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# גְּדוּלָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1420

**greatness** — used 12 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

greatness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1420/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

גְּדוּלָּה: n.f. greatness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1420/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. greatness—2 S 7:21 + 3 times; גְּדֻלָּה 1 Ch 29:11; cstr. גְּדֻלַּת Est 10:2; sf. גְּדוּלָּתוֹ Est 1:4; גְּדֻלָּתוֹ ψ 145:3; גְּדֻלָּתִי ψ 71:21; גְדֻלָּו֯תְךָ ψ 145:6; pl. intens. גְּדֻלּוֹת 1 Ch 17:19, 21;—chiefly late Heb. of Psalmist ψ 71:21, Mordecai Est 6:3; 10:2, king Est 1:4; of God’s greatness, as an attribute 1 Ch 29:11 ψ 145:3, 6, or of his acts 2 S 7:21 (cf. Dr) v 23 = 1 Ch 17:19(×2), 21.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: greatness (8); greatness(es) (2); his greatness (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 71:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.71.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.71.21/#tree)

תֶּ֤רֶב ׀ גְּֽדֻלָּתִ֗י וְתִסֹּ֥ב תְּֽנַחֲמֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* may.you.increase greatness my and you.will.turn you will.comfort.me

*JPS 1917:* Thou wilt increase my greatness, and turn and comfort me.

[Psalms 145:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.145.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.145.6/#tree)

וֶעֱז֣וּז נוֹרְאֹתֶ֣יךָ יֹאמֵ֑רוּ וּגְדוּלָּתְךָ֥ אֲסַפְּרֶֽנָּה׃

*Word for word:* and the.might of your.awesome.\[deeds\] they.will.tell and greatness your I will.recount.it

*JPS 1917:* And men shall speak of the might of Thy tremendous acts; and I will tell of Thy greatness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1420.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1490/1420/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).