שְׂגָא
sᵉgâʼ · H7680 · Aramaic · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to grow, to be multiplied
Process by which an event increases in intensity
ExamplesEzra 4:22 “And beware of being negligent in carrying out this matter; why should there be great damage, to the detriment of the kings?”
Daniel 4:1 Nebuchadnezzar the king to all the peoples, nations, and populations of all languages who live in all the earth: “May your peace be great!
Daniel 6:25 Then Darius the king wrote to all the peoples, nations, and populations of all languages who were living in all the land: “May your peace be great!
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- שְׁלָםpeace 2
- חֲבַלdamage 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- לto/for+ מָהhow great 1
- לto/for+ נְזַקhave damage 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- πληθύνω plēthýnō · G4129 · to grow, to increase greatly, to multiply
- Greek πληθύνω directly translates the Aramaic verb שְׂגָא in contexts of numerical increase or multiplication, representing the standard LXX rendering of this growth/multiplication concept.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Great002001002012
- Ezra 4:22 recounts that “beware of being negligent in carrying out this matter; why should there be great damage.”
- Praise002004001009009
- This Praise code is inherited from the shared listing with שָׂגָא (sâgâʼ, H7679) (the semantically parallel Hebrew verb for increasing or magnifying); it does not independently apply to this word's own attested growing great or being multiplied sense.
- Intense002001003011
- Daniel 4:1 recounts that “Nebuchadnezzar the king to all the peoples, nations, and populations of all languages... May your peace be great!”
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7680. sega [שְׂגָא] verb grow great (׳ס ᵑ7, Syriac ; see Biblical Hebrew שׂגא (Aramaism…
[שְׂגָא] verb grow great (׳ס ᵑ7, Syriac ; see Biblical Hebrew שׂגא (Aramaism in Job); —
Pe`al Imperfect3masculine singular, יִשְׂגֵּא, of injury Ezr 4:22; ׳שְׁלָֽמְכוֺןיִשְׂ Daniel 3:31; Dan 6:26.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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