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Hebrew verb · H1431

גָּדַל

gadalgaw-dal'

to magnify

117 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: gâdal

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H1431is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 31 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 94
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H1431

to be (causatively make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride)

The King James renders it: advance, boast, bring up, exceed, excellent, be(-come, do, give, make, wax), great(-er, come to... estate, [phrase] things), grow(up), increase, lift up, magnify(-ifical), be much set by, nourish (up), pass, promote, proudly (spoken), tower.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

gadal is rendered "to magnify". It stands 117 times in the Hebrew text, across thirty-one books.

  • Sixteen of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 12:2I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.
  • The Greek text spells it ninety-four different ways.

The first use

I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

Genesis 12:2וַאֲגַדְּלָ֖ה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and he grew up8
  • he has made great6
  • they had grown up4
  • and becoming great3
  • and he became great3
  • it has magnified itself3
  • and it became great2
  • and may he make great2
  • and they grew up2
  • he had made great him2
  • he is great2
  • he made great2

and 67 more, 117 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

גָּדוֹלgadolgreat: largeUses526
גָּדַעgadato cut down/offUses22
גָּדִיGadiGadUses16
גָּדֵרgaderwallUses12
גָּדַרgadarto wall up/offUses10
גָּדַדgadadto cutUses8
גָּדַףgadaphto blasphemeUses7
גָּדָהgadahbankUses4
גָּדֵלgadelgrowingUses4
גָּדִישׁgadishstackUses4
גָּדgadfortuneUses1

The words it stands beside

All 117, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

94 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • גָּדְל֣וּ5
  • יִגְדַּ֣ל5
  • הִגְדִּ֖יל4
  • הִגְדִּ֑יל3
  • וַיִּגְדַּ֖ל3
  • וַיִּגְדַּל֙3
  • הִגְדִּ֥יל2
  • הִגְדִּ֣יל2
  • הִגְדִּֽיל׃2
  • וְגָד֑וֹל2
  • וְיִגְדַּ֨ל2
  • וַיִּגְדָּ֑ל2

and 82 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular14HVhp3ms
  • Hc/Vqw3ms13Hc/Vqw3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular10HVqi3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural6HVqp3cp
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolute3HC/Vqaa
  • Hc/Vqw3fs3Hc/Vqw3fs
  • verb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVpp3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular3HVqp3fs
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVqp3ms
  • Hc/Vhw3mp2Hc/Vhw3mp
  • HC/Vpu3ms2HC/Vpu3ms
  • HC/Vqu3ms2HC/Vqu3ms

Genesis

fourteen uses
  • I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

    Genesis 12:2

    • וַאֲגַדְּלָ֖הvaagadelahconjunction (“and”) + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: and I will make great
  • because we are about to destroy this place. For the outcry to the LORD against its people is so great that He has sent us to destroy it.”

    Genesis 19:13

    • גָֽדְלָ֤הgadelahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is great
  • Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.

    Genesis 19:19

    • וַתַּגְדֵּ֣לvatagdelHc/Vhw2mstagged: and you have made great
  • So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

    Genesis 21:8

    • וַיִּגְדַּ֥לvaiyigdalHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he grew up
  • And God was with the boy, and he grew up and settled in the wilderness and became a great archer.

    Genesis 21:20

    • וַיִּגְדָּ֑לvaiyigdalHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he grew up
  • “The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys.

    Genesis 24:35

    • וַיִּגְדָּ֑לvaiyigdalHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he has become great
  • When the boys grew up, Esau became a skillful hunter, a man of the field, while Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.

    Genesis 25:27

    • וַֽיִּגְדְּלוּ֙vaiyigdeluHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they grew up
  • and he became richer and richer, until he was exceedingly wealthy.

    Genesis 26:13

    • וַיִּגְדַּ֖לvaiyigdalHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he became great
    • גָדַ֖לgadalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he became great
  • Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

    Genesis 38:11

    • יִגְדַּל֙yigdalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will grow up
  • she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.

    Genesis 38:14

    • גָדַ֣לgadalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had grown up
  • You shall be in charge of my house, and all my people are to obey your commands. Only with regard to the throne will I be greater than you.”

