Lexicon
שַׂגִּיא
sag.gi
H7690
A:A Hebrew

greatly

13
Occurrences
2
Books
Hebrew
Language

sag.gi marks something as notably great in scale, intensity, or extent, including strong emotion, honor, gifts, and a king.

The attested uses mark an unusually high degree or magnitude: intense anger and alarm, a large or imposing image, substantial honor or gifts, abundant flesh, and the stature of a king. The supplied forms occur as adjectives in masculine singular and feminine plural.

Senses in use

  1. Notable greatness, intensity, or extent · dominant

    The masculine singular form appears where the APB renders the king as "greatly furious" in Daniel 2:12, the image as "great" in Daniel 2:31, and Belshazzar as "greatly alarmed" in Daniel 5:9. It also occurs in clauses concerning "great honor" in Daniel 2:6 and the command to "eat much flesh" in Daniel 7:5; the feminine plural form occurs with Daniel's "many great gifts" in Daniel 2:48 and with a "great king of Israel" in Ezra 5:11.

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB variously presents the surrounding clauses with "greatly furious," "great," "great honor," "many great gifts," "greatly alarmed," and "much." These renderings show the verses' overall presentation rather than fixing a separate English equivalent in every occurrence.

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