Genesis 1:16
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
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And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.
Read in context →And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates, and at the gates twelve angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel:
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gâdôwl · gaw-dole'
great (in any sense); hence, older; also insolent
Strong's KJV usage: aloud, elder(-est), exceeding(-ly), far, (man of) great (man, matter, thing,-er,-ness), high, long, loud, mighty, more, much, noble, proud thing, × sore, (×) very.
Strong's first: Genesis 1:16Strong's last: Malachi 4:5
Open full H1419 profile →mégas · meg'-as
big (literally or figuratively, in a very wide application)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(+ fear) exceedingly, great(-est), high, large, loud, mighty, + (be) sore (afraid), strong, X to years.
Strong's first: Matthew 2:10Strong's last: Revelation 21:12
Open full G3173 profile →rab · rab
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
Strong's KJV usage: (in) abound(-undance, -ant, -antly), captain, elder, enough, exceedingly, full, great(-ly, man, one), increase, long (enough, (time)), (do, have) many(-ifold, things, a time), (ship-)master, mighty, more, (too, very) much, multiply(-tude), officer, often(-times), plenteous, populous, prince, process (of time), suffice(-lent).
Strong's first: Genesis 6:5Strong's last: Zechariah 14:13
Open full H7227 profile →polýs · pol-oos'
(singular) much (in any respect) or (plural) many; neuter (singular) as adverbial, largely; neuter (plural) as adverb or noun often, mostly, largely
Strong's KJV usage: :--abundant, + altogether, common, + far (passed, spent), (+ be of a) great (age, deal, -ly, while), long, many, much, oft(-en (-times)), plenteous, sore, straitly.
Strong's first: Matthew 2:18Strong's last: Revelation 19:6
Open full G4183 profile →gâdal · gaw-dal'
to be (causatively make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride)
Strong's KJV usage: advance, boast, bring up, exceed, excellent, be(-come, do, give, make, wax), great(-er, come to... estate, things), grow(up), increase, lift up, magnify(-ifical), be much set by, nourish (up), pass, promote, proudly (spoken), tower.
Strong's first: Genesis 12:2Strong's last: Zechariah 12:11
Open full H1431 profile →mᵉʼôd · meh-ode'
properly, vehemence, i.e. (with or without preposition) vehemently; by implication, wholly, speedily, etc. (often with other words as an intensive or superlative; especially when repeated)
Strong's KJV usage: diligently, especially, exceeding(-ly), far, fast, good, great(-ly), × louder and louder, might(-ily, -y), (so) much, quickly, (so) sore, utterly, very ( much, sore), well.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 3:5Strong's last: Zechariah 14:14
Open full H3966 profile →rab · rab
Strong's KJV usage: captain, chief, great, lord, master, stout.
Strong's first: Ezra 4:10Strong's last: Daniel 7:2
Open full H7229 profile →rôb · robe
abundance (in any respect)
Strong's KJV usage: abundance(-antly), all, × common (sort), excellent, great(-ly, -ness, number), huge, be increased, long, many, more in number, most, much, multitude, plenty(-ifully), × very (age).
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 24:24Strong's last: Ezekiel 28:5
Open full H7230 profile →kâbêd · kaw-bade'
heavy; figuratively in a good sense (numerous) or in a bad sense (severe, difficult, stupid)
Strong's KJV usage: (so) great, grievous, hard(-ened), (too) heavy(-ier), laden, much, slow, sore, thick.
Strong's first: Genesis 50:9Strong's last: Isaiah 36:2
Open full H3515 profile →râbâh · raw-baw'
to increase (in whatever respect)
Strong's KJV usage: (bring in) abundance (× -antly), archer (by mistake for 7232), be in authority, bring up, × continue, enlarge, excel, exceeding(-ly), be full of, (be, make) great(-er, -ly, × -ness), grow up, heap, increase, be long, (be, give, have, make, use) many (a time), (any, be, give, give the, have) more (in number), (ask, be, be so, gather, over, take, yield) much (greater, more), (make to) multiply, nourish, plenty(-eous), × process (of time), sore, store, thoroughly, very.
