Definition

elation, grandeur, arrogance

Etymology

from H1361 (גָּבַהּ);

Where the KJV renders it

• excellency
• haughty
• height
• high
• loftiness
• pride

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.