Jb 41:26 Ec 12:5. exalted in station Ez 21:31; כִּי גָּבֹהַּ מֵעַל גָּבֹהַּ שֹׁמֵר וּגְבֹהִים עֲלֵיהֶם for high one above high one is watching, & the Most High over them Ec 5:7 so Ew Zö al., but Vrss De Now al. higher (earthly), potentates over them. haughty ψ 138:6 Is 5:15; 10:33 1 S 2:3; גְּבַהּ־עֵינַיִם ψ 101:5; ג׳ לֵב Pr 16:5; ג׳ רוּחַ Ec 7:8. n.\[m.\] loftiness, גְּבֹהַּ קוֹמָתוֹ 1 S 16:7; cf. גָּדוֹל 10, p. 153.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 32 of its verses cited, 2 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: high (20); a high \[one\] (2); haughty (2).

## In the verses

[Job 41:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.26/#tree)

אֵֽת־כָּל־גָּבֹ֥הַּ יִרְאֶ֑ה ה֝֗וּא מֶ֣לֶךְ עַל־כָּל־בְּנֵי־שָֽׁחַץ׃ס

*Word for word:* (et) every exalted.\[one\] it.sees it \[is\].king over all \[the\].sons of.pride

*JPS 1917:* He looketh at all high things; he is king over all the proud beasts.

[Isaiah 2:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.2.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.2.15/#tree)

וְעַ֖ל כָּל־מִגְדָּ֣ל גָּבֹ֑הַוְעַ֖ל כָּל־חוֹמָ֥ה בְצוּרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and on every tower high and on every wall fortified

*JPS 1917:* And upon every lofty tower, and upon every fortified wall;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1364.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1364/): 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).