Strong's first: Genesis 15:1Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 2:7
Open full H7235 profile →rabrab · rab-rab'
huge (in size); domineering (in character)
Strong's KJV usage: (very) great (things).
Strong's first: Daniel 2:48Strong's last: Daniel 7:17
Open full H7260 profile →tosoûtos · tos-oo'-tos
apparently from G3588 and G3739) and G3778 (including its variations); so vast as this, i.e. such (in quantity, amount, number of space)
Strong's KJV usage: :--as large, so great (long, many, much), these many.
Strong's first: Matthew 8:10Strong's last: Revelation 18:17
Open full G5118 profile →hósos · hos'-os
as (much, great, long, etc.) as
Strong's KJV usage: :--all (that), as (long, many, much) (as), how great (many, much), (in-)asmuch as, so many as, that (ever), the more, those things, what (great, -soever), wheresoever, wherewithsoever, which, X while, who(-soever).
Strong's first: Mark 5:19Strong's last: Acts 9:16
Open full G3745 profile →tēlikoûtos · tay-lik-oo'-tos
such as this, i.e. (in (figurative) magnitude) so vast
Strong's KJV usage: :--so great, so mighty.
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 1:10Strong's last: James 3:4
Open full G5082 profile →hēlíkos · hay-lee'-kos
as big as, i.e. (interjectively) how much
Strong's KJV usage: :--how (what) great.
Strong's first: Colossians 2:1Strong's last: James 3:5
Open full G2245 profile →hikanós · hik-an-os'
competent (as if coming in season), i.e. ample (in amount) or fit (in character)
Strong's KJV usage: :--able, + content, enough, good, great, large, long (while), many, meet, much, security, sore, sufficient, worthy.
Strong's first: Mark 10:46Strong's last: Acts 22:6
Open full G2425 profile →kaí · kahee
and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
Strong's KJV usage: :--and, also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when, yet.
Strong's first: Revelation 15:3Strong's last: Revelation 18:1
Open full G2532 profile →ʼĕlôhîym · el-o-heem'
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
Strong's KJV usage: angels, × exceeding, God (gods) (-dess, -ly), × (very) great, judges, × mighty.
Strong's first: Genesis 30:8Strong's last: 1 Samuel 14:15
Open full H430 profile →gâbar · gaw-bar'
to be strong; by implication, to prevail, act insolently
Strong's KJV usage: exceed, confirm, be great, be mighty, prevail, put to more (strength), strengthen, be stronger, be valiant.
Strong's first: Psalms 103:11Strong's last: Psalms 117:2
Open full H1396 profile →gâdêl · gaw-dale'
large (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: great, grew.
Strong's first: 2 Chronicles 17:12Strong's last: Ezekiel 16:26
Open full H1432 profile →gᵉlâl · ghel-awl'
weight or size (as if rolled)
Strong's KJV usage: great.
Strong's first: Ezra 5:8Strong's last: Ezra 6:4
Open full H1560 profile →chŏrîy · khor-ee'
a burning (i.e. intense) anger
Strong's KJV usage: fierce, × great, heat.
Strong's first: Exodus 11:8Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 25:10
Open full H2750 profile →kâbad · kaw-bad'
to be heavy, i.e. in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable); causatively, to make weighty (in the same two senses)
Strong's KJV usage: abounding with, more grievously afflict, boast, be chargeable, × be dim, glorify, be (make) glorious (things), glory, (very) great, be grievous, harden, be (make) heavy, be heavier, lay heavily, (bring to, come to, do, get, be had in) honour (self), (be) honourable (man), lade, × more be laid, make self many, nobles, prevail, promote (to honour), be rich, be (go) sore, stop.
