# H1431 גָּדַל

גָּדַל (gâdal), Strong’s H1431: to be (causatively make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride) KJV: advance, boast, bring up, exceed, excellent, be(-come, do…

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*gâdal* — to be (causatively make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride)

KJV: advance, boast, bring up, exceed, excellent, be(-come, do, give, make, wax)…

Occurs 113 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- גָּדַל 115 vb. grow up, become great
- Qal
- 1 grow up
- 2 become great
- 3 to be magnified
- Pi.
- 1 cause to grow
- 2 make great, powerful
- 3 magnify
- Pu. brought up
- Hiph.
- 1 make great
- 2 magnify
- 3 do great things
- Hithp. I will magnify myself

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 12:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/12?v=2) — I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
- [Genesis 19:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=13) — for we will destroy this place, because the outcry against them has grown so great before the LORD that the LORD has…
- [Genesis 19:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/19?v=19) — See now, your servant has found favor in your sight, and you have magnified your loving kindness, which you have shown…
- [Genesis 21:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=8) — The child grew and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
- [Genesis 21:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/21?v=20) — God was with the boy, and he grew. He lived in the wilderness, and as he grew up, he became an archer.
- [Genesis 24:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/24?v=35) — The LORD has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. The LORD has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold…
- [Genesis 25:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/25?v=27) — The boys grew. Esau was a skillful hunter, a man of the field. Jacob was a quiet man, living in tents.
- [Genesis 26:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/26?v=13) — The man grew great, and grew more and more until he became very great.
- [Genesis 38:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/38?v=11) — Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, “Remain a widow in your father’s house, until Shelah, my son, is grown…
- [Genesis 38:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/38?v=14) — She took off the garments of her widowhood, and covered herself with her veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gate…