17 occurrences

'Lofty' in the Bible

Yahweh, my heart isn't haughty, nor my eyes lofty; nor do I concern myself with great matters, or things too wonderful for me.

Verse ConceptsPride, Evil OfSuperiorityHaughtinessHumble PeopleExercisemyself

There is a generation, oh how lofty are their eyes! Their eyelids are lifted up.

Verse ConceptsAudacityarrogance

The lofty looks of man will be brought low, the haughtiness of men will be bowed down, and Yahweh alone will be exalted in that day.

Verse ConceptsHumilityStubbornness, Consequences OfArrogance, Punishment OfHumbling The ProudBeing Humble

For every lofty tower, for every fortified wall,

Behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, will lop the boughs with terror. The tall will be cut down, and the lofty will be brought low.

Verse ConceptsCutting Off BranchesPutting Things Down

The earth mourns and fades away. The world languishes and fades away. The lofty people of the earth languish.

Verse ConceptsHaughtinessTransient WorldMourning Due To Catastrophe

For he has brought down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust.

Verse ConceptsHumiliationHumilityPride, Results OfHumbling The ProudDestruction Of CitiesPutting Things Down

There shall be brooks and streams of water on every lofty mountain and on every high hill in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

Verse ConceptsTowersBrooks

On a high and lofty mountain you have set your bed; there also you went up to offer sacrifice.

Verse ConceptsSacrifice, In OtBedsSacrificing On The High PlacesInfidelity

that you have built for yourselves a vaulted place, and have made yourselves a lofty place in every street.

Verse ConceptsCity Squares

You have built your lofty place at the head of every way, and have made your beauty an abomination, and have opened your feet to everyone who passed by, and multiplied your prostitution.

Verse ConceptsRoadsSpreadingUsing RoadsAspects Of People Made Known

in that you build your vaulted place at the head of every way, and make your lofty place in every street, and have not been as a prostitute, in that you scorn pay.

Verse ConceptsCity SquaresUsing RoadsNot Like Peoplewhores

I will also give you into their hand, and they shall throw down your vaulted place, and break down your lofty places; and they shall strip you of your clothes, and take your beautiful jewels; and they shall leave you naked and bare.

Verse ConceptsNakednessDestruction Of Satan's WorksPeople Stripping PeopleTo Be Given Into One's Handsjewelry

Thus says the Lord Yahweh: I will also take of the lofty top of the cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain:

Verse ConceptsTendernessMessianic PropheciesMetaphorical PlantingThe Mountains Of Israel

Bible Theasaurus

Elevated (27 instances)
Eloquent (8 instances)
Eminent (11 instances)
Exalted (162 instances)
Gallant (1 instance)
Grand (3 instances)
Handsome (22 instances)
High-Minded (5 instances)
Impassioned (3 instances)
Lofty (52 instances)
Majestic (76 instances)
Noble-Minded (1 instance)
Towering (6 instances)

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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
גּבוהּ גּבהּ 
Gaboahh 
Usage: 37

גּבהוּת 
Gabhuwth 
Usage: 2

רוּם 
Ruwm 
up , exalt , high , offer , give , heave , extol , lofty , take , tall , higher ,
Usage: 189