This adjective describes pride or arrogance, though most scholars recognize it as a textual variant or scribal error for the standard form גֵּאֶה. Isaiah uses it in an oracle against Moab, characterizing the nation's excessive pride. Pride in biblical idiom often connotes not mere self-confidence but arrogant presumption and refusal to acknowledge proper boundaries or authority. Moab's pride becomes a central theme in prophetic denunciation.