gavoha · high, tall

What it means

gavoha (גָּבֹהַּ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “high, tall”.

Lofty; also proud.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. Rising far above the ground: a mountain, a wall, a tree, a horn.
2. Arrogant, or of greater rank.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• high ×27
• haughty ×2
• proudly, proudly ×2
• he was taller ×1
• height ×1
• higher one ×1
• higher ones ×1
• lofty ×1
• was higher ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• 1 Samuel×4
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Esther×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×2
• Ecclesiastes×4
• Isaiah×6
• Jeremiah×4
• Ezekiel×5
• Daniel×3
• Zephaniah×1

• Genesis 7:19

  And the waters prevailed very, very much on the earth, and all the high mountains that are under all the heavens were covered.

• Deuteronomy 3:5

  All these were cities fortified with a high wall, gates, and bars, besides very many unwalled towns.

• Deuteronomy 28:52

  And it will besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trust, in all your land; and it will besiege you in all your gates in all your land, which YHWH your Elohim has given you.

• 1 Samuel 2:3

  Do not go on speaking so proudly, proudly; let no arrogance come out of your mouth; for an El of knowledge is YHWH, and by him actions are weighed.

• 1 Samuel 9:2

  He had a son whose name was Saul, a young man and handsome; there was no man among the sons of Israel more handsome than he; from his shoulders upward he was taller than all the people.

• 1 Samuel 16:7

  YHWH said to Samuel, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, for I have despised him; for it is not what the human being sees: the human being sees what is before the eyes, but YHWH sees the heart.”

• 1 Kings 14:23

  They also built for themselves high places and standing stones and Asherahs on every high hill and under every leafy tree.

• 2 Kings 17:10

  They set up for themselves standing stones and Asherahs on every high hill and under every leafy tree.

• Esther 5:14

  And Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Let them make a pole fifty cubits high, and in the morning tell the king that they should hang Mordecai on it; then go with the king to the banquet glad.” And the matter seemed good to Haman, and he made the pole.

• Esther 7:9

  And Harbona, one of the eunuchs, said before the king, “Also, look, the pole that Haman made for Mordecai, who spoke well for the king, is standing at the house of Haman, fifty cubits high.” And the king said, “Hang him on it.”

• Job 41:34

  All that is high it looks at; it is king over all the sons of pride.”

• Psalms 104:18

  The high mountains are for the wild goats; the crags are a refuge for the hyraxes.

• Psalms 138:6

  For YHWH is high, yet the lowly he sees, but the haughty from afar he knows.

• Ecclesiastes 5:8

  If you see the oppression of the poor and the robbing of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be amazed at the matter, for a high one watches over a high one, and higher ones over them.

• Ecclesiastes 12:5

  also of what is high they are afraid, and terrors are in the way; and the almond tree blossoms, and the grasshopper grows heavy, and the caper fails, because the human being is going to his eternal house, and the mourners go around in the street;

• Isaiah 2:15

  and against every high tower, and against every fortified wall;

• Isaiah 5:15

  And human beings are bowed down, and man is brought low, and the eyes of the haughty are brought low.

• Isaiah 10:33

  Look, the Lord, YHWH Tsevaot, lops the boughs with terror; and the high of stature are hewn down, and the lofty will be brought low.

• Isaiah 30:25

  And there will be, on every high mountain and on every lofty hill, streams, channels of water, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

• Isaiah 40:9

  On a high mountain go up, Zion, you who bring good news; lift up with strength your voice, Jerusalem, you who bring good news; lift it up, do not fear; say to the cities of Judah, “Look, your Elohim!”

• Isaiah 57:7

  On a mountain high and lifted up you have set your bed; also there you went up to sacrifice a sacrifice.

• Jeremiah 2:20

  For long ago you broke your yoke, you tore off your bonds, and you said, ‘I will not serve!’ For on every high hill and under every leafy tree you lay down, a prostitute.

• Jeremiah 3:6

  And YHWH said to me in the days of King Josiah, “Have you seen what apostate Israel has done? She went up on every high mountain and under every leafy tree, and prostituted herself there.

• Jeremiah 17:2

  as their children remember their altars and their Asherahs beside the flourishing tree, on the high hills.

• Jeremiah 51:58

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: The broad walls of Babylon will be utterly razed, and her high gates will be burned with fire; and peoples labor for nothing, and nations for the fire, and they grow weary.

• Ezekiel 17:22

  Thus says Adonai YHWH: ‘And I myself will take from the top of the lofty cedar and set it; from the tip of its shoots a tender one I will pluck off, and I myself will plant it on a mountain high and steep.

• Ezekiel 17:24

  And all the trees of the field will know that I, YHWH, have brought low the high tree, have made high the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made flourish the dry tree. I, YHWH, have spoken, and I will do it.’”

• Ezekiel 21:26

  thus says Adonai YHWH: Remove the turban and take off the crown! This will not be this! The low exalt, and the high bring low.

• Ezekiel 40:2

  In visions of Elohim he brought me to the land of Israel, and set me down on a mountain very high, and on it was something like the structure of a city to the south.

• Ezekiel 41:22

  The altar, of wood, three cubits high, and its length two cubits; and it had corners, and its length and its walls were of wood; and he spoke to me, “This is the table that is before YHWH.”

• Daniel 8:3

  And I lifted my eyes and saw, and look, a ram standing before the river, and it had two horns; and the two horns were high, but one was higher than the other, and the higher one came up last.

• Zephaniah 1:16

  a day of the horn and of the alarm cry against the fortified cities and against the high corners.

And 5 more times.