Strong's first: Numbers 22:17Strong's last: Numbers 24:11
Open full H3513 profile →pachad · pakh'-ad
a (sudden) alarm (properly, the object feared, by implication, the feeling)
Strong's KJV usage: dread(-ful), fear, (thing) great (fear, -ly feared), terror.
Strong's first: Psalms 14:5Strong's last: Psalms 53:5
Open full H6343 profile →saggîyʼ · sag-ghee'
large (in size, quantity or number, also adverbial)
Strong's KJV usage: exceeding, great(-ly); many, much, sore, very.
Strong's first: Daniel 2:6Strong's last: Daniel 4:10
Open full H7690 profile →theós · theh'-os
a deity, especially (with G3588) the supreme Divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; by Hebraism, very
Strong's KJV usage: :--X exceeding, God, god(-ly, -ward).
Strong's first: Revelation 16:14Strong's last: Revelation 16:14
Open full G2316 profile →makrán · mak-ran'
at a distance (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--(a-)far (off), good (great) way off.
Strong's first: Luke 15:20Strong's last: Luke 15:20
Open full G3112 profile →megalýnō · meg-al-oo'-no
to make (or declare) great, i.e. increase or (figuratively) extol
Strong's KJV usage: :--enlarge, magnify, shew great.
Strong's first: Luke 1:58Strong's last: Luke 1:58
Open full G3170 profile →megistânes · meg-is-tan'-es
grandees
Strong's KJV usage: :--great men, lords.
Strong's first: Revelation 6:15Strong's last: Revelation 6:15
Open full G3175 profile →mégistos · meg'-is-tos
greatest or very great
Strong's KJV usage: :--exceeding great.
Strong's first: 2 Peter 1:4Strong's last: 2 Peter 1:4
Open full G3176 profile →pálai · pal'-ahee
(adverbially) formerly, or (by relatively) sometime since; (elliptically as adjective) ancient
Strong's KJV usage: :--any while, a great while ago, (of) old, in time past.
Strong's first: Luke 10:13Strong's last: Luke 10:13
Open full G3819 profile →pámpolys · pam-pol-ooce
full many, i.e. immense
Strong's KJV usage: :--very great.
Strong's first: Mark 8:1Strong's last: Mark 8:1
Open full G3827 profile →pēlíkos · pay-lee'-kos
how much (as an indefinite), i.e. in size or (figuratively) dignity
Strong's KJV usage: :--how great (large).
Strong's first: Hebrews 7:4Strong's last: Hebrews 7:4
Open full G4080 profile →pleîstos · plice'-tos
the largest number or very large
Strong's KJV usage: :--very great, most.
Strong's first: Matthew 21:8Strong's last: Matthew 21:8
Open full G4118 profile →polýtimos · pol-oot'-ee-mos
extremely valuable
Strong's KJV usage: :--very costly, of great price.
Strong's first: Matthew 13:46Strong's last: Matthew 13:46
Open full G4186 profile →pórrhō · por'-rho
forwards, i.e. at a distance
Strong's KJV usage: :--far, a great way off.
Strong's first: Luke 14:32Strong's last: Luke 14:32
Open full G4206 profile →pósos · pos'-os
interrogative pronoun (of amount) how much (large, long or (plural) many)
Strong's KJV usage: :--how great (long, many), what.
Strong's first: Matthew 6:23Strong's last: Matthew 6:23
Open full G4214 profile →ʼêl · ale
strength; as adjective, mighty; especially the Almighty (but used also of any deity)
Strong's KJV usage: God (god), × goodly, × great, idol, might(-y one), power, strong. Compare names in '-el.'
Strong's first: Psalms 36:6Strong's last: Psalms 36:6
Open full H410 profile →ʼatstsîyl · ats-tseel'
a joint of the hand (i.e. knuckle); also (according to some) a party-wall (Ezekiel 41:8)
Strong's KJV usage: (arm) hole, great.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 41:8Strong's last: Ezekiel 41:8
Open full H679 profile →baʻal · bah'-al
a master; hence, a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense)
Strong's KJV usage: archer, babbler, bird, captain, chief man, confederate, have to do, dreamer, those to whom it is due, furious, those that are given to it, great, hairy, he that hath it, have, horseman, husband, lord, man, married, master, person, sworn, they of.
