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'Great' in the Bible

And after him was Eleazar, the son of Dodo the Ahohite, who was one of the three great fighters.

And they set themselves in the midst of that parcel, and delivered it, and slew the Philistines; and the LORD saved them by a great deliverance.

Saying, By my God, far be it from me to do this! How may I take as drink the life-blood of these men who have put their lives in danger? so he did not take it. These things did the three great men of war.

Jehoiada's son Benaiah, who was a valiant man, accomplished great things. He was from Kabzeel. He killed two men named Ariel from Moab and then he also went down into a pit and struck down a lion during a snow storm one day.

And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and slew him with his own spear.

These were the acts of Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, who had a great name among the thirty men of war.

And these were the great men of war: Asahel, the brother of Joab, Elhanan, the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,

And Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a great man among the thirty, and their chief; and Jeremiah and Jehaziel and Johanan and Jozabad the Gederathite;

And some of the Gadites, siding with David, went to his strong place in the waste land, great and strong men, trained for war, expert in the use of arms, whose faces were like the faces of lions, and they were quick-footed like roes on the mountains;

And they gave David help against the armed bands, for they were all great men of war, and captains in the army.

For at that time day by day there came to David to help him, until it was a great host, like the host of God.

Seven thousand, one hundred of the children of Simeon, great men of war;

And Zadok, a young man, great and strong in war, with twenty-two captains from his father's people.

And of the children of Ephraim, twenty thousand, eight hundred great men of war, men of great name in their families.

Moreover those who were near to them, even as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, brought food on donkeys, camels, mules and on oxen, great quantities of flour cakes, fig cakes and bunches of raisins, wine, oil, oxen and sheep. There was joy indeed in Israel.

And so great was David's fear of God that day, that he said, How may I let the ark of God come to me?

Keep in mind the great works which he has done; his wonders, and the decisions of his mouth;

And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.

From the time when I put judges over my people Israel; and I will overcome all those who are against you; and I will make you great and the head of a line of kings.

And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O LORD God.

O LORD, for thy servant's sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.

And who is like Your people Israel? God, You came to one nation on earth to redeem a people for Yourself, to make a name for Yourself through great and awesome works by driving out nations before Your people You redeemed from Egypt.

May your name be made great and honored forever: The LORD of the Heavenly Armies, the God of Israel, is God for Israel, and may the family of David your servant stand before you forever.

From Tibhath and Kun, Hadadezer's cities, David took a great deal of bronze. (Solomon used it to make the big bronze basin called "The Sea," the pillars, and other bronze items.

David confiscated the crown of their king from his head, and found that its weight was a talent in gold. A precious stone had been set in it, and it was placed on David's head. He also confiscated a great amount of war booty that had been plundered from the city,

And yet again there was war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand, and six on each foot: and he also was the son of the giant.

Then David said to God, Great has been my sin in doing this; but now, be pleased to take away the sin of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.

Three years when there will not be enough food; or three months of war, when you will go in flight before your haters, being in great danger of the sword; or three days of the sword of the Lord, disease in the land, and the angel of the Lord taking destruction through all the land of Israel. Now give thought to the answer I am to take back to him who sent me.

And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let me fall now into the hand of the LORD; for very great are his mercies: but let me not fall into the hand of man.

And David saith unto God, 'Did not I -- I say to number the people? Yea, I it is who have sinned, and done great evil: and these, the flock, what did they? O Jehovah, my God, let, I pray Thee, Thy hand be on me, and on the house of my father, and not on Thy people -- to be plagued.'

But David was not able to go before it to get directions from the Lord, so great was his fear of the sword of the angel of the Lord.

David supplied a great deal of iron to make the nails for the doors of the gateways and for the fittings, together with an immeasurable quantity of bronze,

And cedar-trees without number, for the Zidonians and the men of Tyre came with a great amount of cedar-trees for David.

David said, “My son Solomon is young and inexperienced, and the house that is to be built for the Lord must be exceedingly great and famous and glorious in all the lands. Therefore, I must make provision for it.” So David made lavish preparations for it before his death.

