Greatly
שַׂגִּיאStrong’s H7690saggi (sag-gi)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Saggi is the Aramaic word usually translated “exceedingly”, “great” and “many”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“But if ye shew the dream, and the interpretation thereof, ye shall receive of me gifts and rewards and great honour: therefore shew me the dream, and the interpretation thereof.”
Meaning
- Great, muchgreat · much, many
- Exceedingly
How it's translated
- exceedingly 5
- great 3
- many 2
- plentiful 2
- much 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 12
- Ezra 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 2:12In contextFor this cause the king was angry and very furious, and commanded to destroy all the wise men of Babylon.
- Daniel 2:31In contextThou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.
- Daniel 2:48In contextThen the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.
- Daniel 4:10In contextThus were the visions of mine head in my bed; I saw, and behold a tree in the midst of the earth, and the height thereof was great.
- Daniel 4:12In contextThe leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.
- Daniel 4:21In contextWhose leaves were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all; under which the beasts of the field dwelt, and upon whose branches the fowls of the heaven had their habitation:
Aramaic dictionary
שַׂגִּיא saggi · greatly
adj 1) great, much 1a) great 1b) much, many adv 2) exceedingly
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “greatly” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GREATLY, adverb
In a great degree; much.
- “I will greatly multiply thy sorrow” Genesis 3:16
- Nobly; illustriously.
- Magnanimously; generously; bravely.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.