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

1. 2 Kings 3:27 גָּד֖וֹל ga.Dol · Describes something

   Then he took his eldest son that should have reigned in his stead, and offered him for a burnt-offering upon the wall. And there was great wrath against Israel: and they departed from him, and returned to their own land.

2. 2 Kings 4:8 גְדוֹלָ֔ה ge.do.Lah · Describes something

   And it fell on a day, that Elisha passed to Shunem, where was a great woman; and she constrained him to eat bread. And so it was, that as oft as he passed by, he turned in thither to eat bread.

3. 2 Kings 4:38 הַגְּדוֹלָ֔ה ha.ge.do.Lah · Describes something

   And Elisha came again to Gilgal. And there was a dearth in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said unto his servant, Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.

4. 2 Kings 5:1 גָּד֨וֹל ga.Dol · Describes something

   Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Jehovah had given victory unto Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, but he was a leper.

5. 2 Kings 5:13 גָּד֗וֹל ga.Dol · Describes something

   And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

6. 2 Kings 6:23 גְדוֹלָ֗ה ge.do.Lah · Describes something

   And he prepared great provision for them; and when they had eaten and drunk, he sent them away, and they went to their master. And the bands of Syria came no more into the land of Israel.

7. 2 Kings 6:25 גָּדוֹל֙ ga.dOl · Describes something

   And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five pieces of silver.

8. 2 Kings 7:6 גָּד֑וֹל ga.Dol · Describes something

   For the Lord had made the host of the Syrians to hear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host: and they said one to another, Lo, the king of Israel hath hired against us the kings of the Hittites, and the kings of the Egyptians, to come upon us.

9. 2 Kings 8:4 הַגְּדֹל֖וֹת ha.ge.do.Lot · Describes something

   Now the king was talking with Gehazi the servant of the man of God, saying, Tell me, I pray thee, all the great things that Elisha hath done.

10. 2 Kings 8:13 הַגָּד֖וֹל ha.ga.Dol · Describes something

    And Hazael said, But what is thy servant, who is but a dog, that he should do this great thing? And Elisha answered, Jehovah hath showed me that thou shalt be king over Syria.

11. 2 Kings 10:6 גְּדֹלֵ֥י ge.do.Lei · Describes something

    Then he wrote a letter the second time to them, saying, If ye be on my side, and if ye will hearken unto my voice, take ye the heads of the men your master's sons, and come to me to Jezreel by to-morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy persons, were with the great men of the city, who brought them up.

12. 2 Kings 10:11 גְּדֹלָ֖יו ge.do.Lav · Describes something

    So Jehu smote all that remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men, and his familiar friends, and his priests, until he left him none remaining.

13. 2 Kings 10:19 גָּד֥וֹל ga.Dol · Describes something

    Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshippers, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtlety, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.

14. 2 Kings 12:10 הַגָּד֔וֹל ha.ga.Dol · Describes something

    And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king's scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags and counted the money that was found in the house of Jehovah.

15. 2 Kings 16:15 הַגָּד֡וֹל ha.ga.Dol · Describes something

    And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt-offering, and the evening meal-offering, and the king's burnt-offering, and his meal-offering, with the burnt-offering of all the people of the land, and their meal-offering, and their drink-offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt-offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: but the brazen altar shall be for me to inquire by.

16. 2 Kings 17:21 גְדוֹלָֽה׃ ge.do.Lah · Describes something

    For he rent Israel from the house of David; and they made Jeroboam the son of Nebat king: and Jeroboam drove Israel from following Jehovah, and made them sin a great sin.

17. 2 Kings 17:36 גָּד֛וֹל ga.Dol · Describes something

    but Jehovah, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt with great power and with an outstretched arm, him shall ye fear, and unto him shall ye bow yourselves, and to him shall ye sacrifice:

18. 2 Kings 18:19 הַגָּדוֹל֙ ha.ga.dOl · Describes something

    And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

19. 2 Kings 18:28 גָּד֖וֹל ga.Dol · Describes something

    Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear ye the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.

20. 2 Kings 18:28 הַגָּד֖וֹל ha.ga.Dol · Describes something

    Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and spake, saying, Hear ye the word of the great king, the king of Assyria.

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