Great
Bible Usage:
- great used 962 times.
- greater used 77 times.
- greatest used 21 times.
- greatly used 87 times.
- greatness used 32 times.
- First Reference: Genesis 1:16
- Last Reference: Revelation 21:12
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1167 Used 1 time
- H1396 Used 2 times
- H1419 Used 397 times
- H1420 Used 1 time
- H1431 Used 26 times
- H1432 Used 2 times
- H1560 Used 2 times
- H2030 Used 1 time
- H2750 Used 2 times
- H3515 Used 8 times
- H3966 Used 10 times
- H410 Used 1 time
- H430 Used 2 times
- H4306 Used 1 time
- H4480 Used 5 times
- H4766 Used 1 time
- H6099 Used 1 time
- H6105 Used 1 time
- H6213 Used 1 time
- H679 Used 1 time
- H7227 Used 119 times
- H7229 Used 9 times
- H7230 Used 6 times
- H7231 Used 1 time
- H7235 Used 7 times
- H7260 Used 6 times
- H7689 Used 1 time
- H7690 Used 3 times
- G2245 Used 2 times
- G2425 Used 1 time
- G3173 Used 145 times
- G3176 Used 1 time
- G3827 Used 1 time
- G4080 Used 1 time
- G4118 Used 1 time
- G4183 Used 57 times
- G4214 Used 1 time
- G5082 Used 3 times
- G5118 Used 5 times
GREAT, adjective [Latin crassus.]
1. Large in bulk or dimensions; a term of comparison, denoting more magnitude or extension than something else, or beyond what is usual; as a great body; a great house; a great farm.
2. Being of extended length or breadth; as a great distance; a great lake.
3. Large in number; as a great many; a great multitude.
4. Expressing a large, extensive or unusual degree of any thing; as great fear; great love; great strength; great wealth; great power; great influence; great folly.
5. Long continued; as a great while.
6. Important; weighty; as a great argument; a great truth; a great event; a thing of no great consequence; it is no great matter.
7. Chief; principal; as the great seal of England.
8. Chief; of vast power and excellence; supreme; illustrious; as the great God; the great Creator.
9. Vast; extensive; wonderful; admirable.
GREAT are thy works. Jehovah.
10. Possessing large or strong powers of mind; as a great genius.
11. Having made extensive or unusual acquisitions of science or knowledge; as a great philosopher or botanist; a great scholar.
12. Distinguished by rank, office or power; elevated; eminent; as a great lord; the great men of the nation; the great Mogul; Alexander the great
13. Dignified in aspect, mien or manner.
Amidst the crowd she walks serenely great
14. Magnanimous; generous; of elevated sentiments; high-minded. He has a great soul.
15. Rich; sumptuous; magnificent. He disdained not to appear at great tables. A great feast or entertainment.
16. Vast; sublime; as a great conception or idea.
17. Dignified; noble.
Nothing can be great which is not right.
18. Swelling; proud; as, he was not disheartened by great looks.
19. Chief; principal; much traveled; as a great road. The ocean is called the great highway of nations.
20. Pregnant; teeming; as great with young.
21. Hard; difficult. It is no great matter to live in peace with meek people.
22. Familiar; intimate. [Vulgar.]
23. Distinguished by extraordinary events, or unusual importance. Jude 1:6.
24. Denoting a degree of consanguinity, in the ascending or descending line, as great grandfather, the father of a grandfather; great great grandfather, the father of a great grandfather, and so on indefinitely; and great grandson, great great grandson. etc.
25. Superior; preeminent; as great chamberlain; great marshal.
The sense of great is to be understood by the things it is intended to qualify. great pain or wrath is violent pain or wrath; great love is ardent love; great peace is entire peace; a great name is extensive renown; a great evil or sin, is a sin of deep malignity, etc.
GREAT, noun The whole; the gross; the lump or mass; as, a carpenter contracts to build a ship by the great
1. People of rank or distinction. The poor envy the great and the great despise the poor.
See Mediterranean Sea
Mediterranean Sea
GREAT-BELLIED, adjective Pregnant; teeming.
GREATEN, verb transitive To enlarge.
GREAT-HEARTED, adjective High-spirited; undejected.
GREATLY, adverb In a great degree; much.
I will greatly multiply thy sorrow. Genesis 3:16.
1. Nobly; illustriously.
By a high fate, thou greatly didst expire.
2. Magnanimously; generously; bravely.
He greatly scorned to turn his back on his foe. He greatly spurned the offered boon.
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.
1. Large amount; extent; as the greatness of a reward.
2. High degree; as the greatness of virtue or vice.
3. High rank or place; elevation; dignity; distinction; eminence; power; command.
4. Swelling pride; affected state.
It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships.
5. Magnanimity; elevation of sentiment; nobleness; as greatness of mind.
Virtue is the only solid basis of greatness
6. Strength or extent of intellectual faculties; as the greatness of genius.
7. Large extent or variety; as the greatness of a man's acquisitions.
8. Grandeur; pomp; magnificence.
GREATNESS with Timon dwells in such a draught,
As brings all Brobdignag before your thought.
9. Force; intensity; as the greatness of sound, of passion, heat, etc.
Bible Usage:
- great used 962 times.
- greater used 77 times.
- greatest used 21 times.
- greatly used 87 times.
- greatness used 32 times.
- First Reference: Genesis 1:16
- Last Reference: Revelation 21:12
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H1167 Used 1 time
- H1396 Used 2 times
- H1419 Used 397 times
- H1420 Used 1 time
- H1431 Used 26 times
- H1432 Used 2 times
- H1560 Used 2 times
- H2030 Used 1 time
- H2750 Used 2 times
- H3515 Used 8 times
- H3966 Used 10 times
- H410 Used 1 time
- H430 Used 2 times
- H4306 Used 1 time
- H4480 Used 5 times
- H4766 Used 1 time
- H6099 Used 1 time
- H6105 Used 1 time
- H6213 Used 1 time
- H679 Used 1 time
- H7227 Used 119 times
- H7229 Used 9 times
- H7230 Used 6 times
- H7231 Used 1 time
- H7235 Used 7 times
- H7260 Used 6 times
- H7689 Used 1 time
- H7690 Used 3 times
- G2245 Used 2 times
- G2425 Used 1 time
- G3173 Used 145 times
- G3176 Used 1 time
- G3827 Used 1 time
- G4080 Used 1 time
- G4118 Used 1 time
- G4183 Used 57 times
- G4214 Used 1 time
- G5082 Used 3 times
- G5118 Used 5 times