    Genesis 41:40

    • אֶגְדַּ֥לʾegdalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will be great
  • But his father refused. “I know, my son, I know!” he said. “He too shall become a people, and he too shall be great; nevertheless, his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his offspring shall become a multitude of nations.”

    Genesis 48:19

    • יִגְדָּ֑לyigdalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will become great
    • יִגְדַּ֣לyigdalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will become great

Exodus

two uses
  • When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”

    Exodus 2:10

    • וַיִגְדַּ֣לvayigdalHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he grew up
  • One day, after Moses had grown up, he went out to his own people and observed their hard labor. He saw an Egyptian beating a Hebrew, one of his own people.

    Exodus 2:11

    • וַיִּגְדַּ֤לvaiyigdalHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he grew up

Numbers

two uses
  • For the entire period of his vow of separation, no razor shall pass over his head. He must be holy until the time of his separation to the LORD is complete; he must let the hair of his head grow long.

    Numbers 6:5

    • גַּדֵּ֥לgadelverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: he will make grow
  • So now I pray, may the power of my Lord be magnified, just as You have declared:

    Numbers 14:17

    • יִגְדַּל־yigdal-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: may it be great

Joshua

two uses
  • Now the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, so they may know that I am with you just as I was with Moses.

    Joshua 3:7

    • גַּדֶּלְךָ֔gadelkhaverb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: to make great you
  • On that day the LORD exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they revered him all the days of his life, just as they had revered Moses.

    Joshua 4:14

    • גִּדַּ֤לgidalverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he made great

Judges

two uses
  • And Gilead’s wife bore him sons who grew up, drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall have no inheritance in our father’s house, because you are the son of another woman.”

    Judges 11:2

    • וַיִּגְדְּל֨וּvaiyigdeluHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they grew up
  • So the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the LORD blessed him.

    Judges 13:24

    • וַיִּגְדַּ֣לvaiyigdalHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he grew up

Ruth

one use
  • would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”

    Ruth 1:13

    • יִגְדָּ֔לוּyigdaluverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will grow up

1 Samuel

six uses
  • So the LORD attended to Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.

    1 Samuel 2:21

    • וַיִּגְדַּ֛לvaiyigdalHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he grew up
  • And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and He let none of Samuel’s words fall to the ground.

    1 Samuel 3:19

    • וַיִּגְדַּ֖לvaiyigdalHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he grew up
  • Above all, fear the LORD and serve Him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things He has done for you.

    1 Samuel 12:24

    • הִגְדִּ֖לhigdilverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has done great things
  • When the young man had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone, fell facedown, and bowed three times. Then he and Jonathan kissed each other and wept together—though David wept more.

    1 Samuel 20:41

    • הִגְדִּֽיל׃higdilverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he did great things
  • As surely as I valued your life today, so may the LORD value my life and rescue me from all trouble.”

    1 Samuel 26:24

    • גָּדְלָ֧הgadelahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it was great
    • תִּגְדַּ֤לtigdalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: may it be great

2 Samuel

four uses
  • And David became greater and greater, for the LORD God of Hosts was with him.

    2 Samuel 5:10

    • וְגָד֑וֹלvegadolconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: and becoming great
  • How great You are, O Lord GOD! For there is none like You, and there is no God but You, according to everything we have heard with our own ears.

    2 Samuel 7:22

    • גָּדַ֖לְתָּgadaltaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you are great
  • so that Your name will be magnified forever when it is said, ‘The LORD of Hosts is God over Israel.’ And the house of Your servant David will be established before You.

    2 Samuel 7:26

    • וְיִגְדַּ֨לveyigdalHC/Vqu3mstagged: and it may be great
  • but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised it, and it grew up with him and his children. It shared his food and drank from his cup; it slept in his arms and was like a daughter to him.

    2 Samuel 12:3

    • וַתִּגְדַּ֥לvatigdalHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it grew up

1 Kings

five uses
  • Just as the LORD was with my lord the king, so may He be with Solomon and make his throne even greater than that of my lord King David.”

