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Grow With Me

גָּדֵל

gadel · growing greater

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1432 · appears 4 times in the Bible

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What it means

gadel (גָּדֵל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “growing greater”.

Growing, becoming ever greater.

How to say it

ga·del

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. Ever increasing.
  2. Huge of body.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • growing ×3
  • great ×1

Related words

Comes from

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Genesis 26:13

    The man became great and went on growing greater until he became very great.

  • 1 Samuel 2:26

    And the boy Samuel went on growing and being good both with YHWH and with men.

  • 2 Chronicles 17:12

    Jehoshaphat kept growing greater and greater, and he built in Judah citadels and store cities.

  • Ezekiel 16:26

    And you prostituted yourself with the sons of Egypt, your neighbors, great of flesh, and multiplied your prostitution to provoke me.