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# שָׂגָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7679

**grow** — used 2 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

grow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7679/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂגָא: vb. grow, grow great [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7679/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. grow, grow great (√ only in Job; Aramaism; cf. Aramaic סְגִי, סְגָא, ܣܓܳܐ, all increase, grow great; Old Aramaic Biblical Aramaic Palm. שג(י)א adj. much);— Impf. 3 ms. metapl. יִשְׂגֶּא Jb 8:11 (of plant; metapl. form Ges§ 75 oo; \> van d. H. יִשְׂגֶּה). make great, pt. מַשְׂגִּיא לַגּוֹיִם Jb 12:23 he maketh the nations great (v. ל 3 b). magnify, laud, 2 ms. תַּשְׂגִּיא פעלו Jb 36:24 that thou magnify his work.—Vid. שׂגה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[he is\] making great (1); you will magnify (1).

## In the verses

[Job 36:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.24/#tree)

זְ֭כֹר כִּֽי־תַשְׂגִּ֣יא פָעֳל֑וֹ אֲשֶׁ֖ר שֹׁרְר֣וּ אֲנָשִֽׁים׃

*Word for word:* remember (dm).that you.will.magnify work his which they.have.sung people

*JPS 1917:* Remember that thou magnify His work, whereof men have sung.

[Job 12:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.12.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.12.23/#tree)

מַשְׂגִּ֣יא לַ֭גּוֹיִם וַֽיְאַבְּדֵ֑ם שֹׁטֵ֥חַ לַ֝גּוֹיִ֗ם וַיַּנְחֵֽם׃

*Word for word:* \[he.is\].making.great (to) the nations and he destroyed.them \[he.is\].spreading.out (to) the nations and he led.them

*JPS 1917:* He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them; He enlargeth the nations, and leadeth them away.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7679.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7679/): 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).