Strong's #1361: gabahh (pronounced gaw-bah')

a primitive root; to soar, i.e. be lofty; figuratively, to be haughty:--exalt, be haughty, be (make) high(-er), lift up, mount up, be proud, raise up great height, upward.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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gâbahh

1) to be high, be exalted

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to be high, lofty, tall

1a2) to be exalted

1a3) to be lofty

1a3a) to be lofty (of Jehovah' s ways - good sense)

1a3b) to be haughty, be arrogant (bad sense)

1b) (Hiphil) to make high, exalt

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 34 times:

 

1 Samuel 10:23: "him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people"
2 Chronicles 17:6: "And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the LORD: moreover he took away the high places"
2 Chronicles 26:16: "But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed his God,"
2 Chronicles 32:25: "according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon"
2 Chronicles 33:14: "gate and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war"
Job 5:7: "unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward."
Job 35:5: "and see; and behold the clouds which are higher"
Job 36:7: "kings yea, he doth establish them forever, and they are exalted."
Job 39:27: "Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?"
Psalms 103:11: "For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great toward"
Psalms 113:5: "is like unto the LORD our God, who dwelleth on high,"
Psalms 131:1: "LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither"
Proverbs 17:19: "transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate destruction."
Proverbs 18:12: "destruction the heart of man is haughty, and before is humility."
Isaiah 3:16: "Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, with stretched forth necks"
Isaiah 5:16: "But the LORD of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy in righteousness."
Isaiah 7:11: "thy God; ask or in the height above."
Isaiah 52:13: "shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high."
Isaiah 55:9: "For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher"
Isaiah 55:9: "are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher"
Jeremiah 13:15: "Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the LORD"
Jeremiah 49:16: "of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence,"
Ezekiel 16:50: " And they were haughty, and committed abomination before me: therefore I took them away as"
Ezekiel 17:24: "have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green"
Ezekiel 19:11: "the scepters of them that bore rule, was exalted among the thick branches, and she appeared"
Ezekiel 21:26: "this shall not be the same: exalt him that is low, and abase him that is high."
Ezekiel 28:2: "GOD; Because thine heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a God, I sit"
Ezekiel 28:5: "hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:"
Ezekiel 28:17: "Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of I will cast"
Ezekiel 31:5: "Therefore his height was exalted above all the trees of the field,"
Ezekiel 31:10: "the Lord GOD; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top"
Ezekiel 31:14: "of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up"
Obadiah 1:4: "Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest the stars,"
Zephaniah 3:11: "out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy"