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Lexicon :: Strong's H1419 - gāḏôl

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גָּדוֹל
Transliteration
gāḏôl
Pronunciation
gaw-dole'
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Part of Speech
adjective, proper masculine noun, substantive
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 315d

Strong’s Definitions

גָּדוֹל gâdôwl, gaw-dole'; or גָּדֹל gâdôl; (shortened) from H1431; great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent:— aloud, elder(-est), exceeding(-ly), far, (man of) great (man, matter, thing,-er,-ness), high, long, loud, mighty, more, much, noble, proud thing, × sore, (×) very.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 529x

The KJV translates Strong's H1419 in the following manner: great (397x), high (22x), greater (19x), loud (9x), greatest (9x), elder (8x), great man (8x), mighty (7x), eldest (6x), miscellaneous (44x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 529x
The KJV translates Strong's H1419 in the following manner: great (397x), high (22x), greater (19x), loud (9x), greatest (9x), elder (8x), great man (8x), mighty (7x), eldest (6x), miscellaneous (44x).
adjective
  1. great

    1. large (in magnitude and extent)

    2. in number

    3. in intensity

    4. loud (in sound)

    5. older (in age)

    6. in importance

      1. important things

      2. great, distinguished (of men)

      3. God Himself (of God)

        substantive
    7. great things

    8. haughty things

    9. greatness

      proper masculine noun
Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
גָּדוֹל gâdôwl, gaw-dole'; or גָּדֹל gâdôl; (shortened) from H1431; great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent:— aloud, elder(-est), exceeding(-ly), far, (man of) great (man, matter, thing,-er,-ness), high, long, loud, mighty, more, much, noble, proud thing, × sore, (×) very.
STRONGS H1419: Abbreviations
גָּדוֺל 522 adjective greatג׳ Genesis 4:13 + 279 times; גָּדֹל Deuteronomy 26:8 + 22 times; construct גְּדוֺל Ezekiel 17:3, 7; Jeremiah 32:19, גְּדָל־ Proverbs 19:19, גְּדָו֯ל־ Psalm 145:8; Nahum 1:3; suffix גְּדוֺלָם Jeremiah 6:13 + 2 times; plural גְּדוֺלִים Exodus 7:4 + 11 times, גְּדֹלִים Genesis 12:17 + 22 times; construct גְּדֹלֵי 2 Kings 10:6; suffix גְּדֹלָיו 2 Kings 10:11; Jonah 3:7; גְּדוֺלֶיהָ Nahum 3:10; feminine גְּדוֺלָה Numbers 22:18 + 96 times; גְּדֹלָה Genesis 15:12 + 31 times; plural גְּדוֺלֹת Nehemiah 9:26; Nehemiah 12:31, גְּדֹלוֺת Deuteronomy 27:2 + 30 times, גְּדֹלֹת Numbers 13:28 + 7 times; — great,
1. in magnitude and extent, e.g. sea Numbers 34:6, river Genesis 15:18, wilderness Deuteronomy 1:19, rain 1 Kings 18:45, mountain Zechariah 4:7, city Genesis 10:12, house Jeremiah 52:13, altar Joshua 22:10, throne 2 Chronicles 9:17, sea-monsters Genesis 1:21, fish Jonah 2:1, eagle Ezekiel 17:3, terebinth 2 Samuel 18:9, substance Genesis 15:14, wealth Daniel 11:2, victory 1 Samuel 19:5, 22 בּוֺר הַגָּדוֺל read הַגֹּרֶן ב׳ according to Greek Version of the LXX We Dr.
2. in number, e.g. nation Genesis 12:2, congregation Jeremiah 31:8, camp 1 Chronicles 12:22, army Ezekiel 17:17, sacrifice 2 Kings 10:19, slaughter Deuteronomy 28:59; 1 Samuel 4:17.
3. in intensity, fear Deuteronomy 4:34, weeping Isaiah 38:3, power כּחַ Exodus 32:11, joy Jonah 4:6, anger Deuteronomy 29:23, indignation Jeremiah 21:5, sin Genesis 20:9, iniquity Genesis 4:13, evil Genesis 39:9, trespass Ezekiel 9:7.
