125 occurrences in 11 translations

'Arrogant' in the Bible

But King Sihon of Heshbon did not allow us to pass through, because the LORD your God had hardened his spirit and made him arrogant, in order to deliver him into your control today.

Verse ConceptsFreedom, Of The WillHardened HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedStiffnecked PeopleGod Hardening PeoplePeople Unwilling

The LORD told Gideon, "You have too many soldiers with you for me to drop Midian into their hands, because Israel would become arrogant and say, "It was my own abilities that delivered me.'

Verse ConceptsMany CombatantsNot Mearmygideon

You just defeated Edom and you're arrogant. Bask in your victory and stay home. Why incite trouble so that you yes, you! fall, along with Judah with you?"

Verse ConceptsArrogance, Characterizes The WickedBusybodiesProud People

You claim you've defeated Edom, but you're really only puffed up with arrogant boasting. So stay home. Why stir up trouble so you die, and the rest of Judah with you?"

Verse ConceptsSuccessArrogance, Characterizes The WickedTwelve Beings

But when he became strong, he grew arrogant and it led to his own destruction. He acted unfaithfully against the Lord his God by going into the Lord’s sanctuary to burn incense on the incense altar.

Verse ConceptsForgettingPride, Results OfSelf ConfidenceStubbornness, Consequences OfSuperiorityTemptation, Sources OfSacrilegeEntering The Templearrogance

But Hezekiah's response wasn't commensurate with what had been done for him because he was arrogant in heart, so wrath came upon him, upon Judah, and upon Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsPride, Examples OfPride, Results Of

But Hezekiah humbled himself while he was arrogant in heart, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem joined him in this. As a result, the LORD's wrath did not come upon them during Hezekiah's lifetime.

Verse ConceptsRevival, PersonalHumility, Examples Of

“God will not turn back His anger;The [proud] helpers of Rahab [the arrogant monster of the sea] bow under Him.

Verse ConceptsHumbling The Proud

Because he stretched out his hand against God, and he was arrogant to Shaddai;

Preserve your servant from arrogant people; do not let them rule over me. Then I will be upright and acquitted of great wickedness.

Verse Conceptsethics, and graceBlameRestraintSin, Avoidance OfSin, Nature OfDivine Restraintsdominion

Do not let the foot of the arrogant man come near meor the hand of the wicked one drive me away.

Verse ConceptsFeetExcommunicationProud Peoplearrogance

For I said, “Don’t let them rejoice over me—those who are arrogant toward me when I stumble.”

Verse ConceptsPeople StumblingRejoicing In Evil

This is the way of those who are arrogant,and of their followers,who approve of their words.Selah

Verse ConceptsParticipation, In SinPsalm Interjectionsfate

For the arrogant have arisen against me; oppressors have sought to take my life. They do not keep God in mind! Interlude

Verse ConceptsSuffering, Causes OfSuffering, Nature OfAttempting To Kill MePsalm Interjections

In their mockery they speak evil; from their arrogant position they speak oppression.

Verse ConceptsAbuse Of Authority, Warnings AgainstPride, Results OfThreatsoppression

I said unto the arrogant, Deal not arrogantly; And to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

Verse ConceptsHorns WeakenedBoastingarrogance

Do not lift up high your horn. Do [not] speak with {arrogant pride}.'"

Verse ConceptsNecksSelf WillBraggingHorns WeakenedDo Not Be Proudarrogance

He will humble the arrogant commanders-in-chief, instilling fear among the kings of the earth. To the director: To Jeduthun. A psalm of Asaph.

Verse ConceptsGod Is To Be Feared

The arrogant constantly ridicule me,but I do not turn away from Your instruction.

Verse ConceptsMockeryPride, Results OfArrogance, Characterizes The WickedDerision

Let the arrogant be put to shamefor slandering me with lies;I will meditate on Your precepts.

Verse ConceptsMeditationPride, Results OfShameThe ProudMeditation On God's Word

Though the arrogant nearly destroyed me on earth, I did not abandon your precepts.

Verse ConceptsPersecution, Attitudes ToAfflicted To DeathNot Forsaking God

Guarantee Your servant’s well-being;do not let the arrogant oppress me.

