שַׂגִּיא
saggîyʼ · H7690 · Aramaic · 13 occurrences
Meanings
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many
State in which objects or events are many in number or frequency
ExamplesEzra 5:11 “So they answered us as follows, saying, ‘We are the servants of the God of heaven and earth, and are rebuilding the temple that was built many years ago, which a great king of Israel built and finished.
Daniel 4:12 ‘Its foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, And in it was food for all. The animals of the field found shade under it, And the birds of the sky lived in its branches, And all living creatures fed from it.
Daniel 4:21 and whose foliage was beautiful and its fruit abundant, and in which was food for all, under which the animals of the field lived and in whose branches the birds of the sky settled—
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exalted, great
State in which a deity or object is considered imposing because of certain characteristics and features
ExamplesDaniel 2:31 “You, O king, were watching and behold, there was a single great statue; that statue, which was large and of extraordinary radiance, was standing in front of you, and its appearance was awesome.
Daniel 2:48 Then the king promoted Daniel and gave him many great gifts, and he made him ruler over the entire province of Babylon, and chief prefect over all the wise men of Babylon.
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much, greatly
State in which an event takes place with intensity
ExamplesDaniel 2:6 “But if you declare the dream and its interpretation, you will receive from me gifts and a reward and great honor; therefore declare to me the dream and its interpretation.”
Daniel 2:12 Because of this, the king became angry and extremely furious, and he gave orders to kill all the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel 4:10 ‘Now these were the visions in my mind as I lay on my bed: I was looking, and behold, there was a tree in the middle of the earth and its height was great.
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
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- אֵבfruit 2
- רוּםheight 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
- πολύς polýs · G4183 · many, a great deal of, a great number of
- Greek πολύς renders the semantic range of Aramaic שַׂגִּיא (exceeding/great/much/many) in LXX contexts, functioning as the standard Greek equivalent for expressing quantity and intensity across both singular and plural forms.
Semantic domains 3 entries
- Quantity002001001046
- Daniel 2:48 recounts that “the king promoted Daniel and gave him many great gifts.”
- Great002001002012
- Daniel 2:31 recounts that “there was a single great statue; that statue, which was large and of extraordinary radiance, was standing in front of you.”
- Intense002001003011
- Daniel 5:9 recounts that “King Belshazzar was greatly alarmed, his face grew even more pale.”
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H7690. saggi שַׂגִּרא adjective great, much — absolute ׳שׂ Dan 2:6 +, feminine plural…
שַׂגִּרא adjective great, much — absolute ׳שׂ Dan 2:6 +, feminine plural שֵׂגִּיאָן Dan 2:48; Ezr 5:11; —
1 great, of image Dan 2:31 (in vision), height of tree Dan 4:7 (id.); of honour Dan 2:6.
2 much, fruit Dan 4:9; Dan 4:18, flesh Dan 7:5; plural many, years Ezr 5:11, gifts Dan 2:48.
3 as adverb exceedingly, Dan 2:12; Dan 5:9; Dan 6:15; Dan 6:24; Dan 7:28.
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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