    1 Kings 1:37

    • וִֽיגַדֵּל֙vigadelHC/Vpu3mstagged: and may he make great
  • The king’s servants have also gone to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon more famous than your own name, and may He make his throne greater than your throne.’ And the king has bowed in worship on his bed,

    1 Kings 1:47

    • וִֽיגַדֵּ֥לvigadelHC/Vpu3mstagged: and may he make great
  • So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

    1 Kings 10:23

    • וַיִּגְדַּל֙vaiyigdalHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he became great
  • But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.

    1 Kings 12:8

    • גָּדְל֣וּgadeluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had grown up
  • The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!

    1 Kings 12:10

    • גָּדְל֣וּgadeluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had grown up

2 Kings

two uses
  • And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters.

    2 Kings 4:18

    • וַיִּגְדַּ֖לvaiyigdalHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he grew up
  • Then Jehu wrote them a second letter and said: “If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, then bring the heads of your master’s sons to me at Jezreel by this time tomorrow.” Now the sons of the king, seventy in all, were being brought up by the leading men of the city.

    2 Kings 10:6

    • מְגַדְּלִ֥יםmegadelimverb · intensive (piel), participle · masculine pluraltagged: were bringing up

1 Chronicles

five uses
  • And David became greater and greater, for the LORD of Hosts was with him.

    1 Chronicles 11:9

    • וְגָד֑וֹלvegadolconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: and becoming great
  • so that Your name will be established and magnified forever when it is said, ‘The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, is God over Israel.’ And may the house of Your servant David be established before You.

    1 Chronicles 17:24

    • וְיִגְדַּ֨לveyigdalHC/Vqu3mstagged: so it may be great
  • And David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly magnificent—famous and glorious throughout all lands. Therefore I must make preparations for it.” So David made lavish preparations before his death.

    1 Chronicles 22:5

    • לְהַגְדִּ֨יל׀lehagdilpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make great
  • Both riches and honor come from You, and You are the ruler over all. In Your hands are power and might to exalt and give strength to all.

    1 Chronicles 29:12

    • לְגַדֵּ֥לlegadelpreposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to make great
  • The LORD highly exalted Solomon in the sight of all Israel and bestowed on him royal majesty such as had not been bestowed on any king in Israel before him.

    1 Chronicles 29:25

    • וַיְגַדֵּ֨לvaygadelHc/Vpw3mstagged: and he made great

2 Chronicles

four uses
  • Now Solomon son of David established himself securely over his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him and highly exalted him.

    2 Chronicles 1:1

    • וַֽיְגַדְּלֵ֖הוּvaygadelehuHc/Vpw3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he made great him
  • So King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom.

    2 Chronicles 9:22

    • וַיִּגְדַּל֙vaiyigdalHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he became great
  • But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.

    2 Chronicles 10:8

    • גָּדְל֣וּgadeluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had grown up
  • The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!

    2 Chronicles 10:10

    • גָּדְל֣וּgadeluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had grown up

Ezra

one use
  • and said: “O my God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift up my face to You, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads, and our guilt has reached the heavens.

    Ezra 9:6

    • גָדְלָ֖הgadelahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is great

Esther

four uses
  • After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him to a position above all the princes who were with him.

    Esther 3:1

    • גִּדַּל֩gidalverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he made great
  • Haman recounted to them his glorious wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored and promoted him over the other officials and servants.

    Esther 5:11

    • גִּדְּל֤וֹgideloverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had made great him
  • For Mordecai exercised great power in the palace, and his fame spread throughout the provinces as he became more and more powerful.

    Esther 9:4

    • וְגָדֽוֹל׃ פvegadolconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: and becoming great
  • And all of Mordecai’s powerful and magnificent accomplishments, together with the full account of the greatness to which the king had raised him, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Media and Persia?

    Esther 10:2

    • גִּדְּל֖וֹgideloverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had made great him

Job

four uses
  • Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.