But the word of the LORD came to me, saying, Thou hast shed blood abundantly, and hast made great wars: thou shalt not build an house unto my name, because thou hast shed much blood upon the earth in my sight.

"You have shed a lot of blood and fought great battles. You won't be building a house for my name, since you have shed so much blood on the earth in my sight. But look! A son born to you will live comfortably, because I will give him rest from all his enemies that surround him on every side, since his name will be "Solomon" - I will give peace and quiet for Israel during his lifetime.

“Notice I have taken great pains to provide for the house of the Lord—3,775 tons of gold, 37,750 tons of silver, and bronze and iron that can’t be weighed because there is so much of it. I have also provided timber and stone, but you will need to add more to them.

And you have a great number of workmen, cutters and workers of stone and wood, and experts in every sort of work,

And the sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the first; and Eliezer had no other sons, but Rehabiah had a great number.

All these were sons of Heman, the king's seer in the words of God. And to make great his power God gave Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

And they cast lots, ward against ward, as well the small as the great, the teacher as the scholar.

The sons of Shemaiah: Othni and Rephael and Obed, Elzabad, whose brothers were great men of war, Elihu and Semachiah.

And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate.

From the descendants of Hebron, Jerijah was assigned chief of the descendants of Hebron. During the fortieth year of David's administration, a search was made by genealogical record, family by family, to find men of great ability, including those found at Jazer in Gilead.

This is the same Benaiah who was the great man of the thirty, chief of the thirty; and in his division was Ammizabad his son.

And David got together at Jerusalem all the rulers of Israel, the chiefs of the tribes and the captains of the divisions waiting on the king in turn, and the captains of thousands and the captains of hundreds and the controllers of all the goods and property of the king and his sons, with the unsexed servants and the great men of war.

And of all my sons (for the Lord has given me a great number of sons) he has made selection of Solomon to take his place on the seat of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

Furthermore David the king said unto all the congregation, Solomon my son, whom alone God hath chosen, is yet young and tender, and the work is great: for the palace is not for man, but for the LORD God.

So to the best of my ability I’ve made provision for the house of my God: gold for the gold articles, silver for the silver, bronze for the bronze, iron for the iron, and wood for the wood, as well as onyx, stones for mounting, antimony, stones of various colors, all kinds of precious stones, and a great quantity of marble.

And those who had stones of great price gave them to the store of the house of the Lord, under the care of Jehiel the Gershonite.

Then the people rejoiced, for that they offered willingly, because with perfect heart they offered willingly to the LORD: and David the king also rejoiced with great joy.

O Lord, you are great, mighty, majestic, magnificent, glorious, and sovereign over all the sky and earth! You have dominion and exalt yourself as the ruler of all.

LORD our God, all of this abundance that we have given for building a temple for your great name was provided by you and all of it belongs to you.

And give to Solomon my son a true heart, to keep your orders, your rules, and your laws, and to do all these things, and to put up this great house for which I have made ready.

And they made offerings to the Lord, and gave burned offerings to the Lord, on the day after, a thousand oxen, a thousand sheep, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and a great wealth of offerings for all Israel.

And did eat and drink before the LORD on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him unto the LORD to be the chief governor, and Zadok to be priest.

and Jehovah maketh Solomon exceedingly great before the eyes of all Israel, and putteth upon him the honour of the kingdom that hath not been on any king over Israel before him.

And he came to his end after a long life, full of days and great wealth and honour; and Solomon his son became king in his place.

And strengthen himself doth Solomon son of David over his kingdom, and Jehovah his God is with him, and maketh him exceedingly great.

And Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.

Now, Lord God, may your promise to my father David be realized, for you have made me king over a great nation as numerous as the dust of the earth.

Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people: for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?

Solomon's horses were imported from Egypt and from Kue; the king's procurement officials obtained them from Kue at great price.

Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.

And the great house [itself] he covered with cypress wood, then he overlaid it with pure gold. And he put on it palm tree [images] and [ornate] chains.

And the house was made beautiful with stones of great value, and the gold was gold of Parvaim.

