שָׂגָא H7679
make great, magnify, laud; Hiphil form emphasizing causative action of making something great or praising
This Aramaic loan word appears only in Job, meaning to make great or to magnify in praise. Job 12:23 describes God as the one who 'makes nations great,' while Job 36:24 exhorts Job to 'magnify his work.' The Spanish engrandecer and French agrandir capture the causative sense well. Elihu's speech in Job 36 calls Job to recognize and extol God's mighty deeds rather than question them. This rare verb reflects Job's elevated poetic register and its engagement with wisdom vocabulary from cognate Semitic languages.
Sentidos
1. sense 1 — The Hiphil causative stem indicates active magnification: God makes nations great (Job 12:23), and humans should magnify God's work (Job 36:24). The multilingual evidence (Spanish 'El-que-engrandece-a,' French 'agrandir') emphasizes the transitive nature—someone actively makes something great, whether God enlarging nations or humanity praising divine works. The parallel contexts shift from God as subject to human obligation. 2×
AR["المُكَثِّرُ", "تُعَظِّمُ"]·ben["তুমি-মহিমা-কর", "বৃদ্ধি-করেন"]·DE["[משגיא]", "[תשגיא]"]·EN["making-great", "you-should-magnify"]·FR["agrandir"]·heb["משגיא", "תשגיא"]·HI["बड़ाई-कर", "बढ़ाने-वाला"]·ID["Yang-memperbesar", "engkau memuliakan"]·IT["making-great", "voi-should-magnify"]·jav["ngagungaken", "panjenengan-ngagungaken"]·KO["네가-높이라", "키우시는-분-은"]·PT["Engrandecendo", "magnificas"]·RU["возвеличивает", "возвеличишь"]·ES["El-que-engrandece-a", "engrandezcas"]·SW["anakuza", "uitukuze"]·TR["büyütür", "yüceltirsin"]·urd["بڑا-کرنے-والا", "تو بڑا کر"]
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Referencia BDB / Léxico
[שָׂגָא] vb. grow, grow great (√ only in Job; Aramaism; cf. Aramaic סְגִי, סְגָא, ܣܓܳܐ, all increase, grow great; Old Aramaic Biblical Aramaic Palm. שג(י)א adj. much);— Qal Impf. 3 ms. metapl. יִשְׂגֶּא Jb 8:11 (of plant; metapl. form Ges§ 75 oo; > van d. H. יִשְׂגֶּה). Hiph. 1. make great, pt. מַשְׂגִּיא לַגּוֹיִם Jb 12:23 he maketh the nations great (v. ל 3 b). 2. magnify, laud, 2 ms. תַּשְׂגִּיא פעלו Jb 36:24 that thou magnify his work.—Vid. שָׂגָה" dir="rtl" >שׂגה.