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# גֵּוָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1466

**pride** — used 3 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

pride [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1466/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גֵּוָה: n.f. pride [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1466/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. pride (contr. for גַּאֲוָה Ew § 62 b, 73 b cf. Aramaic Dn 4:34 & 𝔗)— pride Jb 33:17 Je 13:17. lifting up Jb 22:29 an exclamation, up! Ew Di De al.; but pride Hi Dr§ 154 n. (ed. 3).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: pride (2); up! (1).

## In the verses

[Job 22:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.29/#tree)

כִּֽי־הִ֭שְׁפִּילוּ וַתֹּ֣אמֶר גֵּוָ֑ה וְשַׁ֖ח עֵינַ֣יִם יוֹשִֽׁעַ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) people.brought.low and you.said up! and.\[the\] lowly of.eyes he.will.save

*JPS 1917:* When they cast thee down, thou shalt say: 'There is lifting up'; for the humble person He saveth.

[Job 33:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.33.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.33.17/#tree)

לְ֭הָסִיר אָדָ֣ם מַעֲשֶׂ֑ה וְגֵוָ֖ה מִגֶּ֣בֶר יְכַסֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* to turn.aside a.person a.deed and pride from a.man he.will.cover

*JPS 1917:* That men may put away their purpose, and that He may hide pride from man;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1466.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1466/): 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).