And he made the great water-vessel of metal, round in form, measuring ten cubits across from edge to edge; it was five cubits high and thirty cubits round.

And he made ten washing-vessels, putting five on the right side and five on the left; such things as were used in making the burned offering were washed in them; but the great water-vessel was to be used by the priests for washing themselves.

Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.

He put the great water-vessel on the right side of the house to the east, facing south.

The great water-vessel with the twelve oxen under it.

Thus Solomon made all these vessels in great abundance: for the weight of the brass could not be found out.

Moreover concerning the stranger, which is not of thy people Israel, but is come from a far country for thy great name's sake, and thy mighty hand, and thy stretched out arm; if they come and pray in this house;

Also at the same time Solomon kept the feast seven days, and all Israel with him, a very great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt.

And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great company, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

But I didn’t believe their reports until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, I was not even told half of your great wisdom! You far exceed the report I heard.

And she gave the king an hundred and twenty talents of gold, and of spices great abundance, and precious stones: neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave king Solomon.

Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.

And in his wisdom he had his sons stationed in every walled town through all the lands of Judah and Benjamin; and he gave them a great store of food, and took wives for them.

And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the LORD in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.

And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

But Abijah became great, and had fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.

Then Asa cried out to Yahweh his God. And he said, "O Yahweh, there is none with you to help between the great and the powerless. Help us, O Yahweh our God, for we rely upon you, and in your name we have come against this multitude. O Yahweh, you [are] our God! Let no man prevail against you!"

Then Asa and the people who were with him pursued them as far as Gerar. The Cushites fell until they had no survivors, for they were crushed before Yahweh and His army. So the people of Judah carried off a great supply of loot.

Then they attacked all the cities around Gerar because the terror of the Lord was on them. They also plundered all the cities, since there was a great deal of plunder in them.

And they made an attack on the tents of the owners of the cattle, and took away great numbers of sheep and camels and went back to Jerusalem.

And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in, but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the countries.

One nation was crushed by another, and one city by another, for God caused them to be in great turmoil.

Then he gathered all Judah and Benjamin, as well as those from the tribes of Ephraim, Manasseh, and Simeon who had settled among them, for they had defected to him from Israel in great numbers when they saw that Yahweh his God was with him.

That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

And they took an oath to Yahweh with a great voice, with shouting, with trumpets, and with horns.

Did not the Cushim and the Lubim become a very great force for multitude, for chariot, and for horsemen? and in thy leaning on Jehovah He gave them into thy hand,

And Asa in the thirty and ninth year of his reign was diseased in his feet, until his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to the LORD, but to the physicians.

And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries' art: and they made a very great burning for him.

So the Lord established the kingdom in his control, and all Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had great riches and honor.

He took great pride in the ways of the Lord and again removed the high places and the Asherim from Judah.

And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.

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גּדל גּדול 
Gadowl 
Usage: 528

מרבּית 
Marbiyth 
Usage: 5

רברב 
Rabrab (Aramaic) 
Usage: 8

ἐπιποθέω 
Epipotheo 
Usage: 9

ἡλίκος 
helikos 
Usage: 2

אל 
'el 
Usage: 114

אלהים 
'elohiym 
Usage: 2600

אצּיל 
'atstsiyl 
Usage: 3

אשׁם אשׁם 
'asham 
Usage: 35

בּהן 
Bohen 
Usage: 16

בּקר 
Baqar 
Usage: 183

בּשׁת 
Bosheth 
Usage: 30

גּבר 
Gabar 
Usage: 25

גּדוּלּה גּדלּה גּדוּלה 
G@duwlah 
Usage: 12

גּדל 
Gadal 
magnify , great , grow , nourish up , grow up , greater ,
Usage: 115

