35 occurrences

'Arrogant' in the Bible

O God, arrogant men have risen up against me,And a band of violent men have sought my life,And they have not set You before them.

May the arrogant be ashamed, for they subvert me with a lie;But I shall meditate on Your precepts.

The arrogant have dug pits for me,Men who are not in accord with Your law.

Be surety for Your servant for good;Do not let the arrogant oppress me.

So it will be that when the Lord has completed all His work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, He will say, “I will punish the fruit of the arrogant heart of the king of Assyria and the pomp of his haughtiness.”

Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the arrogant men said to Jeremiah, “You are telling a lie! The Lord our God has not sent you to say, ‘You are not to enter Egypt to reside there’;

“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.

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

“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.

“Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one,”Declares the Lord God of hosts,“For your day has come,The time when I will punish you.

“The arrogant one will stumble and fallWith no one to raise him up;And I will set fire to his citiesAnd it will devour all his environs.”

“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.

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

“Your words have been arrogant against Me,” says the Lord. “Yet you say, ‘What have we spoken against You?’

“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be chaff; and the day that is coming will set them ablaze,” says the Lord of hosts, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branch.”

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.

Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively applied to myself and Apollos for your sakes, so that in us you may learn not to exceed what is written, so that no one of you will become arrogant in behalf of one against the other.

Now some have become arrogant, as though I were not coming to you.

But I will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I shall find out, not the words of those who are arrogant but their power.

You have become arrogant and have not mourned instead, so that the one who had done this deed would be removed from your midst.

Now concerning things sacrificed to idols, we know that we all have knowledge. Knowledge makes arrogant, but love edifies.

But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.

There was given to him a mouth speaking arrogant words and blasphemies, and authority to act for forty-two months was given to him.

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Definition
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גּאוה 
Ga`avah 
Usage: 19

גּאון 
Ga'own 
Usage: 49

עתק 
`athaq 
Usage: 4

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