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title: גֵּאֶה — proud · The Tanakh dictionary
description: גֵּאֶה (1349), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: proud. BDB 1906: adj. proud. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# גֵּאֶה

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«גֵּאֶה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **proud** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 1349 · **BDB:** גֵּאֶה

### Glosses

arrogant.people (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

proud [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1349/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. proud [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1349/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. proud, Jb 40:11, 12 Is 2:12 Je 48:29; pl. גֵּאִים ψ 94:2; 140:6 Pr 15:25; 16:19; cstr. גְּאֵי ψ 123:4 Qr גאי יונים (\> Kt גאייונים), yet cf. De al.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «גֵּאֶה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1349/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 123:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.123.4/)

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רַבַּת֮ שָֽׂבְעָה־לָּ֪הּ נַ֫פְשֵׁ֥נוּ הַלַּ֥עַג הַשַּׁאֲנַנִּ֑ים הַ֝בּ֗וּז לִגְאֵ֥יוֹנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* much it.has.been.surfeited (for itself self our the mockery of.(the) self-confident.\[people\] the contempt of arrogant.people

*JPS 1917:* Our soul is full sated with the scorning of those that are at ease, and with the contempt of the proud oppressors.

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