Verse ConceptsPride, Results Of

We’ve had more than enoughscorn from the arrogantand contempt from the proud.

Verse ConceptsPride, Results OfArrogance, Characterizes The WickedThe Proud

LORD, my heart is not arrogant, nor do I look haughty. I do not aspire to great things, nor concern myself with things beyond my ability.

Verse ConceptsPride, Evil OfSuperiorityHaughtinessHumble PeopleExercisemyself

Though the LORD is highly exalted, yet he pays attention to those who are lowly regarded, but he is aware of the arrogant from afar.

Verse ConceptsHumilityPride, Evil OfThe ProudGod And The HumbleGod Far AwayGod Opposes The Proud

The arrogant have laid a trap for me; they have spread a net with ropes, lining it with snares along the way. Interlude

Verse ConceptsHuntingNetsPride, Results OfTrapSnares Laid for PeopleHidden ThingsMan TrappingPsalm Interjections

Excellent speech does not benefit a fool [who is spiritually blind],Much less do lying lips benefit a prince.

Verse ConceptsKings Warned AboutArrogance, Characterizes The WickedEleganceLyingUnfitting Things

He who loves transgression loves strife and is quarrelsome;He who [proudly] raises his gate seeks destruction [because of his arrogant pride].

Verse ConceptsdisagreementsLove, Abuse OfWorldly AmbitionDissensionContentiousnessQuarrelsSelf ExaltationLoving Evil

Some people what an arrogant look they have! raise their eyebrows haughtily.

Verse ConceptsAudacityarrogance

Proud men will be brought low, arrogant men will be humiliated; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

Verse ConceptsHumilityStubbornness, Consequences OfArrogance, Punishment OfHumbling The ProudBeing Humble

Proud men will be humiliated, arrogant men will be brought low; the Lord alone will be exalted in that day.

Verse ConceptsSuperiorityPrideBeing Humblearrogance

So man is brought low, mankind is humbled, and the eyes of the arrogant ones are humbled;

Verse ConceptsHumilityArrogance, Punishment OfBeing Humblearroganceimportance

and all of the people were evil Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria saying proudly with arrogant hearts:

Verse ConceptsFalse ConfidenceProud People

But when the Lord finishes all His work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the king of Assyria for his arrogant acts and the proud look in his eyes.”

Verse ConceptsCondemned HeartsExile, in assyriaHeart, Fallen And RedeemedPride, Results OfSuperiorityBusiness EthicsAssyria, Prophecies OfHaughtinessThe Prophecy Towards AssyriaHumbling The ProudEnd Of ActionsGod Opposes The Proud

I have given orders to my chosen soldiers; I have summoned the warriors through whom I will vent my anger, my boasting, arrogant ones.

Verse ConceptsSanctificationheroesventing

How terrible it will be for that arrogant garland the drunks of Ephraim! How terrible it will be for that fading flower of his glorious beauty, which sits on the heads of people bloated with food, of people overcome with wine!

Verse ConceptsFlowersAlcoholWineBeauty, Temporal Nature OfNo BeautyThe Proud Will Be AbasedWoe To Israel And JerusalemWorseNorthern Kingdom Of Israeldrunkards

No longer will you see those arrogant people, those people with their obscure speech you cannot comprehend, stammering in a language you cannot understand.

Verse ConceptsNot Understanding LanguageUnknown LanguagesSpeech Impediments

Then I said to the people of Judah, "Listen and pay attention! Do not be arrogant! For the Lord has spoken.

Verse ConceptsPride, Results InArrogance, Rejection OfDo Not Be Proud

But if you will not pay attention to this warning, I will weep alone because of your arrogant pride. I will weep bitterly and my eyes will overflow with tears because you, the Lord's flock, will be carried into exile."

Verse ConceptsBeing Earnest For IsraelFeelings Of Rejection By GodSecrecySorrowWeepingRefusing To HearActing In SecretThe Proud Will Be Abased

then Azariah son of Hoshaiah, Johanan son of Kareah, and all the other arrogant men responded to Jeremiah, “You are speaking a lie! The Lord our God has not sent you to say, ‘You must not go to Egypt to live there for a while!’

