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:
Esther 5:11: "and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes"
Esther 10:2: "of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in"
Job 2:13: "they saw that his grief was very great."
Job 7:17: "What is man, that thou shouldest magnify thou shouldest set thine heart upon"
Job 19:5: "If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against against me my reproach:"
Job 31:18: "(For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, her from my mother's womb;)"
Psalms 18:50: " Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and showeth to his anointed, to David, and to his seed"
Psalms 34:3: " O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt together."
Psalms 35:26: "let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against"
Psalms 35:27: "continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant."
Psalms 38:16: "otherwise they should rejoice slippeth, they magnify themselves against"
Psalms 40:16: "say continually, The LORD be magnified."
Psalms 41:9: "in whom I trusted, of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against"
Psalms 55:12: "it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me; then I would have hid myself from"
Psalms 69:30: "the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving."
Psalms 70:4: "say continually, Let God be magnified."
Psalms 92:5: "O LORD, how great are thy works! are very deep."
Psalms 104:1: "my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honor and majesty."
Psalms 126:2: "they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them."
Psalms 126:3: "The LORD hath done great things for glad."
Psalms 138:2: "and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above all thy name."
Psalms 144:12: "That our sons may be as plants grown up that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished"
Ecclesiastes 1:16: "Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all"
Ecclesiastes 2:4: " I made me great works; I built me houses; me vineyards:"
Ecclesiastes 2:9: " So I was great, and increased more than all that were me in Jerusalem:"
Isaiah 1:2: "the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled"
Isaiah 9:3: "Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased they joy before thee according to the joy"
Isaiah 10:15: "against him that heweth magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod should shake itself against"
Isaiah 23:4: "nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish up young men, nor bring up virgins."
Isaiah 28:29: "of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working."
Isaiah 42:21: "The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify and make it honorable."
Isaiah 44:14: "he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish"
Isaiah 49:21: "a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left"
Isaiah 51:18: "is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up."
Jeremiah 5:27: "full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich."
Jeremiah 48:26: "Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against Moab also shall wallow in his vomit,"
Jeremiah 48:42: "shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD."
Lamentations 1:9: "my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified"
Lamentations 4:6: "For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater of Sodom, that was overthrown"
Ezekiel 16:7: "as the bud of the field, and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts"
Ezekiel 24:9: "I will even make the pile for fire great."
Ezekiel 31:4: "The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high her rivers running round about"
Ezekiel 35:13: "Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied against me: I have heard"
Ezekiel 38:23: " Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes nations, and they shall know that"
Daniel 1:5: "provision and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing"
Daniel 8:4: "was there any that could deliver out of his hand; but he did according to his will, and became great."
Daniel 8:8: "Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great"
Daniel 8:9: "little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south,"
Daniel 8:10: " And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; some of the host and of"
Daniel 8:11: " Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place"
