μεγᾰλύνω,
future μεγαλῠνῶ [[ LXX.Gen.12.2, +others: ] LXX]aorist ἐμεγάλυνα[[LXX.Eccl.2.4, +others] LXX]:—passive, future -υνθήσομαι[[LXX.Zech.12.11, +others] LXX]: aorist -ύνθην[[LXX.Mal.1.5, +others] LXX]: perfect participle μεμεγαλυμμένος [[ 2nd c.AD: Aquila LXX.Psa.143(144).12 ] LXX+2nd c.AD+]: (μέγας):—make great or powerful, exalt, τοὺς πολεμίους [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 5.98:] Refs 5th c.BC+] —passive, μεγαλύνεσθαι ἐκτῶν συμβαινόντων gain great glory by.., [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 7.1.24, cf. NT.Phil.1.20, “POxy.” 1592.3 (3rd-4th c.AD). ] NT+5th c.BC+]
__II make great by word, extol, magnify, τὸ ὄνομά τινος [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 320; μ. τὴν ἑαυτοῦ δύναμιν παρά τινι 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.81; ἑαυτόν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Apologia Socratis” 32; μ. τὴν Λακεδαίμονα πρὸς Ἀθηναίους 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Cimon” 16; τοῦ θεοῦ τὴν δύναμιν 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 1.20: frequently in LXX ] LXX+5th c.BC+], [same places]:—middle, boast oneself, περί τινος [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 35 ] Refs 7th c.BC+]; γέννα in point of birth, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Prometheus Vinctus” 892 (Lyric poetry); οὐδὲ μεγαλύνεται ἐπὶ τῷ ἔργῳ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Hiero” 2.17, compare “Oec.” 21.4; ταῦτ᾽ ἀκούων ἐμεγαλύνετο [prev. author] “Mem.” 3.6.3. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II.2 magnify, exaggerate, [[ 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 6.28, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.173 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus, “Ir.” p.45 W., 2nd-3rd c.AD: Dio Cassius Historicus “fragment” 57.81, +others ] Refs 5th c.BC+]