Strong's #1431: gadal (pronounced gaw-dal')
a primitive root; properly, to twist (compare 1434), i.e. to be (causatively make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride):--advance, boast, bring up, exceed, excellent, be(-come, do, give, make, wax), great(-er, come to...estate, + things), grow(up),increase, lift up, magnify(-ifical), be much set by, nourish (up), pass, promote, proudly (spoken), tower.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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gâdal
1) to grow, become great or important, promote, make powerful, praise, magnify, do great things
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to grow up
1a2) to become great
1a3) to be magnified
1b) (Piel)
1b1) to cause to grow
1b2) to make great, powerful
1b3) to magnify
1c) (Pual) to be brought up
1d) (Hiphil)
1d1) to make great
1d2) to magnify
1d3) to do great things
1e) (Hithpael) to magnify oneself
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 115 times:
Genesis 12:2: "of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:"
Genesis 19:13: "place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD"
Genesis 19:19: "hath found in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast showed unto"
Genesis 21:8: "And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham a great feast the same day"
Genesis 21:20: "was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer."
Genesis 24:35: "my master and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver,"
Genesis 25:27: "And the boys grew: and Esau was hunter, a man of the field;"
Genesis 26:13: "And the man waxed great, and went forward, until he became very great:"
Genesis 26:13: "forward, until he became very great:"
Genesis 38:11: "till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradventure he"
Genesis 38:14: "for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given"
Genesis 41:40: "be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than"
Genesis 48:19: "a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater"
Genesis 48:19: "but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude"
Exodus 2:10: "And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh's and he became her son. And she called"
Exodus 2:11: "in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked"
Numbers 6:5: "and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow."
Numbers 14:17: "I beseech thee, let the power of my Lord be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying,"
Joshua 3:7: "day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that"
Joshua 4:14: "On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all"
Judges 11:2: "him sons; sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said"
Judges 13:24: "his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed"
Ruth 1:13: "Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? for them from having"
1 Samuel 2:21: "daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD."
1 Samuel 3:19: "And Samuel grew, and the LORD was him, and did let none"
1 Samuel 12:24: "consider how great things he hath done for"
1 Samuel 20:41: "with another, until David exceeded."
1 Samuel 26:24: "And, behold, as thy life was much set day in mine eyes, so"
1 Samuel 26:24: "in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let him deliver me out of all"
2 Samuel 7:22: "Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: there is none like thee,"
2 Samuel 7:26: "And let thy name be magnified forever, saying, of hosts is the God"
2 Samuel 12:3: "ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with"
1 Kings 1:37: "be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne"
1 Kings 1:47: "than thy name, and make his throne greater than thy throne. And the king"
1 Kings 10:23: "So king Solomon exceeded all the kings for riches"
1 Kings 12:8: "with the young men that were grown up with him, and which stood before"
1 Kings 12:10: "And the young men that were grown up with unto him, saying, Thus"
2 Kings 4:18: "And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, to his father to"
2 Kings 10:6: "were with the great men of the city, which brought them up."
1 Chronicles 11:9: "So David waxed greater and greater: waxed greater and greater: for the LORD of hosts"
1 Chronicles 17:24: "Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified forever, The LORD of hosts"
1 Chronicles 22:5: "that is to be built for the LORD must be exceeding magnifical, of fame and of glory throughout all countries:"
1 Chronicles 29:12: "and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all."
1 Chronicles 29:25: "And the LORD magnified Solomon in the sight of all Israel,"
2 Chronicles 1:1: "and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly."
2 Chronicles 9:22: "And king Solomon passed all of the earth in riches"
2 Chronicles 10:8: "with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before"
2 Chronicles 10:10: "And the young men that were brought up with unto him, saying, Thus"
Ezra 9:6: "over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens."
Esther 3:1: "things did king promote Haman the son of Hammedatha"
