# גָּדַל (gadal) Israeli respelling: ga-dal. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H1431. 112 Old Testament occurrences. to be (causatively make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride) King James renderings: 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), towe… Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/gadal-h1431 ## Occurrences - [Genesis 12:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/12/2) — And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: - [Genesis 19:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/19/13) — For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it. - [Genesis 19:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/19/19) — Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy, which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life;… - [Genesis 21:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/21/8) — And the child grew, and was weaned: and Abraham made a great feast the same day that Isaac was weaned. - [Genesis 21:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/21/20) — And God was with the lad; and he grew, and dwelt in the wilderness, and became an archer. - [Genesis 24:35](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/24/35) — And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and men… - [Genesis 25:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/25/27) — And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter, a man of the field; and Jacob was a plain man, dwelling in tents. - [Genesis 26:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/26/13) — And the man waxed great, and went forward, and grew until he became very great: - [Genesis 38:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/38/11) — Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter in law, Remain a widow at thy father’s house, till Shelah my son be grown: for he said, Lest peradven… - [Genesis 38:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/38/14) — And she put her widow’s garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the… - [Genesis 41:40](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/41/40) — Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou. - [Genesis 48:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/48/19) — And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his yo… - [Exodus 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/2/10) — And the child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses: and she said, Becaus… - [Exodus 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/2/11) — And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an E… - [Numbers 6:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/6/5) — All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth… - [Numbers 14:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/14/17) — And now, I beseech thee, let the power of my LORD be great, according as thou hast spoken, saying, - [Joshua 3:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/3/7) — And the LORD said unto Joshua, This day will I begin to magnify thee in the sight of all Israel, that they may know that, as I was with Mos… - [Joshua 4:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/4/14) — On that day the LORD magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel; and they feared him, as they feared Moses, all the days of his life. - [Judges 11:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/11/2) — And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and his wife’s sons grew up, and they thrust out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in ou… - [Judges 13:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/13/24) — And the woman bare a son, and called his name Samson: and the child grew, and the LORD blessed him. - [Ruth 1:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ruth/1/13) — Would ye tarry for them till they were grown? would ye stay for them from having husbands? nay, my daughters; for it grieveth me much for y… - [1 Samuel 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/2/21) — And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD. - [1 Samuel 3:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/3/19) — And Samuel grew, and the LORD was with him, and did let none of his words fall to the ground. - [1 Samuel 12:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/12/24) — Only fear the LORD, and serve him in truth with all your heart: for consider how great things he hath done for you. - [1 Samuel 20:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/20/41) — And as soon as the lad was gone, David arose out of a place toward the south, and fell on his face to the ground, and bowed himself three t… - [1 Samuel 26:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/26/24) — And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of the LORD, and let him deliver… - [2 Samuel 7:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/7/22) — Wherefore thou art great, O LORD God: for there is none like thee, neither is there any God beside thee, according to all that we have hear… - [2 Samuel 7:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/7/26) — And let thy name be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God over Israel: and let the house of thy servant David be establi… - [2 Samuel 12:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/12/3) — But the poor man had nothing, save one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up together with him, and with hi… - [2 Samuel 22:51](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/22/51) — He is the tower of salvation for his king: and sheweth mercy to his anointed, unto David, and to his seed for evermore. - [1 Kings 1:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/1/37) — As the LORD hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David. - [1 Kings 1:47](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/1/47) — And moreover the king’s servants came to bless our lord king David, saying, God make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and make his… - [1 Kings 10:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/10/23) — So king Solomon exceeded all the kings of the earth for riches and for wisdom. - [1 Kings 12:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/12/8) — But he forsook the counsel of the old men, which they had given him, and consulted with the young men that were grown up with him, and whic… - [1 Kings 12:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/12/10) — And the young men that were grown up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou speak unto this people that spake unto thee, saying,… - [2 Kings 4:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/4/18) — And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers. - [2 Kings 10:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/10/6) — Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be mine, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men y… - [1 Chronicles 17:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/17/24) — Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The LORD of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel:… - [1 Chronicles 22:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/22/5) — And David said, Solomon my son is young and tender, and the house that is to be builded for the LORD must be exceeding magnifical, of fame… - [1 Chronicles 29:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/29/12) — Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make grea… - [1 Chronicles 29:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/29/25) — And the LORD magnified Solomon exceedingly in the sight of all Israel, and bestowed upon him such royal majesty as had not been on any king… - [2 Chronicles 1:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/1/1) — And Solomon the son of David was strengthened in his kingdom, and the LORD his God was with him, and magnified him exceedingly. - [2 Chronicles 9:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/9/22) — And king Solomon passed all the kings of the earth in riches and wisdom. - [2 Chronicles 10:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/10/8) — But he forsook the counsel which the old men gave him, and took counsel with the young men that were brought up with him, that stood before… - [2 Chronicles 10:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/10/10) — And the young men that were brought up with him spake unto him, saying, Thus shalt thou answer the people that spake unto thee, saying, Thy… - [Ezra 9:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/9/6) — And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our tres… - [Esther 3:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/3/1) — After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the pri… - [Esther 5:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/5/11) — And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, an… - [Esther 10:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/esther/10/2) — And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the declaration of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they… - [Job 2:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/2/13) — So they sat down with him upon the ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him: for they saw that his grief was very… - [Job 7:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/7/17) — What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him? and that thou shouldest set thine heart upon him? - [Job 19:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/19/5) — If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach: - [Job 31:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/31/18) — (For from my youth he was brought up with me, as with a father, and I have guided her from my mother’s womb;) - [Psalms 