    Job 2:13

    • גָדַ֥לgadalverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was great
  • What is man that You should exalt him, that You should set Your heart upon him,

    Job 7:17

    • תְגַדְּלֶ֑נּוּtegaddelenuverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: you will make great him
  • If indeed you would exalt yourselves above me and use my disgrace against me,

    Job 19:5

    • תַּגְדִּ֑ילוּtagdiluverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will magnify yourselves
  • though from my youth I reared him as would a father, and from my mother’s womb I guided the widow—

    Job 31:18

    • גְּדֵלַ֣נִיgedelaniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he grew up with me

Psalms

sixteen uses
  • Great salvation He brings to His king. He shows loving devotion to His anointed, to David and his descendants forever.

    Psalms 18:50

    • מַגְדִּיל֮migdolverb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: making great
  • Magnify the LORD with me; let us exalt His name together.

    Psalms 34:3

    • גַּדְּל֣וּgadeluverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: magnify
  • May those who gloat in my distress be ashamed and confounded; may those who exalt themselves over me be clothed in shame and reproach.

    Psalms 35:26

    • הַֽמַּגְדִּילִ֥יםhamagdilimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who magnify themselves
  • May those who favor my vindication shout for joy and gladness; may they always say, “Exalted be the LORD who delights in His servant’s well-being.”

    Psalms 35:27

    • יִגְדַּ֣לyigdalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: may he be great
  • For I said, “Let them not gloat over me— those who taunt me when my foot slips.”

    Psalms 38:16

    • הִגְדִּֽילוּ׃higdiluverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they magnified themselves
  • May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, “The LORD be magnified!”

    Psalms 40:16

    • יִגְדַּ֣לyigdalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he is great
  • Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.

    Psalms 41:9

    • הִגְדִּ֖ילhigdilverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has made great
  • For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.

    Psalms 55:12

    • הִגְדִּ֑ילhigdilverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he magnified himself
  • I will praise God’s name in song and exalt Him with thanksgiving.

    Psalms 69:30

    • וַאֲגַדְּלֶ֥נּוּvaagaddelenuHC/Vpu1cs/Sp3mstagged: and I will magnify him
  • May all who seek You rejoice and be glad in You; may those who love Your salvation always say, “Let God be magnified!”

    Psalms 70:4

    • יִגְדַּ֣לyigdalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: may he be great
  • How great are Your works, O LORD, how deep are Your thoughts!

    Psalms 92:5

    • גָּדְל֣וּgadeluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are great
  • Bless the LORD, O my soul! O LORD my God, You are very great; You are clothed with splendor and majesty.

    Psalms 104:1

    • גָּדַ֣לְתָּgadaltaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you are great
  • Then our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with shouts of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The LORD has done great things for them.”

    Psalms 126:2

    • הִגְדִּ֥ילhigdilverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has made great
  • The LORD has done great things for us; we are filled with joy.

    Psalms 126:3

    • הִגְדִּ֣ילhigdilverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has made great
  • I bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness; You have exalted Your name and Your word above all else.

    Psalms 138:2

    • הִגְדַּ֥לְתָּhigdaltaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have made great
  • Then our sons will be like plants nurtured in their youth, our daughters like corner pillars carved to adorn a palace.

    Psalms 144:12

    • מְגֻדָּלִ֪יםmegudalimverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: full grown

Ecclesiastes

three uses
  • I said to myself, “Behold, I have grown and increased in wisdom beyond all those before me who were over Jerusalem, and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge.”

    Ecclesiastes 1:16

    • הִגְדַּ֤לְתִּיhigdaltiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have made great
  • I expanded my pursuits. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself.

    Ecclesiastes 2:4

    • הִגְדַּ֖לְתִּיhigdaltiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I made great
  • So I became great and surpassed all in Jerusalem who had preceded me; and my wisdom remained with me.

    Ecclesiastes 2:9

    • וְגָדַ֣לְתִּיvegadaltiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I became great

Isaiah

nine uses
  • Listen, O heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the LORD has spoken: “I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against Me.

    Isaiah 1:2

    • גִּדַּ֣לְתִּיgidaltiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have brought up
  • You have enlarged the nation and increased its joy. The people rejoice before You as they rejoice at harvest time, as men rejoice in dividing the plunder.