4. in sound, loud voice Genesis 39:14, cry Exodus 11:6, shout Joshua 6:5.
5. in age, elder, eldest, son Genesis 27:1, daughter Genesis 29:16, brother Genesis 10:21, sister Ezekiel 16:46.
6. in importance,
a. things(הַ)דָּבָר (הַ)גָּדֹל an important thing or affair Exodus 18:22; Deuteronomy 4:32; 1 Samuel 12:16; 2 Kings 5:12; 2 Kings 8:13; יום יהוה Jeremiah 30:7; Hosea 2:2; Joel 2:11; Joel 3:4; Zephaniah 1:14; Malachi 3:23 [Malachi 4:5].
b. of men, great, distinguished, Moses Exodus 11:3, David 2 Samuel 5:10, Job Job 1:3, Mordecai Esther 9:4, kings Ecclesiastes 9:14; Jeremiah 27:7; especially of king of Assyria הַמֶּלֶךְ הַגָּדוֺל 2 Kings 18:19, 28 = Isaiah 36:4, 18, = Assyrian šarru rabbu, šarru dannu, e.g. KBi. 94, 1. 1; הַכֹּהֵן הַגָּדוֺל the h.p. Leviticus 21:10 + 20 times; (הָ)אִישׁ גָּדוֺל 1 Samuel 25:2; 2 Samuel 19:33; 2 Kings 5:1; אִשָּׁה גְדוֺלָה 2 Kings 4:8; גָּדוֺל a great man 2 Samuel 3:38; Micah 7:3; לֹא תֶהְדַּר מְּנֵי גָדוֺל thou shalt not honour (favour) the person of a great man (opposed to דָּל) Leviticus 19:15 (H); (הַ)גְּדוֺלִים the great 2 Samuel 7:9 = 1 Chronicles 17:8; Nehemiah 11:14 (see below) Proverbs 18:16; Proverbs 25:6; Jeremiah 5:5 (2 Kings 10:11 LXX of Lucian (Lag.) ἀγχιστεύοντας, Klo גֹּאֲלָיו); further גְּדֹלֵי הָעִיר 2 Kings 10:6; (כָּל־)גְּדֹלָיו 2 Kings 10:11; Jonah 3:7; כָּל־ גְּדוֺלֶיהָ Nahum 3:10.
7. in phrases † עוֺד הַיּוֺם גָּדוֺל it is yet high day (French grand jour, German hoch am Tage, the day is at its height) Genesis 29:7; כַּקָּטֹן כַּגָּדֹל (or reverse) as well small as great Deuteronomy 1:17; 1 Chronicles 25:8; 1 Chronicles 26:13; 2 Chronicles 31:15; (לְ)מִקָּטֹן וְעַד גָּדוֺל (or reverse) from small to great Genesis 19:11; 1 Samuel 5:9; 1 Samuel 30:2, 19; 2 Kings 23:2; 2 Kings 25:26; 2 Chronicles 15:13; 34:30; Esther 1:5, 20; Jeremiah 6:13; Jeremiah 8:10; Jeremiah 31:34; Jeremiah 42:1, 8; Jeremiah 44:12; Jonah 3:5.
8. construct גְּדֹל (הַ)כְּנָפַיִם great of wings Ezekiel 17:8, 7, so of anger Proverbs 19:19 (Qr); usually of God, in power Nahum 1:3, counsel Jeremiah 32:19, mercy Psalm 145:8.
9. as substantive concrete עשׂה גדלות do great things, of God's great acts of redemption and judgement Deuteronomy 10:21; Job 5:9; Job 9:10; Job 37:5; Psalm 71:19; Psalm 106:21; of the miracles of Elisha 2 Kings 8:4; of things too great and so presumptuous, haughty תבקשׁ ג׳ Jeremiah 45:5; מדברת ג׳ Psalm 12:4; לא הלכתי בג׳ Psalm 131:1 (compare Biblical Aramaic Daniel 7:8, 11, 20; also Revelation 13:5).
10. as substantive neuter greatness of arm Exodus 15:16; compare גָּבֹהַּ 4

הַגְּדוֺלִים proper name, masculine father of Zabdiel Nehemiah 11:14 (RV & so most; but Greek Version of the LXX RVm and others the great).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:21; 4:13; 4:13; 10:12; 10:21; 12:2; 12:17; 15:12; 15:14; 15:18; 19:11; 20:9; 27:1; 29:7; 29:16; 39:9; 39:14

Exodus

7:4; 11:3; 11:6; 15:16; 18:11; 18:22; 32:11

Leviticus

19:15; 21:10

Numbers

13:28; 22:18; 34:6

Deuteronomy

1:17; 1:19; 4:32; 4:34; 7:21; 10:17; 10:21; 11:7; 26:8; 27:2; 28:59; 29:23

Joshua

6:5; 7:9; 22:10

Judges

2:7

1 Samuel

4:17; 5:9; 12:16; 12:22; 19:5; 19:22; 25:2; 30:2; 30:19

2 Samuel

3:38; 5:10; 7:9; 18:9; 19:33

1 Kings

3:6; 8:42; 18:45

2 Kings

4:8; 5:1; 5:12; 8:4; 8:13; 10:6; 10:6; 10:11; 10:11; 10:11; 10:19; 18:19; 18:28; 23:2; 25:26

