Word meanings
Strong's dictionary
a primitive root; properly, to twist (compare גְּדִל), i.e.; to be (causatively make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride); 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), tower.
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2 Kings 4:18 וַיִּגְדַּ֖ל vai.yig.Dal · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it
And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
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2 Kings 10:6 מְגַדְּלִ֥ים me.ga.de.Lim · An -ing word: strong action
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.
American Standard Version (1901). Public domain.

