גֹּ֫דֶל
go.del (H1433)
greatness
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# Godel (גֹּדֶל): Greatness in Hebrew Scripture The Hebrew word *godel* denotes "greatness" and appears thirteen times throughout the biblical text. This relatively modest frequency suggests it functions as a specialized term rather than an everyday word, reserved for contexts where magnitude or supreme qualities require emphasis. The word captures both abstract and concrete dimensions of "great"—encompassing greatness as a quality, a state of being, or a measure of scale. Based on its definition and distribution, *godel* appears designed to express significance at the highest level: the greatness of God, the greatness of nations, or the greatness of achievements. The term's limited but deliberate use in Scripture indicates that biblical authors employed it to denote exceptional cases of largeness or importance, distinguishing it from more common words for "big" or "great" that appear with greater frequency. This selectivity in usage suggests *godel* carried particular weight when scribes wished to communicate superlative magnitude or cosmic significance.
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Please pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of your loving kindness, and just as you have forgiven this people, from Egypt even until now.”
“Lord Yahweh, you have begun to show your servant your greatness, and your strong hand. For what god is there in heaven or in earth that can do works like yours, and mighty acts like yours?
and you said, “Behold, Yahweh our God has shown us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the middle of the fire. We have seen today that God does speak with man, and he lives.
I prayed to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Know this day—for I don’t speak with your children who have not known, and who have not seen the chastisement of Yahweh your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, his outstretched arm,
For I will proclaim Yahweh’s name. Ascribe greatness to our God!
Let the sighing of the prisoner come before you. According to the greatness of your power, preserve those who are sentenced to death.
Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him according to his excellent greatness!
All the people will know, including Ephraim and the inhabitants of Samaria, who say in pride and in arrogance of heart,
Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.
“Son of man, tell Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his multitude: ‘Whom are you like in your greatness?
Thus it was beautiful in its greatness, in the length of its branches; for its root was by many waters.
“ ‘To whom are you thus like in glory and in greatness among the trees of Eden? Yet you will be brought down with the trees of Eden to the lower parts of the earth. You will lie in the middle of the uncircumcised, with those who are slain by the sword. “ ‘This is Pharaoh and all his multitude,’ says the Lord Yahweh.”