Strong's Definition
a primitive root; properly, to twist (compare 1434), i.e. to be (causatively make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride)
KJV Usage: advance, boast, bring up, exceed, excellent, be(-come, do, give, make, wax), great(-er, come to...estate, + things), grow(up),increase, lift up, magnify(-ifical), be much set by, nourish (up), pass, promote, proudly (spoken), tower
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
גָּדַל (ga.dal) — to magnify. 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
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · גָּדֹול · גְּדוּלָה · גִּדֵּל · גָּדֵל · גֹּדֶל · מִגְדָּל · גְּדַלְיָה · גְּדַלְיָהוּ · גִּדַּלְתִּי · יִגְדַּלְיָהוּ · מִגְדֹּל
Large | verb qal
to be large, to grow large = process by which objects increase in size
Large | verb pi, verb hif
to cause to grow, to let grow, to make big = causative process where someone causes or permits objects to increase in size
Speak | verb hif
Collocation: גדל פִּי
to boast literally: to make great (one's) mouth; hence: = action by which humans speak boastful things
Speak | verb hif
Collocation: גדל עָקֵב
to speak lies (about someone) literally: to make great (one's) heel (over someone else); hence, possibly: = action by which humans speak lies about other humans
Stage | verb qal | ≈ רבה
to grow up = process by which young humans or animals undergo the natural development of increasing in size and changing physically on their way to being fully grown
GEN 21:8 · GEN 21:20 · GEN 25:27 · GEN 38:11 · GEN 38:14 · EXO 2:10 · EXO 2:11 · JDG 11:2 · JDG 13:24 · RUT 1:13 · 1SA 2:21 · 1SA 2:26 · 1SA 3:19 · 2SA 12:3 · 1KI 12:8 · 1KI 12:10 · 2KI 4:18 · 2CH 10:8 · 2CH 10:10 · JOB 31:18 · EZK 16:7
Stage | verb pi, verb pu'al | ≈ ילד · רום
to make grow, to bring up, to rear, to educate, to tend = causative process by which humans take care of young plants or young humans while they undergo the natural development of increasing in size and changing physically on their way to being fully grown
2KI 10:6 · PSA 144:12 · ISA 1:2 · ISA 23:4 · ISA 44:14 · ISA 49:21 · ISA 51:18 · EZK 31:4 · DAN 1:5 · HOS 9:12 · JON 4:10
Great | verb qal | ≈ הֹוד · הָדָר
to be great, to become great = process by which humans or deities increase in status, as a result of their authority, rank, wealth, or wisdom
GEN 24:35 · GEN 26:13 · GEN 26:13 · GEN 26:13 · GEN 41:40 · 1SA 26:24 · 1SA 26:24 · 2SA 5:10 · 2SA 7:22 · 1KI 10:23 · 1CH 11:9 · 2CH 9:22 · 2CH 17:12 · EST 9:4 · PSA 35:27 · PSA 40:17 · PSA 70:5 · PSA 104:1 · ECC 2:9 · JER 5:27 · MIC 5:3 · MAL 1:5
Great | verb hit, verb hif | ≈ פאר · רום
to make oneself great, to show one's greatness, to magnify oneself = action by which humans or deities show others their elevated status, which they have, either in their own eyes or in the eyes of other people, ≈ which can either be good or bad, depending on whether this status is justified
JOB 19:5 · PSA 35:26 · PSA 38:17 · PSA 55:13 · ISA 10:15 · JER 48:26 · JER 48:42 · LAM 1:9 · EZK 35:13 · EZK 38:23 · DAN 8:4 · DAN 8:8 · DAN 8:11 · DAN 8:25 · DAN 11:36 · DAN 11:37 · ZEP 2:8 · ZEP 2:10
Great | verb pi | ≈ חזק
to make great, to promote = causative process by which humans or deities cause humans to increase in status, as a result of their authority, wealth, or wisdom
JOS 3:7 · JOS 4:14 · 1KI 1:37 · 1KI 1:47 · 1CH 22:5 · 1CH 29:12 · 1CH 29:25 · 2CH 1:1 · EST 3:1 · EST 5:11 · EST 10:2 · JOB 7:17
Praise | verb pi | ≈ רום
to extol = action by which humans proclaim the greatness of a deity
1 2SA 22:51 MT-K מגדיל | MT-Q מִגְדֹּול "tower" 2 PSA 18:51 MT-K מגדל | MT-Q מַגְדִּיל
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
גָּדַל 115 vb. grow up, become great Qal grow up
become great
to be magnified
Pi. cause to grow
make great, powerful
magnify
Pu. brought up
Hiph. make great
magnify
do great things
Hithp. I will magnify myself
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