govah · height, pride

What it means

govah (גֹּבַהּ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “height, pride”.

Height, the top of something; figuratively, greatness or haughtiness.

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. The measure of something from bottom to top.
2. Greatness, or pride.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• height ×12
• haughtiness ×2
• It is the heights ×1
• lifting up ×1
• loftiness ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Job×3
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×6
• Amos×2

• 1 Samuel 17:4

  The champion came out from the camps of the Philistines; Goliath was his name, of Gath; his height was six cubits and a span.

• 2 Chronicles 3:4

  The portico that was at the front, along the length, across the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty; and he overlaid it inside with pure gold.

• 2 Chronicles 32:26

  Then Hezekiah humbled himself for the lifting up of his heart, he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the wrath of YHWH did not come upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

• Job 11:8

  It is the heights of the heavens; what can you do? Deeper than Sheol; what can you know?

• Job 22:12

  Is not Eloah in the height of the heavens? And see the top of the stars, how high they are.

• Job 40:10

  Adorn yourself, please, with grandeur and height, and with splendor and majesty clothe yourself.

• Psalms 10:4

  The wicked, in the haughtiness of his face, does not seek; “There is no Elohim”: such are all his plans.

• Proverbs 16:18

  Before a breaking comes pride, and before a fall, haughtiness of spirit.

• 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.

• Ezekiel 1:18

  And their rims had height and were fearsome; and their rims were full of eyes all around in the four of them.

• Ezekiel 19:11

  And she had strong rods for scepters of rulers; and its stature rose high up among the thick foliage, and it was seen in its height, with the multitude of its branches.

• Ezekiel 31:10

  Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: ‘Because you rose high in stature, and it set its top among the thick foliage, and its heart was lifted up in its height,

• Ezekiel 31:14

  so that no trees by the waters will rise high in their stature, nor set their top among the thick foliage, nor stand in their height all who drink water; for all of them are given over to death, to the land below, in the midst of the sons of man, with those who go down to the pit.’

• Ezekiel 40:42

  And four tables for the burnt offering, of hewn stone, the length, a cubit and a half, and the width, a cubit and a half, and the height, one cubit; on them they would set the utensils with which they would slaughter the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

• Ezekiel 41:8

  And I saw that the house had a height all around; the foundations of the side chambers were a full reed, six cubits to the joint.

• Amos 2:9

  Yet I destroyed the Amorite before them, whose height was like the height of cedars, and he was strong as the oaks; and I destroyed his fruit above and his roots below.

And 1 more times.