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  #1431 גָּדַל gadal {gaw-dal'}

 a primitive root; TWOT - 315; v

—Hebrew Word Study (Transliteration-Pronunciation Etymology & Grammar)


 1) to grow, become great or important, promote, make powerful, praise,
    magnify, do great things
    1a) (Qal)
        1a1) to grow up
        1a2) to become great
        1a3) to be magnified
    1b) (Piel)
        1b1) to cause to grow
        1b2) to make great, powerful
        1b3) to magnify
    1c) (Pual) to be brought up
    1d) (Hiphil)
        1d1) to make great
        1d2) to magnify
        1d3) to do great things
    1e) (Hithpael) to magnify oneself

—Brown-Driver-Briggs (Old Testament Hebrew-English Lexicon)

A primitive root; properly to twist (compare H1434), that is, to be (causatively make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride):—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 (Hebrew & Chaldee Dictionary of the Old Testament)

#1431.
גָּדַל
gadal (152a); a prim. root; to grow up, become great:—
NASB - advanced(1), arrogantly(1), became great(1), became greater(2), became rich(1), became tall(1), became...wealthy(1), become arrogant(4), become great(1), become rich(1), become so great(1), bigger(1), boast*(1), bring(1), brought(1), educated(1), enlarged(1), exalt(2), exalted(4), great(10), great things(5), great things he has done(1), greater(4), grew(15), grew...great(1), grow(2), grow long(1), grown(5), grown-up(1), grows(1), highly valued(2), increase(1), lifted(1), magnificent(1), magnified(15), magnify(9), make his greater(1), make the great(2), make your great(1), make great(1), makes it grow(1), more(1), promoted(1), reared(3), rearing(1), spoken*(1), vaunt(1).

—NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries

 AV - magnify 32, great 26, grow 14, nourish up 7, grow up 6,
      greater 5, misc 25; 115

advanced
Esther 10:2.

became
Genesis 26:13.

boasted
Ezekiel 35:13.

by
1 Samuel 26:24, 24.

done
1 Samuel 12:24.

estate
Ecclesiastes 1:16.

exceeded
1 Samuel 20:41. 1 Kings 10:23.

excellent
Isaiah 28:29.

great
Genesis 12:2; 19:13; 24:35; 26:13, 13; 48:19. Numbers 14:17. 2 Samuel 7:22. 1 Chronicles 29:12. Job 2:13. Psalms 18:50; 92:5; 104:1. Ecclesiastes 2:4, 9. Jeremiah 5:27. Ezekiel 16:7; 24:9; 31:4. Daniel 8:4, 8, 9, 10. Amos 8:5. Micah 5:4. Zechariah 12:11.

greater
Genesis 41:40; 48:19. 1 Kings 1:37, 47. Lamentations 4:6.

grew
Genesis 21:8, 20; 25:27. Exodus 2:10. Judges 13:24. 1 Samuel 2:21; 3:19.

grow
Numbers 6:5. Jonah 4:10.

grown
Genesis 38:11, 14. Exodus 2:11. Ruth 1:13. 2 Kings 4:18.

increased
Isaiah 9:3.

magnifical
1 Chronicles 22:5.

magnified
Genesis 19:19. Joshua 4:14. 2 Samuel 7:26. 1 Chronicles 17:24; 29:25. 2 Chronicles 1:1. Psalms 35:27; 40:16; 70:4; 138:2. Jeremiah 48:26, 42. Lamentations 1:9. Daniel 8:11. Zephaniah 2:8, 10. Malachi 1:5.

magnify
Joshua 3:7. Job 7:17; 19:5. Psalms 34:3; 35:26; 38:16; 55:12; 69:30. Isaiah 10:15; 42:21. Ezekiel 38:23. Daniel 8:25; 11:36, 37. Zechariah 12:7.

make
Genesis 12:2. 1 Kings 1:37, 47.

nourish
Isaiah 44:14.

nourished
Isaiah 1:2.

nourishing
Daniel 1:5.

passed
2 Chronicles 9:22.

promote
Esther 3:1.

promoted
Esther 5:11.

proudly
Obadiah 1:12.

things
Psalms 126:2, 3. Joel 2:20, 21.

up
Judges 11:2. 2 Samuel 12:3. 1 Kings 12:8, 10. 2 Kings 10:6. 2 Chronicles 10:8, 10. Ezra 9:6. Job 31:18. Psalms 41:9; 144:12. Isaiah 23:4; 49:21; 51:18. Hosea 9:12.