'Great' in the Bible

From following the ewes great with young he brought him to feed Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.

For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.

For great is thy mercy toward me: and thou hast delivered my soul from the lowest hell.

O LORD, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.

For the LORD is a great God, and a great King above all gods.

For the LORD is great, and greatly to be praised: he is to be feared above all gods.

The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people.

Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy.

For as the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.

Bless the LORD, O my soul. O LORD my God, thou art very great; thou art clothed with honour and majesty.

So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.

They forgat God their saviour, which had done great things in Egypt;

They that go down to the sea in ships, that do business in great waters;

For thy mercy is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds.

The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.

He will bless them that fear the LORD, both small and great.

For his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth for ever. Praise ye the LORD.

Great are thy tender mercies, O LORD: quicken me according to thy judgments.

I rejoice at thy word, as one that findeth great spoil.

Great peace have they which love thy law: and nothing shall offend them.

Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing: then said they among the heathen, The LORD hath done great things for them.

The LORD hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.

{A Song of degrees of David.} LORD, my heart is not haughty, nor mine eyes lofty: neither do I exercise myself in great matters, or in things too high for me.

For I know that the LORD is great, and that our Lord is above all gods.

Who smote great nations, and slew mighty kings;

To him who alone doeth great wonders: for his mercy endureth for ever.

To him that made great lights: for his mercy endureth for ever:

To him which smote great kings: for his mercy endureth for ever:

Yea, they shall sing in the ways of the LORD: for great is the glory of the LORD.

How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

Send thine hand from above; rid me, and deliver me out of great waters, from the hand of strange children;

Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised; and his greatness is unsearchable.

They shall abundantly utter the memory of thy great goodness, and shall sing of thy righteousness.

The LORD is gracious, and full of compassion; slow to anger, and of great mercy.

Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.

There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.

Better is little with the fear of the LORD than great treasure and trouble therewith.

Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right.

He also that is slothful in his work is brother to him that is a great waster.

A man's gift maketh room for him, and bringeth him before great men.

A man of great wrath shall suffer punishment: for if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again.

A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.

Put not forth thyself in the presence of the king, and stand not in the place of great men:

The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.

When righteous men do rejoice, there is great glory: but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden.

The prince that wanteth understanding is also a great oppressor: but he that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.

I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards:

I got me servants and maidens, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of great and small cattle above all that were in Jerusalem before me:

So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him.

This wisdom have I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me:

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for yielding pacifieth great offences.

Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.

As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

And the mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself: therefore forgive them not.

In mine ears said the LORD of hosts, Of a truth many houses shall be desolate, even great and fair, without inhabitant.

And the LORD have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

Moreover the LORD said unto me, Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen concerning Mahershalalhashbaz.

The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion: for great is the Holy One of Israel in the midst of thee.

The noise of a multitude in the mountains, like as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together: the LORD of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.

But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.

And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the LORD of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the LORD because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.

And by great waters the seed of Sihor, the harvest of the river, is her revenue; and she is a mart of nations.

In that day the LORD with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.

And it shall come to pass in that day, that the great trumpet shall be blown, and they shall come which were ready to perish in the land of Assyria, and the outcasts in the land of Egypt, and shall worship the LORD in the holy mount at Jerusalem.

Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, rivers and streams of waters in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail: then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey.

The sword of the LORD is filled with blood, it is made fat with fatness, and with the blood of lambs and goats, with the fat of the kidneys of rams: for the LORD hath a sacrifice in Bozrah, and a great slaughter in the land of Idumea.

There shall the great owl make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shadow: there shall the vultures also be gathered, every one with her mate.

And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller's field.

And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews' language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.

Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come upon thee in their perfection for the multitude of thy sorceries, and for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

Art thou not it which hath dried the sea, the waters of the great deep; that hath made the depths of the sea a way for the ransomed to pass over?

Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

For a small moment have I forsaken thee; but with great mercies will I gather thee.

And all thy children shall be taught of the LORD; and great shall be the peace of thy children.

I will mention the lovingkindnesses of the LORD, and the praises of the LORD, according to all that the LORD hath bestowed on us, and the great goodness toward the house of Israel, which he hath bestowed on them according to his mercies, and according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses.

Set up the standard toward Zion: retire, stay not: for I will bring evil from the north, and a great destruction.

I will get me unto the great men, and will speak unto them; for they have known the way of the LORD, and the judgment of their God: but these have altogether broken the yoke, and burst the bonds.

As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

O ye children of Benjamin, gather yourselves to flee out of the midst of Jerusalem, and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Bethhaccerem: for evil appeareth out of the north, and great destruction.

Thus saith the LORD, Behold, a people cometh from the north country, and a great nation shall be raised from the sides of the earth.

Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O LORD; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.

Behold, the noise of the bruit is come, and a great commotion out of the north country, to make the cities of Judah desolate, and a den of dragons.

The LORD called thy name, A green olive tree, fair, and of goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he hath kindled fire upon it, and the branches of it are broken.

Thus saith the LORD, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.

Both the great and the small shall die in this land: they shall not be buried, neither shall men lament for them, nor cut themselves, nor make themselves bald for them:

And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the LORD pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?

Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me.