גָּדוֹל

ga.dol

Hebrew H1419 Adjective 524 occurrences in 495 verses

גָּדוֹל great: large

adj

1. great

a. large (in magnitude and extent)

b. in number

c. in intensity

d. loud (in sound)

e. older (in age)

f. in importance

1. important things

2. great, distinguished (of men)

3. God Himself (of God)

subst

g. great things

h. haughty things

i. greatness

Also means: ga.dol (גָּדוֹל ": old" H1419K)

§ Haggedolim = "the great one"

(CLBL) Haggedolim, the great man?, father of Zabdiel

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

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Concordance 495 verses

1 Samuel 17:25 גָּד֗וֹל

Now the men of Israel had been saying, “Do you see this man who keeps coming out to defy Israel? To the man who kills him the king will give great riches. And he will give him his daughter in marriage and exempt his father’s house from taxation in Israel.”
1 Samuel 17:28 הַגָּד֔וֹל

Now when David’s oldest brother Eliab heard him speaking to the men, his anger burned against David. “Why have you come down here?” he asked. “And with whom did you leave those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride and wickedness of heart—you have come down to see the battle!”
1 Samuel 18:17 הַגְּדוֹלָ֤ה

Then Saul said to David, “Here is my older daughter Merab. I will give her to you in marriage. Only be valiant for me and fight the LORD’s battles.” But Saul was thinking, “I need not raise my hand against him; let the hand of the Philistines be against him.”
1 Samuel 19:5 גְדוֹלָה֙

He took his life in his hands when he struck down the Philistine, and the LORD worked a great salvation for all Israel. You saw it and rejoiced, so why would you sin against innocent blood by killing David for no reason?”
1 Samuel 19:8 גְדוֹלָ֔ה

When war broke out again, David went out and fought the Philistines and struck them with such a mighty blow that they fled before him.
1 Samuel 19:22 הַגָּדוֹל֙

Finally, Saul himself left for Ramah and came to the large cistern at Secu, where he asked, “Where are Samuel and David?” “At Naioth in Ramah,” he was told.
1 Samuel 20:2 גָּד֗וֹל

“Far from it!” Jonathan replied. “You will not die. Indeed, my father does nothing, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This cannot be true!”
1 Samuel 22:15 גָדֽוֹל׃

Was that day the first time I inquired of God for him? Far be it from me! Let not the king accuse your servant or any of my father’s household, for your servant knew nothing of this whole affair—not in part or in whole.”
1 Samuel 23:5 גְדוֹלָ֑ה

Then David and his men went to Keilah, fought against the Philistines, and carried off their livestock, striking them with a mighty blow. So David saved the people of Keilah.
1 Samuel 25:2 גָּד֣וֹל

Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel. He was a very wealthy man with a thousand goats and three thousand sheep, which he was shearing in Carmel.
1 Samuel 25:36 וְגָד֖וֹל

When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.
1 Samuel 28:12 גָּד֑וֹל

But when the woman saw Samuel, she cried out in a loud voice and said to Saul, “Why have you deceived me? You are Saul!”
1 Samuel 30:2 גָּד֔וֹל

They had taken captive the women and all who were there, both young and old. They had not killed anyone, but had carried them off as they went on their way.
1 Samuel 30:16 הַגָּד֔וֹל

So he led David down, and there were the Amalekites spread out over all the land, eating, drinking, and celebrating the great amount of plunder they had taken from the land of the Philistines and the land of Judah.
1 Samuel 30:19 הַגָּד֜וֹל

Nothing was missing, young or old, son or daughter, or any of the plunder the Amalekites had taken. David brought everything back.
2 Samuel 3:38 וְגָד֗וֹל

Then the king said to his servants, “Do you not realize that a great prince has fallen today in Israel?
2 Samuel 7:9 גָּד֔וֹלהַגְּדֹלִ֖ים

I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like the greatest in the land.
2 Samuel 13:15 גְּדוֹלָ֣הגְדוֹלָ֗ה

Then Amnon hated Tamar with such intensity that his hatred was greater than the love he previously had. “Get up!” he said to her. “Be gone!”
2 Samuel 13:16 הַגְּדוֹלָה֙

“No,” she replied, “sending me away is worse than this great wrong you have already done to me!” But he refused to listen to her.
2 Samuel 13:36 גָּד֥וֹל

And as he finished speaking, the sons of the king came in, wailing loudly. Then the king and all his servants also wept very bitterly.
2 Samuel 15:23 גָּד֔וֹל

Everyone in the countryside was weeping loudly as all the people passed by. And as the king crossed the Kidron Valley, all the people also passed toward the way of the wilderness.
2 Samuel 18:7 גְדוֹלָ֛ה

There the people of Israel were defeated by David’s servants, and the slaughter was great that day—twenty thousand men.
2 Samuel 18:9 הַגְּדוֹלָ֜ה

Now Absalom was riding on his mule when he met the servants of David, and as the mule went under the thick branches of a large oak, Absalom’s head was caught fast in the tree. The mule under him kept going, so that he was suspended in midair.
2 Samuel 18:17 הַגָּד֔וֹלגָּד֣וֹל

