gedula · greatness

What it means

gedula (גְּדוּלָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “greatness”.

Also the great deeds someone does.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. How great someone is, or their great deeds.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• greatness ×10
• great things ×2

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Chronicles×4
• Esther×3
• Psalms×3

• 2 Samuel 7:21

  For the sake of your word and according to your heart you have done all this greatness, to make it known to your servant.

• 2 Samuel 7:23

  And who is like your people, like Israel, one nation on the earth, whom Elohim went to rescue for himself as a people, and to make for himself a name, and to do for you the greatness and awesome things for your land, before your people, whom you rescued for yourself from Egypt, from nations and its gods?

• 1 Chronicles 17:19

  YHWH, for the sake of your servant and according to your heart you have done all this greatness, to make known all the great things.

• 1 Chronicles 17:21

  And who is like your people Israel, one nation on the earth, whom Elohim went to rescue for himself as a people, to make for yourself a name of great things and awesome things, by driving out nations from before your people whom you rescued from Egypt?

• 1 Chronicles 29:11

  Yours, YHWH, are the greatness and the might and the beauty and the eminence and the splendor, for all that is in the heavens and on the earth is yours. Yours, YHWH, is the kingdom, and you are the one who exalts himself as head over all.

• Esther 1:4

  while he showed the riches of the glory of his kingdom and the honor of the splendor of his greatness for many days, a hundred and eighty days.

• Esther 6:3

  And the king said, “What honor and greatness has been done for Mordecai for this?” And the king’s young men who served him said, “Nothing has been done for him.”

• Esther 10:2

  And all the deeds of his authority and of his might, and the sum of the greatness of Mordecai, with which the king made him great, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

• Psalms 71:21

  You will increase my greatness, and turn again and comfort me.

• Psalms 145:3

  Great is YHWH and greatly to be praised, and his greatness is unsearchable.

• Psalms 145:6

  And of the might of your fearsome deeds they will tell, and your greatness I will recount.

And 1 more times.