how to say “greatness” in Hebrew
גְּדֻלָּה
If you’ve done some Jewish prayer, you’re almost certainly familiar with today’s word.
Big or great is גָּדוֹל (gah-DOHL), when used in the masculine. Greatness is גדולה (ge-doo-LAH).
In past generations, before Hebrew was revived as a spoken language as well as standardized, the word גַּדְלוּת (gahd-LOOT) was used to mean greatness, more so than the Biblical גדולה. The word גדלות today can still be heard uttered in the halls the yeshiva world and in Modern Hebrew in the term for megalomania – שִׁגָּעוֹן גַּדְלוּת (shee-gah-OHN gahd-LOOT).
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