sagav · be high, be safe

What it means

sagav (שָׂגַב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be high, be safe”.

Be high, be out of reach because of its height; therefore, be safe; in another form, set on high.

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. To set safely above, out of danger.
2. To be honored above all, like YHWH's name.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• set on high ×8
• high ×7
• exalted ×2
• set me on high ×2
• are lifted ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×7
• Proverbs×3
• Isaiah×7

• Deuteronomy 2:36

  From Aroer, which is on the edge of the Wadi Arnon, and the city that is in the wadi, as far as Gilead, there was not a town that was too high for us; YHWH our Elohim delivered all of them before us.

• Job 5:11

  setting the lowly on high, and those who mourn are lifted to salvation;

• Job 36:22

  Look, El is exalted in his strength; who is a teacher like him?

• Psalms 20:1

  For the director. A psalm of David. May YHWH answer you in the day of distress; may the name of the Elohim of Jacob set you on high.

• Psalms 59:1

  For the director. Do Not Destroy. Of David. A Miktam, when Saul sent, and they watched the house to kill him. Deliver me from my enemies, my Elohim; from those who rise up against me set me on high.

• Psalms 69:29

  But I am afflicted and in pain; let your salvation, Elohim, set me on high.

• Psalms 91:14

  “Because he has set his love on me, I will bring him to safety; I will set him on high, because he has known my name.

• Psalms 107:41

  But he sets on high the needy out of affliction, and makes their families like a flock.

• Psalms 139:6

  Too wonderful is knowledge for me; it is high; I cannot reach it.

• Psalms 148:13

  Let them praise the name of YHWH, for his name alone is exalted; his splendor is above earth and heaven.

• Proverbs 18:10

  A tower of strength is the name of YHWH; into it the righteous runs and is set on high.

• Proverbs 18:11

  The wealth of the rich is his strong city, and like a wall set on high in his imagination.

• Proverbs 29:25

  Trembling before man sets a snare, but whoever trusts in YHWH will be set on high.

• Isaiah 2:11

  The haughty eyes of human beings will be brought low, and the height of men will be bowed down, and YHWH alone will be set on high on that day.

• Isaiah 2:17

  And the haughtiness of human beings will be bowed down, and the height of men brought low, and YHWH alone will be set on high on that day.

• Isaiah 9:11

  So YHWH raised high the adversaries of Rezin against him, and his enemies he stirred up:

• Isaiah 12:4

  And you will say on that day, “Give thanks to YHWH; call on his name; make known among the peoples his deeds; make it remembered that his name is set on high.

• Isaiah 26:5

  For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the town set on high; he lays it low, he lays it low to the ground, he brings it to the dust.

• Isaiah 30:13

  therefore this iniquity will be to you like a breach about to fall, bulging out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.

• Isaiah 33:5

  YHWH is set on high, for he dwells on high; he has filled Zion with justice and righteousness.