Strong's #7682: sagab (pronounced saw-gab')

a primitive root; to be (causatively, make) lofty, especially inaccessible; by implication, safe, strong; used literally and figuratively --defend, exalt, be excellent, (be, set on) high, lofty, be safe, set up (on high), be too strong.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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śâgab

1) to be high, be inaccessibly high

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to be (too) high (for capture)

1a2) to be high (of prosperity)

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to be high

1b2) to be set on high, be (safely) set on high

1b3) to be exalted (of God)

1c) (Piel)

1c1) to set on high, set (securely) on high

1c2) to exalt, exalt (in effective hostility)

1d) (Pual) to be set (securely) on high

1e) (Hiphil) to act exaltedly

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 20 times:

 

Deuteronomy 2:36: "there was not one city too strong for us: the LORD our God delivered"
Job 5:11: "on high those that be low; that those which mourn may be exalted to safety."
Job 36:22: "Behold, God exalteth by his power: who teacheth like him?"
Psalms 20:1: "the name of the God of Jacob defend"
Psalms 59:1: "him. Deliver me from mine enemies, O my God: defend me from them that rise up against"
Psalms 69:29: "and sorrowful: let thy salvation, O God, set me up on high."
Psalms 91:14: "Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name."
Psalms 107:41: " Yet setteth he the poor on high from affliction, and maketh him families like a flock."
Psalms 139:6: "Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I cannot"
Psalms 148:13: "for his name alone is excellent; his glory is above the earth and heaven."
Proverbs 18:10: "tower: the righteous runneth into it, and is safe."
Proverbs 18:11: "wealth is his strong city, and as a high wall in his own conceit."
Proverbs 29:25: "a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe."
Isaiah 2:11: "shall be bowed down, and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day."
Isaiah 2:17: "shall be made low: and the LORD alone shall be exalted in that day."
Isaiah 9:11: "Therefore the LORD shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;"
Isaiah 12:4: "make mention that his name is exalted."
Isaiah 26:5: "he bringeth down them that dwell on high; the lofty city, he layeth it low; he layeth it low, even to"
Isaiah 30:13: "to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking cometh"
Isaiah 33:5: "The LORD is exalted; for he dwelleth on high: he hath filled Zion with judgment"