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:
Daniel 8:25: "also he shall cause craft to prosper and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall destroy many:"
Daniel 11:36: "shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak"
Daniel 11:37: "nor the desire nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself"
Hosea 9:12: "Though they bring up their children, them, that there shall not be a man"
Joel 2:20: "and his ill savor shall come up, because he hath done great things."
Joel 2:21: "for the LORD will do great things."
Amos 8:5: "wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?"
Obadiah 1:12: "in the day of their destruction; neither shouldest thou have spoken proudly in the day of distress."
Jonah 4:10: "thou hast not labored, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night,"
Micah 5:4: "and they shall abide: for now shall he be great unto the ends of the earth."
Zephaniah 2:8: "they have reproached my people, and magnified themselves against their border."
Zephaniah 2:10: "their pride, because and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts."
Zechariah 12:7: "of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do not magnify themselves against Judah."
Zechariah 12:11: "In that day shall there be a great mourning as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley"
Malachi 1:5: "and ye shall say, will be magnified from the border of Israel."
