gaava · majesty, pride

What it means

gaava (גַּאֲוָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “majesty, pride”.

Majesty, greatness; said of people it can also be pride.

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. Thinking oneself above others.
2. The majesty with which God shows himself and acts for his people.
3. The waters of the sea rising and surging with force.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• pride ×8
• arrogance ×4
• loftiness ×3
• majesty ×2
• greatness ×1
• haughtiness ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×7
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Deuteronomy 33:26

  “There is none like El, Jeshurun, who rides the heavens to your help, and in his majesty the clouds.

• Deuteronomy 33:29

  Happy are you, Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by YHWH, the shield of your help and who is the sword of your majesty? Your enemies will cringe before you, and you will tread on their high places.”

• Job 41:15

  Its pride is its rows of shields, shut up with a seal tight.

• Psalms 10:2

  In his pride the wicked hotly pursues the afflicted; let them be caught in the plans that they have devised.

• Psalms 31:18

  Let the lips of lies be mute that speak against the righteous with insolence, with pride and contempt.

• Psalms 31:23

  Love YHWH, all his faithful ones! The trustworthy YHWH guards, and he repays in full the one who acts with pride.

• Psalms 36:11

  Let not the foot of pride come against me, and the hand of the wicked, let it not make me wander.

• Psalms 46:3

  its waters roar, foam; the mountains tremble at its pride. Selah.

• Psalms 68:34

  Give strength to Elohim; over Israel is his greatness, and his strength is in the clouds.

• Psalms 73:6

  Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.

• Proverbs 14:3

  In the mouth of a fool is a rod of loftiness, but the lips of the wise will guard them.

• Proverbs 29:23

  A man’s loftiness will bring him low, but the lowly of spirit will lay hold of honor.

• Isaiah 9:9

  and the people knew it, all of them, Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, in arrogance and in greatness of heart, saying,

• Isaiah 13:3

  I have commanded my consecrated ones; I have also called my mighty men for my anger, those who exult in my loftiness.

• Isaiah 13:11

  And I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; and I will put an end to the pride of the insolent, and the arrogance of tyrants I will bring low.

• Isaiah 16:6

  We have heard of the pride of Moab, very proud, his arrogance and his pride and his wrath; his boasts are not so.

• Isaiah 25:11

  And he will spread out his hands in its midst, as the swimmer spreads out his hands to swim; and he will bring low his pride together with the tricks of his hands.

• Jeremiah 48:29

  We have heard of the pride of Moab, very proud, his loftiness and his pride and his arrogance and the haughtiness of his heart.

• Zephaniah 3:11

  On that day you will not be ashamed of all your deeds by which you transgressed against me; for then I will remove from your midst those who exult in your haughtiness, and you will not again exalt yourself on my holy mountain.