Word

שַׂגִּיא

saggîyʼ · H7689 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. exalted, great

    State in which a deity or object is considered imposing because of certain characteristics and features

    Examples

    Job 36:26 “Behold, God is exalted, and we do not know Him; The number of His years is unsearchable.

    Job 37:23 “The Almighty—we cannot find Him; He is exalted in power And He will not violate justice and abundant righteousness.

How it’s used In 1 role

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Near synonyms 1 word
עָצוּם ʻâtsûwm · H6099 · numerous
Both lexemes genuinely occupy overlapping semantic space: עָצוּם (ʻâtsûwm, H6099) ("great, mighty, strong") and שַׂגִּיא (saggîyʼ, H7689) ("excellent, great") are both gradable intensity/magnitude adjectives that could substitute for one another in contexts describing greatness or strength. This is a legitimate near-synonym pairing.
Semantic domains 3 entries
Quantity002001001046
Job 36:26 declares "the number of His years is unsearchable," attesting the vast, immeasurable quantity this word denotes.
Great002001002012
Job 37:23 says the Almighty "is exalted in power," directly attesting the greatness this word denotes.
Intense002001003011
Job 37:23's "abundant righteousness" attests the intense, superlative degree this word can convey.
Word family 4 words
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7689. saggi שַׂגִּיא adjective great; — of God, absolute שַׂגִּיא אֵל Job 36:20;…
H7689. saggi
שַׂגִּיא adjective great; — of God, absolute שַׂגִּיא אֵל Job 36:20; construct שַׂגִּיאכֹֿח Job 37:24.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

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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