The word in Scripture

Great in the Bible

The word great appears 962 times in the King James Version of the Bible. Great describes the surpassing greatness of God and His works. And like every true word of Scripture, it finds its fullness in Jesus Christ.

What great means in the Bible

Great describes the surpassing greatness of God and His works.

Where the word great appears

Here are 8 of the passages where the word great appears, chosen from across the Scriptures, in the words of the King James Bible:

“Thy righteousness is like the great mountains; thy judgments are a great deep: O LORD, thou preservest man and beast.”Psalms 36:6

“So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.”Psalms 104:25

“And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.”Luke 15:20

“And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and pestilences; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.”Luke 21:11

“In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.”John 5:3

“And a great multitude followed him, because they saw his miracles which he did on them that were diseased.”John 6:2

“That I have great heaviness and continual sorrow in my heart.”Romans 9:2

“But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;”Romans 15:23