Strong's first: Proverbs 18:9Strong's last: Proverbs 18:9
Open full H1167 profile →bâqâr · baw-kawr'
a beeve or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd
Strong's KJV usage: beeve, bull ( -ock), calf, cow, great (cattle), heifer, herd, kine, ox.
Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 2:7Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 2:7
Open full H1241 profile →gârôl · gaw-role'
harsh
Strong's KJV usage: man of great (as in the margin which reads 1419).
Strong's first: Proverbs 19:19Strong's last: Proverbs 19:19
Open full H1632 profile →hâreh · haw-reh'
pregnant
Strong's KJV usage: (be, woman) with child, conceive, × great.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 20:17Strong's last: Jeremiah 20:17
Open full H2030 profile →zânâh · zaw-naw'
to commit adultery (usually of the female, and less often of simple fornication, rarely of involuntary ravishment); figuratively, to commit idolatry (the Jewish people being regarded as the spouse of Jehovah)
Strong's KJV usage: (cause to) commit fornication, × continually, × great, (be an, play the) harlot, (cause to be, play the) whore, (commit, fall to) whoredom, (cause to) go a-whoring, whorish.
Strong's first: Hosea 1:2Strong's last: Hosea 1:2
Open full H2181 profile →chad · khad
as card. one; as article single; as an ordinal, first; adverbially, at once
Strong's KJV usage: a, first, one, together.
Strong's first: Daniel 2:31Strong's last: Daniel 2:31
Open full H2298 profile →chûwl · khool
properly, to twist or whirl (in a circular or spiral manner), i.e. (specifically) to dance, to writhe in pain (especially of parturition) or fear; figuratively, to wait, to pervert
Strong's KJV usage: bear, (make to) bring forth, (make to) calve, dance, drive away, fall grievously (with pain), fear, form, great, grieve, (be) grievous, hope, look, make, be in pain, be much (sore) pained, rest, shake, shapen, (be) sorrow(-ful), stay, tarry, travail (with pain), tremble, trust, wait carefully (patiently), be wounded.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 30:16Strong's last: Ezekiel 30:16
Open full H2342 profile →kôbed · ko'-bed
weight, multitude, vehemence
Strong's KJV usage: grievousness, heavy, great number.
Strong's first: Nahum 3:3Strong's last: Nahum 3:3
Open full H3514 profile →mâṭar · maw-tawr'
rain
Strong's KJV usage: rain.
Strong's first: Job 37:6Strong's last: Job 37:6
Open full H4306 profile →marbeh · mar-beh'
properly, increasing; as noun, greatness, or (adverbially) greatly
Strong's KJV usage: great, increase.
Strong's first: Isaiah 33:23Strong's last: Isaiah 33:23
Open full H4766 profile →ʻâtsûwm · aw-tsoom'
powerful (specifically, a paw); by implication, numerous
Strong's KJV usage: feeble, great, mighty, must, strong.
Strong's first: Numbers 32:1Strong's last: Numbers 32:1
Open full H6099 profile →ʻâtsam · aw-tsam'
to bind fast, i.e. close (the eyes); intransitively, to be (causatively, make) powerful or numerous; to crunch the bones
Strong's KJV usage: break the bones, close, be great, be increased, be (wax) mighty(-ier), be more, shut, be(-come, make) strong(-er).
