גדליה

From גָּדַל (gadál, “to be great”) +‎ יָהּ (Yáh, “Yah, God”), thus meaning "God is great".

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ɡe.dal.ˈja/
• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ɡə.ðal.ˈjɔː/
• (Biblical Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ɡa.dal.ˈjaː/, [ɡə.ðal.ˈjaː]
• (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ɡə.dal.ˈjɔ/
• (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ɡə.ðæl.ˈjɔ/, [ɡæ.ðæl.ˈjɔː]
• (Persian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ɡe.dæl.ˈjɒ/

גְּדַלְיָה • (g'dalyá) m

1. Gedaliah ben Achikam, a governor of the Babylonian province of Yehud
2. a male given name, equivalent to English Gedaliah

• H1436 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible