גָּבַהּ gâbahh — to soar, i.e. be lofty
Translated in the KJV as exalt, be haughty, be high, lift up, mount up, be proud, raise up great height, upward.
a primitive root; to soar, i.e. be lofty; figuratively, to be haughty.
gâbahh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 11Wayyiqtol 7Infinitive construct 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Jussive 1
And they ran and fetched him thence: and when he stood among the people, he was higher than any of the people from his shoulders and upward.
And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.
But when he was strong, his heart was lifted up to his destruction: for he transgressed against the Lord his God, and went into the temple of the Lord to burn incense upon the altar of incense.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 4Participle (active) 2Infinitive absolute 2Wayyiqtol 1Perfect (qatal) 1
Now after this he built a wall without the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entering in at the fish gate, and compassed about Ophel, and raised it up a very great height, and put captains of war in all the fenced cities of Judah.
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Doth the eagle mount up at thy command, and make her nest on high?
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›