To multiply
דָּגָהStrong’s H1711dagah (da-gah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Dagah is the Hebrew word usually translated “may they multiply”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The Angel which redeemed me from all evil, bless the lads; and let my name be named on them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac; and let them grow into a multitude in the midst of the earth.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to multiply, increase
How it's translated
- and may they multiply 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
דָּגָה dagah · to multiply
(Qal) to multiply, increase
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “multiply” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MUL'TIPLY, verb transitive
[Latin multiplico; multus, many, and plico, to fold or double.]
- To increase in number; to make more by natural generation or production, or by addition; as, to multiply men, horses or other animals; to multiply evils.“I will multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt” Exodus 7:3
- In arithmetic, to increase any given number as many times as there are units in any other given number.
All definitions and other forms of “multiply”
MUL'TIPLY, verb intransitive
To grow or increase in number.
- “Be fruitful and multiply” Genesis 1:22“When men began to multiply on the face of the earth” Genesis 6:1
- To increase in extent; to extend; to spread.“The word of God grew and multiplied” Acts 12:24
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.