18:50](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/18/50) — Great deliverance giveth he to his king; and sheweth mercy to his anointed, to David, and to his seed for evermore. - [Psalms 34:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/34/3) — O magnify the LORD with me, and let us exalt his name together. - [Psalms 35:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/35/26) — Let them be ashamed and brought to confusion together that rejoice at mine hurt: let them be clothed with shame and dishonour that magnify… - [Psalms 35:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/35/27) — Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the LORD be magnified, which hath p… - [Psalms 38:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/38/16) — For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me. - [Psalms 40:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/40/16) — Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: let such as love thy salvation say continually, The LORD be magnified. - [Psalms 41:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/41/9) — Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me. - [Psalms 55:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/55/12) — For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it: neither was it he that hated me that did magnify himself against me… - [Psalms 69:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/69/30) — I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving. - [Psalms 70:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/70/4) — Let all those that seek thee rejoice and be glad in thee: and let such as love thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified. - [Psalms 92:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/92/5) — O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep. - [Psalms 104:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/104/1) — Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty. - [Psalms 126:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/126/2) — Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for… - [Psalms 126:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/126/3) — The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad. - [Psalms 138:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/138/2) — I will worship toward thy holy temple, and praise thy name for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: for thou hast magnified thy word above… - [Psalms 144:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/144/12) — That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a pala… - [Ecclesiastes 1:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/1/16) — I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me i… - [Ecclesiastes 2:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/4) — I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards: - [Ecclesiastes 2:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ecclesiastes/2/9) — So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me. - [Isaiah 1:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/1/2) — Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against… - [Isaiah 9:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/9/3) — Thou hast multiplied the nation, and not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, and as men rejoice when t… - [Isaiah 10:15](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/15) — Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? or shall the saw magnify itself against him that shaketh it? as if the rod sh… - [Isaiah 23:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/23/4) — Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither d… - [Isaiah 28:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/28/29) — This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working. - [Isaiah 42:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/42/21) — The LORD is well pleased for his righteousness’ sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable. - [Isaiah 44:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/44/14) — He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he plantet… - [Isaiah 49:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/21) — Then shalt thou say in thine heart, Who hath begotten me these, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to… - [Isaiah 51:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/51/18) — There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons… - [Jeremiah 5:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/5/27) — As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich. - [Jeremiah 48:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/48/26) — Make ye him drunken: for he magnified himself against the LORD: Moab also shall wallow in his vomit, and he also shall be in derision. - [Jeremiah 48:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/48/42) — And Moab shall be destroyed from being a people, because he hath magnified himself against the LORD. - [Lamentations 1:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/1/9) — Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behol… - [Lamentations 4:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/4/6) — For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as… - [Ezekiel 16:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/16/7) — I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments:… - [Ezekiel 24:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/24/9) — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Woe to the bloody city! I will even make the pile for fire great. - [Ezekiel 31:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/31/4) — The waters made him great, the deep set him up on high with her rivers running round about his plants, and sent out her little rivers unto… - [Ezekiel 35:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/35/13) — Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them. - [Ezekiel 38:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/38/23) — Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD. - [Daniel 1:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/1/5) — And the king appointed them a daily provision of the king’s meat, and of the wine which he drank: so nourishing them three years, that at t… - [Daniel 8:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/8/4) — I saw the ram pushing westward, and northward, and southward; so that no beasts might stand before him, neither was there any that could de… - [Daniel 8:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/8/8) — Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the… - [Daniel 8:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/8/9) — And out of one of them came forth a little horn, which waxed exceeding great, toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the pleasan… - [Daniel 8:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/8/10) — And it waxed great, even to the host of heaven; and it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground, and stamped upon them. - [Daniel 8:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/8/11) — Yea, he magnified himself even to the prince of the host, and by him the daily sacrifice was taken away, and the place of his sanctuary was… - [Daniel 8:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/8/25) — And through his policy also he shall cause craft to prosper in his hand; and he shall magnify himself in his heart, and by peace shall dest… - [Daniel 11:36](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/36) — And the king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvellous th… - [Daniel 11:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/11/37) — Neither shall he regard the God of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god: for he shall magnify himself above all. - [Hosea 9:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/9/12) — Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from… - [Joel 2:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/20) — But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea… - [Joel 2:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joel/2/21) — Fear not, O land; be glad and rejoice: for the LORD will do great things. - [Amos 8:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/8/5) — Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and th… - [Obadiah 1:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/obadiah/1/12) — But thou shouldest not have looked on the day of thy brother in the day that he became a stranger; neither shouldest thou have rejoiced ove… - [Jonah 4:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/4/10) — Then said the LORD, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night… - [Micah 5:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/5/4) — And he shall stand and feed in the strength of the LORD, in the majesty of the name of the LORD his God; and they shall abide: for now shal… - [Zephaniah 2:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/2/8) — I have heard the reproach of Moab, and the revilings of the children of Ammon, whereby they have reproached my people, and magnified themse… - [Zephaniah 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zephaniah/2/10) — This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of the LORD of hosts. - [Zechariah 12:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/12/7) — The LORD also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem do no… - [Zechariah 12:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/zechariah/12/11) — In that day shall there be a great mourning in Jerusalem, as the mourning of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddon. - [Malachi 1:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/malachi/1/5) — And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, The LORD will be magnified from the border of Israel.