1 Chronicles

12:22; 16:25; 17:8; 25:8; 26:13

2 Chronicles

1:8; 2:4; 6:32; 9:17; 15:13; 31:15; 34:30

Nehemiah

1:5; 4:8; 8:6; 9:25; 9:26; 9:32; 11:14; 11:14; 12:31

Esther

1:5; 1:20; 9:4

Job

1:3; 5:9; 9:10; 37:5

Psalms

12:4; 21:6; 47:3; 48:2; 57:11; 71:19; 76:2; 77:14; 86:10; 86:13; 95:3; 95:3; 96:4; 99:2; 99:3; 106:21; 108:5; 111:2; 131:1; 135:5; 138:5; 145:3; 145:8; 145:8; 147:5

Proverbs

18:16; 19:19; 19:19; 25:6

Ecclesiastes

9:14

Isaiah

12:6; 36:4; 36:18; 38:3; 54:7

Jeremiah

5:5; 6:13; 6:13; 8:10; 10:6; 10:6; 21:5; 27:7; 30:7; 31:8; 31:34; 32:18; 32:19; 32:19; 42:1; 42:8; 44:12; 44:26; 45:5; 52:13

Ezekiel

9:7; 16:46; 17:3; 17:3; 17:7; 17:7; 17:8; 17:17; 36:23

Daniel

7:8; 7:11; 7:20; 9:4; 11:2

Hosea

2:2

Joel

2:11; 3:4

Jonah

2:1; 3:5; 3:7; 3:7; 4:6

Micah

7:3

Nahum

1:3; 1:3; 3:10; 3:10

Zephaniah

1:14

Zechariah

4:7

Malachi

1:11; 1:14; 4:5

Revelation

13:5

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1419 matches the Hebrew גָּדוֹל (gāḏôl),
which occurs 530 times in 499 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 2 / 10 (Num 22:18–Jos 7:9)

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 22:18 - And Balaam replied to the servants of Balak, “Though Balak were to give me his house full of silver and gold, I could not do anything, either small or great H1419, to trespass the [fn]command of Yahweh my God.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:6 -

‘And as for the west border, you shall have the Great H1419 Sea, that is, its [fn]coastline; this shall be your west border.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 34:7 -

‘And this shall be your north border: you shall draw your border line from the Great H1419 Sea to Mount Hor.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:25 - ‘And the congregation shall deliver the manslayer from the hand of the blood avenger, and the congregation shall restore him to his city of refuge to which he fled; and he shall live in it until the death of the high H1419 priest who was anointed with the holy oil.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 35:28 - because he should have remained in his city of refuge until the death of the high H1419 priest. But after the death of the high H1419 priest the manslayer shall return to the land of his possession.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:7 - ‘Turn and set out, and go to the hill country of the Amorites, and to all their neighbors in the Arabah, in the hill country and in the [fn]Shephelah and in the [fn]Negev and by the seacoast, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great H1419 river, the river Euphrates.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:17 - ‘You shall not show partiality in judgment; you shall hear the small and the great H1419 alike. You shall not fear [fn]man, for the judgment is God’s. The case that is too hard for you, you shall bring to me, and I will hear it.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:19 -

“Then we set out from Horeb and went through all that great H1419 and fearsome wilderness which you saw on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, just as Yahweh our God had commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:28 - ‘Where can we go up? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying, “The people are bigger H1419 and taller than we; the cities are large H1419 and fortified to heaven. And moreover, we saw the sons of the Anakim there.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:7 - “For Yahweh your God has blessed you in all the work of your hand; He has known your [fn]wanderings through this great H1419 wilderness. These forty years Yahweh your God has been with you; you have not lacked a thing.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:10 - (The Emim lived there formerly, a people as great H1419, numerous, and tall as the Anakim.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 2:21 - a people as great H1419, numerous, and tall as the Anakim, but Yahweh destroyed them before them. And they dispossessed them and settled in their place,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:6 - “You shall keep and do them, for that is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples who will hear all these statutes and say, ‘Surely this great H1419 nation is a wise and understanding people.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:7 - “For what great H1419 nation is there that has a god so near to it as is Yahweh our God whenever we call on Him?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:8 - “Or what great H1419 nation is there that has statutes and judgments as righteous as this whole law which I am setting before you today?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:32 -

“Indeed, ask now concerning the former days which were before you, since the day that God created [fn]man on the earth, and inquire from one end of the heavens to the other. Has anything been done like this great H1419 thing, or has anything been heard like it?

