To grow great
שָׂגָאStrong’s H7679saga (sa-ga)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Saga is the Hebrew word usually translated “making great” and “magnify”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“He increaseth the nations, and destroyeth them: he enlargeth the nations, and straiteneth them again.”
Meaning
- To increase, grow, magnify, grow great(Hiphil)
How it's translated
- making great 1
- you will magnify 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 2
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Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שָׂגָא saga · to grow great
1) to increase, grow, magnify, grow great 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to make great 1a2) to magnify, laud Aramaic equivalent: se.ga (שְׂגָא "to grow great" H7680)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “magnify” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MAGNIFY, verb transitive
[Latin magnifico; magnus, great, and facio, to make.]
- To make great or greater; to increase the apparent dimensions of a body.
- To make great in representation; to extol; to exalt in description or praise.
- To extol; to exalt; to elevate; to raise in estimation.“The Lord magnified Solomon exceedingly” 1 Chronicles 29:25“He shall magnify in his heart” Daniel 8:25
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.