Gadal גָּדַל

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Gadal
גָּדַל
Transliterationgadal
Strong's numberH1431
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechverb
Glossto magnify
Occurrences117 in 114 verses
Most frequent inPsalms (16)

Gadal (Hebrew גָּדַל, Strong's H1431) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to magnify”. It occurs 117 times in 114 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

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

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVgreat (26), magnified (17), magnify (15), up (15), grew (7), grown (5), greater (5), things (4), make (3), grow (2), exceeded (2), became (1), and 14 other renderings
BSBgreat (9), had grown up (6), grew (5), grew up (3), be magnified (3), greater (3), exalted (2), surpassed (2), magnify (2), great things (2), is so great (1), he grew up (1), and 76 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Gadal, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Exodus

Numbers

Joshua

Judges

Ruth

1 Samuel

2 Samuel

1 Kings

2 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Ezra

Esther

Job

Psalms

Ecclesiastes

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Lamentations

Ezekiel

Daniel

Hosea

Joel

Amos

Obadiah

Jonah

Micah

Zephaniah

Zechariah

Malachi

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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