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Strong's #1347 - גָּאוֹן
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1047) ac (גא GA) AC: ? CO: High AB: Pride: The pictograph c , a picture of the foot representing the idea to carry or lift. The a represents strength. Combined these letters mean a “lifting strength”. To lift something up high. This root is related to ecand fc.
A) ac (גא GA) AC: ? CO: High AB: Pride
Nm ) ac (גא GA) - Pride: Someone that is elevated to a higher position. KJV (1): pride - Strongs: H1341 (גֵּא)
Nf1) eac (גאה GAH) - Pride: A lifting up of oneself. KJV (1): pride - Strongs: H1344 (גֵּאָה)
Nf3) tfac (גאות GAWT) - Pride: Someone that is elevated to a higher position. Also the idea of majestic. KJV (8): pride, majesty, proudly, raging, lift up, excellent things - Strongs: H1348 (גֵּאוּת)
jm) nfac (גאונ GAWN) - Pride: Someone that is elevated to a higher position. Also the idea of majestic. KJV (49): pride, excellency, majesty, pomp, swelling, arrogancy, excellent, proud - Strongs: H1347 (גָּאוֹן)
fjm) nfiac (גאיונ GAYWN) - Pride: Someone that is elevated to a higher position. KJV (1): proud - Strongs: H1349 (גַּאֲיוֹן)
K) fac (גאו GAW) AC: ? CO: ? AB: Pride
Nf1 ) efac (גאוה GAWH) - Pride: A lifting up in a positive or negative sense. KJV (19): pride, excellency, haughtiness, arrogancy, highness, proud, proudly, swelling - Strongs: H1346 (גַּאֲוָה)
M) aic (גיא GYA) AC: ? CO: Valley AB: ?: The high walls of a valley, gorge or ravine.
Nm/f) aic (גיא GYA) - Valley: [df: yg] KJV (60): valley - Strongs: H1516 (גַּי)
Jeff Brenner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
גָּאוֹן const. גְּאוֹן, once pl. גְּאוֹנִים (from the root גָּאָה), Ezekiel 16:56, pr. elevation; hence
(1) sublimity, majesty, of God, Exodus 15:7; Isaiah 2:10, 19, 21 24:14, בִּגְאוֹן יְיָ עָֽהֲלוּ “they sing with joy of the majesty of Jehovah.” Job 37:4, קוֹל גְּאוֹנוֹ “his sublime voice,” thunder. Job 40:10, עֲדֵה־נָא גָּאוֹן וָגֹבַהּ “deck thyself, now, with majesty and magnificence.” Micah 5:3.
(2) ornament, glory, splendour, Isaiah 4:2, 60:15, “I will make thee גְּאוֹן עוֹלָם a perpetual glory.” Isaiah 13:19, תִּפְאֶרֶת גְּאוֹן כַּשְׂדִּים “the splendid glory of the Chaldeans,” said of the city of Babylon. Isaiah 14:11. Psalms 47:5, גְּאוֹן יַעֲקֹב “the glory of Jacob,” i.e. the Holy Land; also, God himself, Amos 8:7. גְּאוֹן הַיַּרְדֵּן “the glory of Jordan,” poet. used of its green and shady banks, beautifully clothed with willows, tamarisks, and cane, where lions used to lie hid amongst the reeds, Jeremiah 12:5, 49:19 50:44 Zechariah 11:3 comp. Jerome on Zec. loc. cit.; Relandi Palæstina, page 274.
(3) i.q. גַּאֲוָה No. 3, pride, arrogance. Proverbs 16:18, “pride goeth before a fall.” גְּאוֹן יַעֲקֹב “the pride of Jacob,” Amos 6:8; Nahum 2:3; Job 35:12; Isaiah 13:11, 16:6. It is also ascribed to the waves, Job 38:11. Compare גֵּאוּת No. 4.
the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30