They took Absalom, cast him into a large pit in the forest, and piled a huge mound of stones over him. Meanwhile, all the Israelites fled, each to his home.
2 Samuel 18:29 הַגָּד֜וֹל

The king asked, “Is the young man Absalom all right?” And Ahimaaz replied, “When Joab sent the king’s servant and your servant, I saw a great tumult, but I do not know what it was.”
2 Samuel 19:4 גָּד֑וֹל

But the king covered his face and cried out at the top of his voice, “O my son Absalom! O Absalom, my son, my son!”
2 Samuel 19:32 גָּד֥וֹל

Barzillai was quite old, eighty years of age, and since he was a very wealthy man, he had provided for the king while he stayed in Mahanaim.
2 Samuel 20:8 הַגְּדוֹלָה֙

And while they were at the great stone in Gibeon, Amasa joined them. Now Joab was dressed in military attire, with a dagger strapped to his belt. And as he stepped forward, he slipped the dagger from its sheath.
2 Samuel 23:10 גְדוֹלָ֖ה

but Eleazar stood his ground and struck the Philistines until his hand grew weary and stuck to his sword. The LORD brought about a great victory that day. Then the troops returned to him, but only to plunder the dead.
2 Samuel 23:12 גְדוֹלָֽה׃ס

But Shammah took his stand in the middle of the field, defended it, and struck down the Philistines. So the LORD brought about a great victory.
1 Kings 1:40 גְדוֹלָ֑ה

All the people followed him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such a great joy that the earth was split by the sound.
1 Kings 2:22 הַגָּד֣וֹל

King Solomon answered his mother, “Why do you request Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? Since he is my older brother, you might as well request the kingdom for him and for Abiathar the priest and for Joab son of Zeruiah!”
1 Kings 3:4 הַגְּדוֹלָ֑ה

Now the king went to Gibeon to sacrifice there, for it was the great high place. Solomon offered a thousand burnt offerings on the altar there.
1 Kings 3:6 גָּדוֹל֒הַגָּדוֹל֙

Solomon replied, “You have shown much loving devotion to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and uprightness of heart. And You have maintained this loving devotion by giving him a son to sit on his throne this very day.
1 Kings 4:13 גְּדֹל֔וֹת

Ben-geber in Ramoth-gilead (the villages of Jair son of Manasseh in Gilead belonged to him, as well as the region of Argob in Bashan with its sixty great cities with walls and bronze bars);
1 Kings 5:17 גְּדֹל֜וֹת

And the king commanded them to quarry large, costly stones to lay the foundation of the temple with dressed stones.
1 Kings 7:9 הַגְּדוֹלָֽה׃

All these buildings were constructed with costly stones, cut to size and trimmed with saws inside and out from the foundation to the eaves, and from the outside to the great courtyard.
1 Kings 7:10 גְּדֹל֑וֹת

The foundations were laid with large, costly stones, some ten cubits long and some eight cubits long.
1 Kings 7:12 הַגְּדוֹלָ֜ה

The great courtyard was surrounded by three rows of dressed stone and a row of trimmed cedar beams, as were the inner courtyard and portico of the house of the LORD.
1 Kings 8:42 הַגָּד֔וֹל

for they will hear of Your great name and mighty hand and outstretched arm—when he comes and prays toward this temple,
1 Kings 8:55 גָּד֖וֹל

And he stood and blessed the whole assembly of Israel in a loud voice, saying:
1 Kings 8:65 גָּד֜וֹל

So at that time Solomon and all Israel with him—a great assembly of people from Lebo-hamath to the Brook of Egypt—kept the feast before the LORD our God for seven days and seven more days—fourteen days in all.
1 Kings 10:18 גָּד֑וֹל

Additionally, the king made a great throne of ivory and overlaid it with pure gold.
1 Kings 18:27 גָּדוֹל֙

At noon Elijah began to taunt them, saying, “Shout louder, for he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or occupied, or on a journey. Perhaps he is sleeping and must be awakened!”
1 Kings 18:28 גָּד֔וֹל

So they shouted louder and cut themselves with knives and lances, as was their custom, until the blood gushed over them.
1 Kings 18:45 גָּד֑וֹל

Meanwhile, the sky grew dark with clouds and wind, and a heavy rain began to fall. So Ahab rode away and went to Jezreel.
1 Kings 19:11 גְּדוֹלָ֡ה

Then the LORD said, “Go out and stand on the mountain before the LORD. Behold, the LORD is about to pass by.” And a great and mighty wind tore into the mountains and shattered the rocks before the LORD, but the LORD was not in the wind. After the wind there was an earthquake, but the LORD was not in the earthquake.
1 Kings 20:13 הַגָּד֖וֹל

Meanwhile a prophet approached Ahab king of Israel and declared, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Do you see this entire great army? Behold, I will deliver it into your hand this very day, and you will know that I am the LORD.’”
1 Kings 20:21 גְדוֹלָֽה׃

Then the king of Israel marched out and attacked the horses and chariots, inflicting a great slaughter on the Arameans.
1 Kings 20:28 הַגָּ֤דוֹל

Then the man of God approached the king of Israel and said, “This is what the LORD says: ‘Because the Arameans think the LORD is a god of the hills and not of the valleys, I will deliver all this great army into your hand. Then you will know that I am the LORD.’”