    Isaiah 9:3

    • הִגְדַּ֣לְתָּhigdaltaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will magnify
  • Does an axe raise itself above the one who swings it? Does a saw boast over him who saws with it? It would be like a rod waving the one who lifts it, or a staff lifting him who is not wood!

    Isaiah 10:15

    • יִתְגַּדֵּ֤לyitgadelverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: does it magnify itself
  • Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”

    Isaiah 23:4

    • גִדַּ֛לְתִּיgidaltiverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have brought up
  • This also comes from the LORD of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.

    Isaiah 28:29

    • הִגְדִּ֖ילhigdilverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has made great
  • The LORD was pleased, for the sake of His righteousness, to magnify His law and make it glorious.

    Isaiah 42:21

    • יַגְדִּ֥ילyagdilverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will make great
  • He cuts down cedars or retrieves a cypress or oak. He lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a laurel, and the rain makes it grow.

    Isaiah 44:14

    • יְגַדֵּֽל׃yegadelverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it makes grow
  • Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?’”

    Isaiah 49:21

    • גִדֵּ֔לgidelverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: did he bring up
  • Among all the sons she bore, there is no one to guide her; among all the sons she brought up, there is no one to take her hand.

    Isaiah 51:18

    • גִּדֵּֽלָה׃gidelahverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she has brought up

Jeremiah

three uses
  • Like cages full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Therefore they have become powerful and rich.

    Jeremiah 5:27

    • גָּדְל֖וּgadeluverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have become great
  • “Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.

    Jeremiah 48:26

    • הִגְדִּ֑ילhigdilverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has magnified itself
  • Moab will be destroyed as a nation because he vaunted himself against the LORD.

    Jeremiah 48:42

    • הִגְדִּֽיל׃higdilverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has magnified itself

Lamentations

two uses
  • Her uncleanness stains her skirts; she did not consider her end. Her downfall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. Look, O LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!

    Lamentations 1:9

    • הִגְדִּ֖ילhigdilverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has magnified itself
  • The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand turned to help her.

    Lamentations 4:6

    • וַיִּגְדַּל֙vaiyigdalHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it has become great

Ezekiel

five uses
  • I made you thrive like a plant of the field. You grew up and matured and became very beautiful. Your breasts were formed and your hair grew, but you were naked and bare.

    Ezekiel 16:7

    • וַֽתִּגְדְּלִ֔יvatigdeliHc/Vqw2fstagged: and you grew up
  • Yes, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed! I, too, will pile the kindling high.

    Ezekiel 24:9

    • אַגְדִּ֥ילʾagdilverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will make great
  • The waters made it grow; the deep springs made it tall, directing their streams all around its base and sending their channels to all the trees of the field.

    Ezekiel 31:4

    • גִּדְּל֔וּהוּgideluhuverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: they made grow it
  • You boasted against Me with your mouth and multiplied your words against Me. I heard it Myself!

    Ezekiel 35:13

    • וַתַּגְדִּ֤ילוּvatagdiluHc/Vhw2mptagged: and you have magnified yourselves
  • I will magnify and sanctify Myself, and will reveal Myself in the sight of many nations. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

    Ezekiel 38:23

    • וְהִתְגַּדִּלְתִּי֙vehitgadiltiHc/Vtq1cstagged: and I will show myself great

Daniel

nine uses
  • The king assigned them daily provisions of the royal food and wine. They were to be trained for three years, after which they were to enter the king’s service.

    Daniel 1:5

    • וּֽלְגַדְּלָ֖םulegadelamconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · intensive (piel), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and to bring up them
  • I saw the ram charging toward the west and the north and the south. No animal could stand against him, and there was no deliverance from his power. He did as he pleased and became great.

    Daniel 8:4

    • וְהִגְדִּֽיל׃vehigdilHc/Vhq3mstagged: and it magnified itself
  • Thus the goat became very great, but at the height of his power, his large horn was broken off, and four prominent horns came up in its place, pointing toward the four winds of heaven.

