גָּאוֹן
ga.on (H1347)
pride
AI Word Study
The word גָּאוֹן (H1347, ga.on) is found 49 times in the Hebrew Bible, and its primary meaning is "pride." This suggests that pride is an important concept in the Hebrew worldview, worthy of repeated exploration and analysis. The frequency of its occurrence in the Bible indicates a complex and multifaceted meaning. גָּאוֹן (ga.on) is not simply a negative trait, but rather an attitude or state of being that warrants examination and discussion. Its presence in various contexts, likely to be examined, suggests that pride plays a significant role in the human experience, influencing relationships, decisions, and actions. Understanding the concept of pride as reflected in the Hebrew Bible's use of גָּאוֹן (H1347, ga.on) offers insights into the values and concerns of ancient Hebrew culture. By examining this concept, readers may gain a deeper understanding of the human condition and the importance of humility and self-awareness.
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In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send out your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like bronze.
There they cry, but no one answers, because of the pride of evil men.
After it a voice roars. He thunders with the voice of his majesty. He doesn’t hold back anything when his voice is heard.
and said, ‘You may come here, but no further. Your proud waves shall be stopped here?’
“Now deck yourself with excellency and dignity. Array yourself with honor and majesty.
He chooses our inheritance for us, the glory of Jacob whom he loved.
For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.
The fear of Yahweh is to hate evil. I hate pride, arrogance, the evil way, and the perverse mouth.
Pride goes before destruction, and an arrogant spirit before a fall.
Enter into the rock, and hide in the dust, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty.
Men shall go into the caves of the rocks, and into the holes of the earth, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Yahweh, and from the glory of his majesty, when he arises to shake the earth mightily.
In that day, Yahweh’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.
I will punish the world for their evil, and the wicked for their iniquity. I will cause the arrogance of the proud to cease, and will humble the arrogance of the terrible.
Babylon, the glory of kingdoms, the beauty of the Chaldeans’ pride, will be like when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah.
Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.
We have heard of the pride of Moab, that he is very proud; even of his arrogance, his pride, and his wrath. His boastings are nothing.
Yahweh of Armies has planned it, to stain the pride of all glory, to bring into contempt all the honorable of the earth.
These shall lift up their voice. They will shout for the majesty of Yahweh. They cry aloud from the sea.
“Whereas you have been forsaken and hated, so that no one passed through you, I will make you an eternal excellency, a joy of many generations.
“If you have run with the footmen, and they have wearied you, then how can you contend with horses? Though in a land of peace you are secure, yet how will you do in the pride of the Jordan?
“Yahweh says, ‘In this way I, will ruin the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.
“We have heard of the pride of Moab. He is very proud in his loftiness, his pride, his arrogance, and the arrogance of his heart.
“Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it. For who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who will stand before me?”
Behold, the enemy will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will suddenly make them run away from it. Whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it; for who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?”
As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty; but they made the images of their abominations and their detestable things therein. Therefore I have made it to them as an unclean thing.
Therefore I will bring the worst of the nations, and they will possess their houses. I will also make the pride of the strong to cease. Their holy places will be profaned.
“ ‘ “Behold, this was the iniquity of your sister Sodom: pride, fullness of bread, and prosperous ease was in her and in her daughters. She also didn’t strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.
For your sister Sodom was not mentioned by your mouth in the day of your pride,
‘Speak to the house of Israel, “The Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pities; and your sons and your daughters whom you have left behind will fall by the sword.
“ ‘Yahweh says: “They also who uphold Egypt will fall. The pride of her power will come down. They will fall by the sword in it from the tower of Seveneh,” says the Lord Yahweh.
At Tehaphnehes also the day will withdraw itself, when I break the yokes of Egypt, there. The pride of her power will cease in her. As for her, a cloud will cover her, and her daughters will go into captivity.
I will cause your multitude to fall by the swords of the mighty. They are all the ruthless of the nations. They will bring the pride of Egypt to nothing, and all its multitude will be destroyed.
I will make the land a desolation and an astonishment. The pride of her power will cease. The mountains of Israel will be desolate, so that no one will pass through.
The pride of Israel testifies to his face. Therefore Israel and Ephraim will stumble in their iniquity. Judah also will stumble with them.
The pride of Israel testifies to his face; yet they haven’t returned to Yahweh their God, nor sought him, for all this.
“The Lord Yahweh has sworn by himself,” says Yahweh, the God of Armies: “I abhor the pride of Jacob, and detest his fortresses. Therefore I will deliver up the city with all that is in it.
Yahweh has sworn by the pride of Jacob, “Surely I will never forget any of their works.
He shall stand, and shall shepherd in the strength of Yahweh, in the majesty of the name of Yahweh his God: and they will live, for then he will be great to the ends of the earth.
For Yahweh restores the excellency of Jacob, as the excellency of Israel; for the destroyers have destroyed them, and ruined their vine branches.
This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.
Foreigners will dwell in Ashdod, and I will cut off the pride of the Philistines.
He will pass through the sea of affliction, and will strike the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile will dry up; and the pride of Assyria will be brought down, and the scepter of Egypt will depart.
A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! For their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! For the pride of the Jordan is ruined.