Proverbs 16:18
New King James Version (NKJV)
“18 Pride goes before destruction,
And a haughty ‘spirit’ (ruwach: expression, breath, etc..) before a fall.“
Strong’s Hebrew Lexicon:
Haughty: 1364 gaboahh gaw-bo’-ah or (fully) gabowahh {gaw-bo’-ah}; from 1361; elevated (or elated), powerful, arrogant:–haughty, height, high(-er), lofty, proud, X exceeding proudly.
Spirit: 7307 ruwach roo’-akh from 7306; wind; by resemblance breath, i.e. a sensible (or even violent) exhalation; figuratively, life, anger, unsubstantiality; by extension, a region of the sky; by resemblance spirit, but only of a rational being (including its expression and functions):–air, anger, blast, breath, X cool, courage, mind, X quarter, X side, spirit((-ual)), tempest, X vain, ((whirl-))wind(-y).
