Midvash

גָּדוֹלgâdôwl

great

Pronunciation: gaw-dole' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1419

Meanings

1. in magnitude and extent (Numbers 34:6; Genesis 15:18; Deuteronomy 1:19)

2. in number (Genesis 12:2; Jeremiah 31:8; 1 Chronicles 12:22)

3. in intensity (Deuteronomy 4:34; Isaiah 38:3; Exodus 32:11)

4. in sound, loud (Genesis 39:14; Exodus 11:6; Joshua 6:5)

5. in age (Genesis 27:1; Genesis 29:16; Genesis 10:21)

6. in importance

a. things, an important thing (Exodus 18:22; Deuteronomy 4:32; 1 Samuel 12:16)

b. of men, great, distinguished, šarru rabbu, šarru dannu (Exodus 11:3; 2 Samuel 5:10; Job 1:3)

c. of God, himself, his works (2 Chronicles 2:4; Nehemiah 4:8; Nehemiah 8:6)

7. in phrases (Genesis 29:7; Deuteronomy 1:17; 1 Chronicles 25:8)

8. construct (Ezekiel 17:8; Ezekiel 17:7; Proverbs 19:19)

9. as substantive concrete (Deuteronomy 10:21; Job 5:9; Job 9:10)

10. as substantive neuter (Exodus 15:16)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 526 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 1:16 God made two great lights—the larger one to govern the day, and the smaller one to govern the night. He also made the stars.
  • Genesis 1:21 So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that scurries and swarms in the water, and every sort of bird—each producing offspring of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.
  • Genesis 4:13 Cain replied to the Lord, “My punishment is too great for me to bear!
  • Genesis 10:12 and Resen (the great city located between Nineveh and Calah).
  • Genesis 10:21 Sons were also born to Shem, the older brother of Japheth. Shem was the ancestor of all the descendants of Eber.
  • Genesis 12:2 I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).