גּדל 
Gadel 
Usage: 4

גּדל 
Godel 
Usage: 13

גּלל 
G@lal (Aramaic) 
Usage: 2

גּרלo 
Garol 
Usage: 0

זנה 
Zanah 
Usage: 93

חנף 
Chaneph 
Usage: 11

חרי 
Choriy 
Usage: 6

ינשׁוף ינשׁוּף 
Yanshuwph 
Usage: 3

כּבד כּבד 
Kabad 
Usage: 114

כּבד 
Kobed 
Usage: 4

כּבד 
Kabed 
Usage: 40

לבאות לבאים לביּא לביא 
Labiy' 
Usage: 14

מאד 
M@`od 
Usage: 300

מה 
Mah (Aramaic) 
Usage: 12

מטר 
Matar 
Usage: 38

מרבה 
Marbeh 
Usage: 2

נאץ 
Na'ats 
Usage: 25

נשׁא 
Nasha' 
Usage: 16

עוּל 
`uwl 
Usage: 5

עצם עצוּם 
`atsuwm 
Usage: 31

עצם 
`atsam 
Usage: 20

פּחד 
Pachad 
Usage: 49

קפּוז 
Qippowz 
Usage: 1

רב 
Rab 
Usage: 458

רב 
Rab (Aramaic) 
Usage: 15

רב 
Rob 
Usage: 153

רבה 
Rabah 
Usage: 224

רבה 
R@bah (Aramaic) 
Usage: 6

רבוּ 
R@buw (Aramaic) 
Usage: 5

שׂגּיא 
Saggiy' 
Usage: 2

שׂגּיא 
Saggiy' (Aramaic) 
Usage: 13

שׂישׂ שׂוּשׂ 
Suws 
Usage: 27

שׁלשׁ שׁלושׁ שׁלישׁo 
Shaliysh 
Usage: 20

G21
ἀγαλλιάω 
Agalliao 
Usage: 8

ἀνάθεμα 
Anathema 
Usage: 6

ἀναθεματίζω 
Anathematizo 
Usage: 4

δυνάστης 
Dunastes 
Usage: 3

ἐκθαμβέω 
Ekthambeo 
Usage: 4

ἔννυχον 
Ennuchon 
Usage: 1

ἐπιποθία 
Epipothia 
Usage: 1

Ἡρώδης 
herodes 
Usage: 43

θρόμβος 
Thrombos 
Usage: 1

λίαν 
Lian 
Usage: 14

μακράν 
Makran 
Usage: 7

μεγαλαυχέω 
megalaucheo 
Usage: 1

μεγαλεῖος 
megaleios 
Usage: 2

μεγαλύνω 
megaluno 
Usage: 7

μεγάλως 
megalos 
Usage: 1

μέγας 
megas 
great , loud ,
Usage: 167

μέγεθος 
megethos 
Usage: 1

μεγιστᾶνες 
megistanes 
Usage: 2

μέγιστος 
megistos 
Usage: 1

μειζότερος 
meizoteros 
Usage: 1

μείζων 
meizon 
Usage: 19

ὅσος 
Hosos 
Usage: 76

πάλαι 
Palai 
long ago , any while , a great while ago , old , in time past , of old
Usage: 4

πάμπολυς 
Pampolus 
Usage: 1

περισσότερον 
Perissoteron 
Usage: 4

πηλίκος 
Pelikos 
Usage: 2

πλεῖστος 
Pleistos 
Usage: 3

πλείων πλεῖον πλέον 
Pleion 
more , many , greater , further Trans , most , more part , not tr ,
Usage: 40

πολύς πολλός 
Polus 
many , much , great ,
Usage: 292

πολυτελής 
Poluteles 
Usage: 3

πολύτιμος 
Polutimos 
Usage: 1

πόῤῥω 
Porrho 
Usage: 0

πόσος 
Posos 
Usage: 9

ῥοιζηδόν 
Rhoizedon 
with a great noise
Usage: 1

σφόδρα 
Sphodra 
Usage: 10

τηλικοῦτοςτηλικαύτη 
Telikoutos 
so great , so mighty
Usage: 4

τοσοῦτος 
Tosoutos 
so much , so great , so many , so long , as large , these many , so many things
Usage: 17

ὑπέρογκος 
Huperogkos 
Usage: 2

χαρά 
Chara 
Usage: 44

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