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:34 - “Or has a god tried to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation with trials, with signs and wonders and with war and with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm and with great H1419 terrors, [fn]as Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:36 - “Out of the heavens He caused you to hear His voice to discipline you; and on earth He caused you to see His great H1419 fire, and you heard His words from the midst of the fire.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:37 - [fn]Because He loved your fathers, therefore He chose their seed after them. And He [fn]personally brought you from Egypt by His great H1419 power,
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 4:38 - dispossessing before you nations greater H1419 and mightier than you, to bring you in and to give you their land for an inheritance, as it is today.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:22 -

“These words Yahweh spoke to all your assembly at the mountain from the midst of the fire, of the cloud and of the dense gloom, with a great H1419 voice, and He added no more. He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 5:25 - ‘So now then why should we die? For this great H1419 fire will consume us; if we hear the voice of Yahweh our God any longer, then we will die.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:10 -

“Then it will be, when Yahweh your God brings you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great H1419 and good cities which you did not build,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:22 - ‘Moreover, Yahweh showed great H1419 and calamitous signs and wonders before our eyes against Egypt, Pharaoh, and all his household;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:19 - the great H1419 trials which your eyes saw and the signs and the wonders and the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which Yahweh your God brought you out. So shall Yahweh your God do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:21 - “You shall not dread [fn]them, for Yahweh your God is in your midst, a great H1419 and fearsome God.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:23 - “But Yahweh your God will give them over before you and will [fn]throw them into great H1419 confusion until they are destroyed.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:15 - “He led you through the great H1419 and fearsome wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water; He brought water for you out of the rock of flint.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:1 -

“Hear, O Israel! You are crossing over the Jordan today to go in to dispossess nations greater H1419 and mightier than you, great H1419 cities [fn]fortified to heaven,

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:2 - a people great H1419 and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know and of whom you have heard it said, ‘Who can stand before the sons of Anak?’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:29 - ‘Yet they are Your people, even Your inheritance, whom You have brought out by Your great H1419 power and Your outstretched arm.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:17 - “For Yahweh your God is the God of gods and the Lord of lords, the great H1419, the mighty, and the fearsome God who does not show partiality nor take a bribe.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 10:21 - “He is your praise, and He is your God, who has done these great H1419 and fearsome things for you which your eyes have seen.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:7 - but your own eyes have seen all the great H1419 work of Yahweh which He did.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 11:23 - then Yahweh will dispossess all these nations from before you, and you will dispossess nations greater H1419 and mightier than you.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 18:16 - “This is according to all that you asked of Yahweh your God in Horeb on the day of the assembly, saying, ‘Let me not hear again the voice of Yahweh my God; let me not see this great H1419 fire anymore, or I will die.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:13 -

“You shall not have in your bag [fn]differing weights, a large H1419 and a small.

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:14 - “You shall not have in your house [fn]differing measures, a large H1419 and a small.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:5 - “And you shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, ‘My father was a [fn]wandering Aramean, and he went down to Egypt and [fn]sojourned there, few in number; but there he became a great H1419, mighty, and populous nation.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 26:8 - and Yahweh brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand and an outstretched arm and with great H1419 terror and with signs and wonders;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:2 - “So it will be on the day when you cross the Jordan to the land which Yahweh your God gives you, that you shall set up for yourself large H1419 stones and coat them with lime
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:59 - then Yahweh will bring wondrous plagues on you and plagues on those who are your seed, even great H1419 and enduring plagues, and miserable and enduring sicknesses.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:3 - the great H1419 trials which your eyes have seen, those great H1419 signs and wonders.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:24 - “And all the nations will say, ‘Why has Yahweh done thus to this land? Why this great H1419 burning anger?’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 29:28 - and Yahweh uprooted them from their land in anger and in fury and in great H1419 wrath, and He cast them into another land, as it is this day.’
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 34:12 - and [fn]in regard to all the mighty [fn]power and [fn]in regard to all the great H1419 terror which Moses did in the sight of all Israel.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 1:4 - “From the wilderness and this Lebanon, even as far as the great H1419 river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, and as far as the Great H1419 Sea toward the setting of the sun will be your territory.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:5 - “And it will be that when they make a long blast with the ram’s horn, and when you hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great H1419 shout; and the wall of the city will fall down [fn]beneath itself, and the people will go up every man [fn]straight ahead.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:20 - So the people shouted, and [fn]the priests blew the trumpets; and when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, the people shouted with a great H1419 shout, and the wall fell down [fn]beneath itself, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight [fn]ahead, and they took the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:9 - “And the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land will hear of it, and they will surround us and cut off our name from the earth. And what will You do for Your great H1419 name?”

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