    Daniel 8:8

    • הִגְדִּ֣ילhigdilverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it magnified itself
  • From one of these horns a little horn emerged and grew extensively toward the south and the east and toward the Beautiful Land.

    Daniel 8:9

    • וַתִּגְדַּל־vatigdal-Hc/Vqw3fstagged: and it became great
  • It grew as high as the host of heaven, and it cast down some of the host and some of the stars to the earth, and trampled them.

    Daniel 8:10

    • וַתִּגְדַּ֖לvatigdalHc/Vqw3fstagged: and it became great
  • It magnified itself, even to the Prince of the host; it removed His daily sacrifice and overthrew the place of His sanctuary.

    Daniel 8:11

    • הִגְדִּ֑ילhigdilverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it magnified itself
  • Through his craft and by his hand, he will cause deceit to prosper, and in his own mind he will make himself great. In a time of peace he will destroy many, and he will even stand against the Prince of princes. Yet he will be broken off, but not by human hands.

    Daniel 8:25

    • יַגְדִּ֔ילyagdilverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will magnify himself
  • Then the king will do as he pleases and will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will speak monstrous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must be accomplished.

    Daniel 11:36

    • וְיִתְגַּדֵּל֙veyitgadelHC/Vtu3mstagged: and he may magnify himself
  • He will show no regard for the gods of his fathers, nor for the one desired by women, nor for any other god, because he will magnify himself above them all.

    Daniel 11:37

    • יִתְגַּדָּֽל׃yitgadalverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will magnify himself

Hosea

one use
  • Even if they raise their children, I will bereave them of each one. Yes, woe be to them when I turn away from them!

    Hosea 9:12

    • יְגַדְּלוּ֙yegadeluverb · intensive (piel), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will bring up

Joel

two uses
  • The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Eastern Sea, and its rear guard into the Western Sea. And its stench will rise; its foul odor will ascend. For He has done great things.

    Joel 2:20

    • הִגְדִּ֖ילhigdilverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has made great
  • Do not be afraid, O land; rejoice and be glad, for the LORD has done great things.

    Joel 2:21

    • הִגְדִּ֥ילhigdilverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has made great

Amos

one use
  • asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.

    Amos 8:5

    • וּלְהַגְדִּ֣ילulehagdilconjunction (“and”) + preposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: and to make great

Obadiah

one use
  • But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day of their destruction, nor boast proudly in the day of their distress.

    Obadiah 1:12

    • תַּגְדֵּ֥לtagdelverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you make big

Jonah

one use
  • But the LORD said, “You cared about the plant, which you neither tended nor made grow. It sprang up in a night and perished in a night.

    Jonah 4:10

    • גִדַּלְתּ֑וֹgidaltoverb · intensive (piel), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: you had made grow it

Micah

one use
  • He will stand and shepherd His flock in the strength of the LORD, in the majestic name of the LORD His God. And they will dwell securely, for then His greatness will extend to the ends of the earth.

    Micah 5:4

    • יִגְדַּ֖לyigdalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be great

Zephaniah

two uses
  • “I have heard the reproach of Moab and the insults of the Ammonites, who have taunted My people and threatened their borders.

    Zephaniah 2:8

    • וַיַּגְדִּ֖ילוּvaiyagdiluHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they have magnified themselves
  • This they shall have in return for their pride, for taunting and mocking the people of the LORD of Hosts.

    Zephaniah 2:10

    • וַיַּגְדִּ֔לוּvaiyagdiluHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they magnified themselves

Zechariah

two uses
  • The LORD will save the tents of Judah first, so that the glory of the house of David and of the people of Jerusalem may not be greater than that of Judah.

    Zechariah 12:7

    • תִגְדַּ֜לtigdalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be great
  • On that day the wailing in Jerusalem will be as great as the wailing of Hadad-rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

    Zechariah 12:11

    • יִגְדַּ֤לyigdalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be great

Malachi

one use
  • You will see this with your own eyes, and you yourselves will say, ‘The LORD is great—even beyond the borders of Israel.’”

    Malachi 1:5

    • יִגְדַּ֣לyigdalverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he is great

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