Swelling
Swelling [1]
swel´ing : The verb גּאה , gā'āh , means "rise up" ( Ezekiel 47:5 , etc.), so that the noun ga'ăwāh ( Psalm 46:3 ) means "arising." The "swelling" of the sea that shakes the mountains is a perfectly good translation, and "pride" (so the American Revised Version margin) is beside the mark. In Jeremiah 12:5; Jeremiah 49:19 parallel Jeremiah 50:44; Zechariah 11:3 is found the phrase ge'ōn ha - yardēn , "exaltation of the Jordan," which the King James Version translates "pride of Jordan" in Zechariah and "swelling of Jordan" in Jeremiah (the Revised Version (British and American) has "pride" throughout, with "swelling" in the margin of Jeremiah). What is described is a place, with a mass of vegetation, easily burned ( Zechariah 11:1-3 ), a lair of lions ( Jeremiah 49:19; Zechariah 11:3 ), and a particularly dangerous place for human beings ( Jeremiah 12:5 ). The luxuriant thicket of the Jordan bank is evidently meant, which could well be spoken of as "Jordan's pride" ( OHL , "majesty of the Jordan"), and "swelling" is quite impossible.
In the New Testament "swelling" is used in 2 Corinthians 12:20 for φυσίωσις , phusı́ōsis , "puffing up," "blatant self-conceit," and 2 Peter 2:18 parallel Jude Judges 1:16 for ὑπέρογκος , hupérogkos , "overgrown," "solemnly inane."
