marbit (greatness)

Meaning

Increase, great number, multitude, greatnessincrease · great number (of people) · greatness (of wisdom)

How it's translated

and for profit 1
increase of 1
greater part their 1
greatness of 1
greater part of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

2 Chronicles 2
Leviticus 1
1 Samuel 1
1 Chronicles 1

4 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

1 Samuel 2:33And the man of thine, whom I shall not cut off from mine altar, shall be to consume thine eyes, and to grieve thine heart: and all the increase of thine house shall die in the flower of their age.
1 Chronicles 12:29And of the children of Benjamin, the kindred of Saul, three thousand: for hitherto the greatest part of them had kept the ward of the house of Saul.
2 Chronicles 9:6Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.
2 Chronicles 30:18For a multitude of the people, even many of Ephraim, and Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet did they eat the passover otherwise than it was written. But Hezekiah prayed for them, saying, The good LORD pardon every one

Hebrew dictionary

מַרְבִּית marbit · greatness

1) increase, great number, multitude, greatness 1a) increase 1a1) of family 1a2) increment, interest, usury 1b) great number (of people) 1c) greatness (of wisdom)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “greatness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

GREATNESS, noun

Largeness of bulk, dimensions, number or quantity; as the greatness of a mountain, of an edifice, of a multitude, or of a sum of money. With reference to solid bodies, however, we more generally use bulk, size, extent or magnitude than greatness; as the bulk or size of the body; the extent of the ocean; the magnitude of the sun or of the earth.

Large amount; extent; as the greatness of a reward.
High degree; as the greatness of virtue or vice.
High rank or place; elevation; dignity; distinction; eminence; power; command.
Swelling pride; affected state.

All definitions

Magnanimity; elevation of sentiment; nobleness; as greatness of mind.
Strength or extent of intellectual faculties; as the greatness of genius.
Large extent or variety; as the greatness of a man's acquisitions.
Grandeur; pomp; magnificence.
Force; intensity; as the greatness of sound, of passion, heat, etc.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.