Verse ConceptsFalse Accusations, Examples OfPride, Results OfPride, Results InProphesying Lies

“Make him drunk, for he has become arrogant toward the Lord; so Moab will wallow in his vomit, and he also will become a laughingstock.

Verse ConceptsdefianceVomittingGod Making Drunk

I have heard how proud the people of Moab are, I know how haughty they are. I have heard how arrogant, proud, and haughty they are, what a high opinion they have of themselves.

Verse ConceptsProud HeartsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedPride, Examples OfHaughtinessProud Peoplearrogance

I, the Lord, affirm that I know how arrogant they are. But their pride is ill-founded. Their boastings will prove to be false.

“Moab will be destroyed from being a peopleBecause he has become arrogant toward the Lord.

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodPeople Destroying Foreign Nations

“Summon many against Babylon,All those who bend the bow:Encamp against her on every side,Let there be no escape.Repay her according to her work;According to all that she has done, so do to her;For she has become arrogant against the Lord,Against the Holy One of Israel.

Verse ConceptsdefianceInfidelity To GodNo EscapeLet Evil ReboundProud People

"Look, I'm against you, arrogant one," declares the LORD God of the Heavenly Armies. "Indeed your day is coming, the time of your judgment.

Verse ConceptsThe Day Of JudgementGod OpposingGod Opposes The Proud

The arrogant will stumble and fallwith no one to pick him up.I will set fire to his cities,and it will consume everything around him.”

Verse ConceptsStumblingAbaseAbasement Of The ProudDownfallBurning CitiesThe Proud Will Be Abaseduncertaintyarrogance

"Therefore this is what the sovereign Lord says: Because you are more arrogant than the nations around you, you have not followed my statutes and have not carried out my regulations. You have not even carried out the regulations of the nations around you!

Verse ConceptsCitizenshipThey Do Not Keep Commands

"When you were being so arrogant, you never once mentioned your sister Sodom

Verse ConceptsProud People

"Son of Man, tell Tyre's Commander-in-Chief, "This is what the Lord GOD says: "Because your heart is arrogant, and because you keep saying, "I have taken my seat, I am a god, seated in God's seat right in the middle of the sea,' and because you're a man, and not a god, even though you pretend that you have a god-like heart"

Verse ConceptsAmbition, negative aspects ofComplacencyExaggerationsHeart, Fallen And RedeemedLove, Abuse OfPride, Evil OfPride, Examples OfRulersSelf ConfidenceSelf Righteousness, Nature OfSin, Causes OfSuperiorityAudacitySelf ExaltationArrogantly Like GodIn The Heart Of The SeaMen As GodsProud Peoplelimitations

By your great wisdom, by your skills in trading you have amassed wealth for yourself and your heart has become arrogant because of your wealth."

Verse ConceptsMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinRiches, Dangers OfSkillTradeRiches, Can Lead ToSatisfied With RichesWisdom Gives Wealth

Your heart grew arrogant because of your beauty; you annihilated your own wisdom because of your splendor. Then I threw you to the ground in the presence of kings, giving them a good look at you!

Verse ConceptsBeautifulFalse WisdomAspects Of People Made KnownGentile RulersPeople Have Honour

It will be a dark day for Tahpanhes when I break the yokes of Egypt. That's when her arrogant power will come to an end. She'll be covered by a cloud, and her citizens will go into captivity.

Verse ConceptsendYokesCessationDarkness During DaytimeGod Freeing CaptivesThings StoppingHer Strength

Then I'll turn the land into a desolate ruin and her arrogant strength will come to an abrupt end. The mountains of Israel will become so desolate that no one will be able to travel over them."

Verse ConceptsDestruction Of CountriesLand Becoming EmptyThe Mountains Of IsraelThe Proud Will Be AbasedHer Strength

"As I was contemplating the horns, another horn -- a small one -- came up between them, and three of the former horns were torn out by the roots to make room for it. This horn had eyes resembling human eyes and a mouth speaking arrogant things.

