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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - גָּדַל

גָּדַל

H1431

Transliteration: gâdal

Pronunciation: gaw-dal'

Definition: advance


Original: גּדל

Transliteration: gâdal

Phonetic: gaw-dal'

BDB Definition:

  1. to grow, become great or important, promote, make powerful, praise, magnify, do great things
    1. (Qal)
      1. to grow up
      2. to become great
      3. to be magnified
    2. (Piel)
      1. to cause to grow
      2. to make great, powerful
      3. to magnify
    3. (Pual) to be brought up
    4. (Hiphil)
      1. to make great
      2. to magnify
      3. to do great things
    5. (Hithpael) to magnify oneself

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT entry: 315

Part(s) of speech: Verb


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