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# שַׂגִּיא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7689

**great** — 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

great [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7689/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׂגִּיא: adj. great [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7689/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. great;—of God, abs. אֵל שַׂגִּיא Jb 36:26; cstr. שַׂגִּיא־כֹחַ 37:23.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 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: \[is\] exalted (1); exalted (1).

## In the verses

[Job 36:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.36.26/#tree)

הֶן־אֵ֣ל שַׂ֭גִּיא וְלֹ֣א נֵדָ֑ע מִסְפַּ֖ר שָׁנָ֣יו וְלֹא־חֵֽקֶר׃

*Word for word:* there! God \[is\].exalted and not we.know.\[him\] the.number his.years his and not searching

*JPS 1917:* Behold, God is great, beyond our knowledge; the number of His years is unsearchable.

[Job 37:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.37.23/#tree)

שַׁדַּ֣י לֹֽא־מְ֭צָאנֻהוּ שַׂגִּיא־כֹ֑חַ וּמִשְׁפָּ֥ט וְרֹב־צְ֝דָקָ֗ה לֹ֣א יְעַנֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].Almighty not we have.found.him exalted of.power and justice and greatness of.righteousness not he.violates

*JPS 1917:* The Almighty, whom we cannot find out, is excellent in power, yet to judgment and plenteous justice He doeth no violence.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7689.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7689/): 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).