גָּדוֹל

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

• great: large H1419A 497
• great: old H1419K · a Meaning of 15
• Great (Sea) H1419J 13
• Haggedolim H1419B 1

Strong's dictionary

or גָּדֹל; (shortened) from גָּדַל; great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent; [phrase] aloud, elder(-est), [phrase] exceeding(-ly), [phrase] far, (man of) great (man, matter, thing,-er,-ness), high, long, loud, mighty, more, much, noble, proud thing, [idiom] sore, ([idiom]) very.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Every occurrence

21. 1 Samuel 17:25 גָּד֗וֹל ga.Dol · Describes something

    And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.

22. 1 Samuel 17:28 הַגָּד֔וֹל ha.ga.Dol · Describes something

    And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spake unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why art thou come down? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy pride, and the naughtiness of thy heart; for thou art come down that thou mightest see the battle.

23. 1 Samuel 18:17 הַגְּדוֹלָ֤ה ha.ge.do.Lah · Describes something

    And Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight Jehovah's battles. For Saul said, Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.

24. 1 Samuel 19:5 גְדוֹלָה֙ ge.do.Lah · Describes something

    for he put his life in his hand, and smote the Philistine, and Jehovah wrought a great victory for all Israel: thou sawest it, and didst rejoice; wherefore then wilt thou sin against innocent blood, to slay David without a cause?

25. 1 Samuel 19:8 גְדוֹלָ֔ה ge.do.Lah · Describes something

    And there was war again: and David went out, and fought with the Philistines, and slew them with a great slaughter; and they fled before him.

26. 1 Samuel 19:22 הַגָּדוֹל֙ ha.ga.dOl · Describes something

    Then went he also to Ramah, and came to the great well that is in Secu: and he asked and said, Where are Samuel and David? And one said, Behold, they are at Naioth in Ramah.

27. 1 Samuel 20:2 גָּד֗וֹל ga.Dol · Describes something

    And he said unto him, Far from it; thou shalt not die: behold, my father doeth nothing either great or small, but that he discloseth it unto me; and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.

28. 1 Samuel 22:15 גָדֽוֹל׃ ga.Dol · Describes something

    Have I to-day begun to inquire of God for him? be it far from me: let not the king impute anything unto his servant, nor to all the house of my father; for thy servant knoweth nothing of all this, less or more.

29. 1 Samuel 23:5 גְדוֹלָ֑ה ge.do.Lah · Describes something

    And David and his men went to Keilah, and fought with the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and slew them with a great slaughter. So David save the inhabitants of Keilah.

30. 1 Samuel 25:2 גָּד֣וֹל ga.Dol · Describes something

    And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

31. 1 Samuel 25:36 וְגָד֖וֹל ve.ga.Dol · Describes something

    And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him, for he was very drunken: wherefore she told him nothing, less or more, until the morning light.

32. 1 Samuel 28:12 גָּד֑וֹל ga.Dol · Describes something

    And when the woman saw Samuel, she cried with a loud voice; and the woman spake to Saul, saying, Why hast thou deceived me? for thou art Saul.

33. 1 Samuel 30:2 גָּד֔וֹל ga.Dol · Describes something

    and had taken captive the women and all that were therein, both small and great: they slew not any, but carried them off, and went their way.

34. 1 Samuel 30:16 הַגָּד֔וֹל ha.ga.Dol · Describes something

    And when he had brought him down, behold, they were spread abroad over all the ground, eating and drinking, and dancing, because of all the great spoil that they had taken out of the land of the Philistines, and out of the land of Judah.

35. 1 Samuel 30:19 הַגָּד֜וֹל ha.ga.Dol · Describes something

    And there was nothing lacking to them, neither small nor great, neither sons nor daughters, neither spoil, nor anything that they had taken to them: David brought back all.

American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.