Lexicon :: Strong's H1431 - gāḏal

I will make you into a great nation,

I will bless you,

I will make your name great,

and you will be a blessing.

“for we are about to destroy this place because the outcry against its people is so great before the LORD, that the LORD has sent us to destroy it.”

“Your servant has indeed found favor with you, and you have shown me great kindness by saving my life. But I can’t run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.

The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.

God was with the boy, and he grew; he settled in the wilderness and became an archer.

“The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male and female slaves, and camels and donkeys.

When the boys grew up, Esau became an expert hunter, an outdoorsman,[fn] but Jacob was a quiet man who stayed at home.[fn]

and the man became rich and kept getting richer until he was very wealthy.

Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Remain a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He might die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.

So she took off her widow’s clothes, veiled her face, covered herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.

“You will be over my house, and all my people will obey your commands.[fn] Only I, as king,[fn] will be greater than you.”

But his father refused and said, “I know, my son, I know! He too will become a tribe,[fn] and he too will be great; nevertheless, his younger brother will be greater than he, and his offspring will become a populous nation.”[fn]

When the child grew older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses,[fn] “Because,” she said, “I drew him out of the water.”

“You must not cut his hair[fn] throughout the time of his vow of consecration. He may be holy until the time is completed during which he consecrates himself to the LORD; he is to let the hair of his head grow long.

“So now, may my Lord’s power be magnified just as you have spoken:

The LORD spoke to Joshua: “Today I will begin to exalt you in the sight of all Israel, so they will know that I will be with you just as I was with Moses.

On that day the LORD exalted Joshua in the sight of all Israel, and they revered him throughout his life, as they had revered Moses.

Gilead’s wife bore him sons, and when they grew up, they drove Jephthah out and said to him, “You will have no inheritance in our father’s family, because you are the son of another woman.”

So the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the LORD blessed him.

“would you be willing to wait for them to grow up? Would you restrain yourselves from remarrying?[fn] No, my daughters, my life is much too bitter for you to share,[fn] because the LORD’s hand has turned against me.”

The LORD paid attention to Hannah’s need, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.

Samuel grew. The LORD was with him, and he fulfilled everything Samuel prophesied.[fn]

“Above all, fear the LORD and worship him faithfully with all your heart; consider the great things he has done for you.

When the servant had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone Ezel, fell facedown to the ground, and paid homage three times. Then he and Jonathan kissed each other and wept with each other, though David wept more.

“Just as I considered your life valuable today, so may the LORD consider my life valuable and rescue me from all trouble.”

This is why you are great, Lord GOD. There is no one like you, and there is no God besides you, as all we have heard confirms.

so that your name will be exalted forever, when it is said, “The LORD of Armies is God over Israel.” The house of your servant David will be established before you

but the poor man had nothing except one small ewe lamb that he had bought. He raised her, and she grew up with him and with his children. From his meager food she would eat, from his cup she would drink, and in his arms she would sleep. She was like a daughter to him.

He is a tower of salvation for[fn] his king;

he shows loyalty to his anointed,

to David and his descendants forever.

“Just as the LORD was with my lord the king, so may he[fn] be with Solomon and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord King David.”

“The king’s servants have also gone to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon more well known than your name, and may he make his throne greater than your throne.’ Then the king bowed in worship on his bed.

King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the world in riches and in wisdom.

But he rejected the advice of the elders who had advised him and consulted with the young men who had grown up with him and attended him.

The young men who had grown up with him told him, “This is what you should say to this people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you, make it lighter on us! ’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!

The child grew and one day went out to his father and the harvesters.

Then Jehu wrote them a second letter, saying:

If you are on my side, and if you will obey me, bring me the heads of your master’s sons[fn] at this time tomorrow at Jezreel.

All seventy of the king’s sons were being cared for by the city’s prominent men.

Let your name be confirmed and magnified forever in the saying, “The LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, is God over Israel.” May the house of your servant David be established before you.

David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the LORD must be exceedingly great and famous and glorious in all the lands. Therefore, I will make provision for it.” So David made lavish preparations for it before his death.

Riches and honor come from you, and you are the ruler of everything. Power and might are in your hand, and it is in your hand to make great and to give strength to all.

The LORD highly exalted Solomon in the sight of all Israel and bestowed on him such royal majesty as had not been bestowed on any king over Israel before him.

Solomon son of David strengthened his hold on his kingdom. The LORD his God was with him and highly exalted him.

King Solomon surpassed all the kings of the world in riches and wisdom.

But he rejected the advice of the elders who had advised him, and he consulted with the young men who had grown up with him, the ones attending him.

Then the young men who had grown up with him told him, “This is what you should say to the people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you, make it lighter on us! ’ This is what you should say to them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!

And I said:

My God, I am ashamed and embarrassed to lift my face toward you, my God, because our iniquities are higher than our heads and our guilt is as high as the heavens.

After all this took place, King Ahasuerus honored Haman, son of Hammedatha the Agagite. He promoted him in rank and gave him a higher position than all the other officials.

Then Haman described for them his glorious wealth and his many sons. He told them all how the king had honored him and promoted him in rank over the other officials and the royal staff.

All of his powerful and magnificent accomplishments and the detailed account of Mordecai’s great rank with which the king had honored him, have they not been written in the Book of the Historical Events of the Kings of Media and Persia?

Then they sat on the ground with him seven days and nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering was very intense.