Jastrow: גָּבוֹהַּ

גָּבוֹהַּ m. (b. h.; preced. ws.), constr. גְּבַהּ 1) high, exalted, elevated &c. Sot. 5ᵃ among men ג׳ רואה את הַגָּ׳ וכ׳ a high persou looks up to a higher one, but ignores the lower one. Gen. R. s. 22 (ref. to Ps. XXXII, 1) happy is he שהוא ג׳ מפשעו וכ׳ who is higher than (who controls) his sin, and whose sin is not higher than himself; a. fr.—Snh. 5ᵇ (in Chald. diction) אבוה … גְּבַהּ עינים הוה this man’s (my) father was ambitious.—Fem. גְּבוֹהָה. Ab. V, 19 רוח ג׳ haughtiness, opp. נמוכה.—Pl. גְּבוֹהִים, f. גְּבוֹהוֹת. Esth. R. to IV, 7 הג׳ הושפלו the high were lowered.—Y. Shebi. VI, 36ᶜ top עיניו … היו ג׳ my father was ambitious, v. supra.—Esp. הַגָּבוֹהַּ the Most High. Y. Snh. VII, 25ᵇ top; ib.ᶜ top בעבודתה בעבודת(ה)ג׳ with a service peculiar to it (that idol), or with a service prescribed for the worship of the Lord; Y. Naz. VI, beg. 54ᶜ למלאכת הג׳ referring to a service prescribed for the worship of the Lord (but applied to an idol).—Y. Ned. I, 37ᵃ top; Y. Naz. I, beg. 51ᵃ לשון ג׳ הוא it is an expression alluding to Divinity, v. חֶרֶס.—לַגָּ׳ for the Lord, on the altar. Pes. 3ᵇ אליה לג׳ סלקא the fat-tail is offered on the altar; a. fr. —2) an abnormally tall and slim person with shaking gait. Bekh. 45ᵇ (explain. קפח, כיפח Mish.) גבוה ed. (Ar. גִּבֵּחַ).—Fem. גְּבוֹהִית. Ib. (Ar. גִּבַּחַת).