Strong's first: Psalms 139:17Strong's last: Psalms 139:17
Open full H6105 profile →ʻâsâh · aw-saw'
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application
Strong's KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, × certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, feast, (fight-) ing man, finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, hinder, hold (a feast), × indeed, be industrious, journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, × sacrifice, serve, set, shew, × sin, spend, × surely, take, × thoroughly, trim, × very, vex, be (warr-) ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Strong's first: 1 Samuel 26:25Strong's last: 1 Samuel 26:25
Open full H6213 profile →raʻ · rah
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
Strong's KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, displease(-ure), distress, evil((-favouredness), man, thing), exceedingly, × great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Strong's first: Hosea 10:15Strong's last: Hosea 10:15
Open full H7451 profile →saggîyʼ · sag-ghee'
(superlatively) mighty
Strong's KJV usage: excellent, great.
Strong's first: Job 36:26Strong's last: Job 36:26
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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.
Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.
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 Solomon said unto God, Thou hast shewed great mercy unto David my father, and hast made me to reign in his stead.
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?
And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods.
And the house which I build is great: for great is our God above all gods.
Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
That whosoever would not seek the LORD God of Israel should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.
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.
And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.
Now the king of Syria had commanded the captains of the chariots that were with him, saying, Fight ye not with small or great, save only with the king of Israel.
Then there came some that told Jehoshaphat, saying, There cometh a great multitude against thee from beyond the sea on this side Syria; and, behold, they be in Hazazontamar, which is Engedi.
O our God, wilt thou not judge them? for we have no might against this great company that cometh against us; neither know we what to do: but our eyes are upon thee.
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GREAT, adjective [Latin crassus.]
1. Large in bulk or dimensions; a term of comparison, denoting more magnitude or extension than something else, or beyond what is usual; as a great body; a great house; a great farm.
2. Being of extended length or breadth; as a great distance; a great lake.
3. Large in number; as a great many; a great multitude.
4. Expressing a large, extensive or unusual degree of any thing; as great fear; great love; great strength; great wealth; great power; great influence; great folly.
5. Long continued; as a great while.
6. Important; weighty; as a great argument; a great truth; a great event; a thing of no great consequence; it is no great matter.
7. Chief; principal; as the great seal of England.
8. Chief; of vast power and excellence; supreme; illustrious; as the great God; the great Creator.
9. Vast; extensive; wonderful; admirable.
GREAT are thy works. Jehovah.
10. Possessing large or strong powers of mind; as a great genius.
11. Having made extensive or unusual acquisitions of science or knowledge; as a great philosopher or botanist; a great scholar.
12. Distinguished by rank, office or power; elevated; eminent; as a great lord; the great men of the nation; the great Mogul; Alexander the great
13. Dignified in aspect, mien or manner.
Amidst the crowd she walks serenely great
14. Magnanimous; generous; of elevated sentiments; high-minded. He has a great soul.
15. Rich; sumptuous; magnificent. He disdained not to appear at great tables. A great feast or entertainment.
16. Vast; sublime; as a great conception or idea.
17. Dignified; noble.
Nothing can be great which is not right.
18. Swelling; proud; as, he was not disheartened by great looks.
19. Chief; principal; much traveled; as a great road. The ocean is called the great highway of nations.
20. Pregnant; teeming; as great with young.
21. Hard; difficult. It is no great matter to live in peace with meek people.
22. Familiar; intimate. [Vulgar.]
23. Distinguished by extraordinary events, or unusual importance. Jude 1:6.
24. Denoting a degree of consanguinity, in the ascending or descending line, as great grandfather, the father of a grandfather; great great grandfather, the father of a great grandfather, and so on indefinitely; and great grandson, great great grandson. etc.
25. Superior; preeminent; as great chamberlain; great marshal.
The sense of great is to be understood by the things it is intended to qualify. great pain or wrath is violent pain or wrath; great love is ardent love; great peace is entire peace; a great name is extensive renown; a great evil or sin, is a sin of deep malignity, etc.
GREAT, noun The whole; the gross; the lump or mass; as, a carpenter contracts to build a ship by the great
1. People of rank or distinction. The poor envy the great and the great despise the poor.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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