Lexical Summary saga: to grow, grow great Original Word: שָׂגָאTransliteration: saga Phonetic Spelling: (saw-gaw') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to grow, grow great Meaning: to grow, to enlarge, laud Strong's Concordance increase, magnify : a primitive root; to grow, i.e. (causatively) to enlarge, (figuratively) laud -- increase, magnify. Brown-Driver-Briggs H7679. saga [שָׂגָא] verb grow, grow great (√ only in Job; Aramaism; compare Aramaic סְגָא סְגִי,, , all increase, grow great; Old Aramaic, Biblical Aramaic, Palmyrene שג(י)א adjective much); — Qal Imperfect3masculine singular metaplastic יִשְׂגֶּא Job 8:11 (of plant; metaplastic from Ges§ 75oo; > van d. H. יִשְׂגֶּה). Hiph`il 1. make great, participle לַגּוֺיִם מַשְׂגִּיא Job 12:23 he maketh the nations great (see ל 3b). 2 magnify, laud, 2 masculine singular פעלו תַּשְׂגִּיא Job 36:24 that thou magnify his work; — see שׂגה. |
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