Verse ConceptsAntichristIrreverenceSuperiorityAntichrist, Names ForHorns In AllegoryPlucking OutEyes In ProphecyHorns BrokenThree Other ThingsLike MenSpeaking With The Mouth

“I watched, then, because of the sound of the arrogant words the horn was speaking. As I continued watching, the beast was killed and its body destroyed and given over to the burning fire.

Verse ConceptsBoasting, FoolishBeastsKilling Wild AnimalsCorpses Of AnimalsBurning People

I also wanted to know the meaning of the ten horns on its head, and of that other horn which came up and before which three others fell. This was the horn that had eyes and a mouth speaking arrogant things, whose appearance was more formidable than the others.

Verse ConceptsTen ThingsHorns In AllegoryEyes In ProphecyThree Other Things

Then it set itself in arrogant opposition to the Prince of the Heavenly Army, from whom the regular burnt offering was taken away, in order to overthrow his sanctuary.

Verse ConceptsPrincesDestruction Of The Temple

By his treachery he will succeed through deceit. He will have an arrogant attitude, and he will destroy many who are unaware of his schemes. He will rise up against the Prince of princes, yet he will be broken apart -- but not by human agency.

Verse ConceptsBabylonAntichristPower, God's SavingSatan, As DeceiverInfidelity To GodDestruction Of The WickedThose At EaseThose Who DeceivedProud PeopleMan's Relation To God

When the army is carried off, he will become arrogant and cause tens of thousands to fall, but he will not triumph.

Verse ConceptsProud People

As their pastures flourished, all their desires were met. As they were satiated, they became arrogant and therefore ignored me.

Verse ConceptsRiches, Dangers OfSatisfactionStubbornness, Consequences OfProud People

Moreover, wine betrays;an arrogant man is never at rest.He enlarges his appetite like Sheol,and like Death he is never satisfied.He gathers all the nations to himself;he collects all the peoples for himself.

Verse ConceptsCoveting, prohibition ofdissatisfactionAmbition, Warnings RegardingGrave, TheSatisfactionWorldly AmbitionCovetousness, Nature ofAlcohol ConsumptionEffect Of WineDealing With The NationsThe Fact Of Death

“I have heard the taunting of MoabAnd the revilings of the sons of Ammon,With which they have taunted My peopleAnd become arrogant against their territory.

Verse ConceptsSpreading

This they will have in return for their pride, because they have taunted and become arrogant against the people of the Lord of hosts.

Verse ConceptsThe Proud Will Be Abased

Its prophets are arrogant and treacherous. Its priests have contaminated the sanctuary. They give perverse interpretations of the Law.

Verse ConceptsPriests, Function In Ot TimesSanctuaryTreacheryCorrupt PriestsPollutionsWicked ProphetsLack Of HolinessUnfaithful

In that day you will not be ashamed of all your rebelliousness against me, for then I will remove from your midst those who proudly boast, and you will never again be arrogant on my holy hill.

Verse ConceptsMillenniumPride, Results OfSelf Righteousness, Nature OfStubbornness, Consequences OfPride, OriginHaughtinessThe Proud Will Be Abased

"You have spoken arrogant words against me," says the LORD. "Yet you ask, "What did we say against you?'

Verse ConceptsBlasphemy, At GodEclipse

“For indeed, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,” says the Lord of Hosts, “not leaving them root or branches.

Verse ConceptsFurnacesFaithlessness, As Disobedienceevil, victory overevil, warnings againstPride, Results OfPunishment, By GodRootsAbaseWicked Described AsAbasement Of The ProudThe ProudEvildoersLight As ChaffBurning PeopleResidueThe Proud Will Be Abased

do not be arrogant toward the branches; but if you are arrogant, remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you.

Verse ConceptsDo Not Be ProudOther SupportingOlive TreesSupportBoasting

Bible Theasaurus

Arrogant (125 instances)
Insolent (23 instances)
Self-Important (2 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
גּאוה 
Ga`avah 
Usage: 19

גּאון 
Ga'own 
Usage: 49

עתק 
`athaq 
Usage: 4

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