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Words
αὐξάνω G837
- Home gloss
- grow
- Instead of (KJV / RSV)
- be fruitful / increase
- Note
- Of plants and of people (Matt 6:28; Acts 6:7). The Masoretic version's "bear fruit" (פָּרָה) is lost with the link to the fruit of 1:11
- Rulings
- 2
Occurrences (12)
- 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, "Grow and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let the flyers multiply on the land."
- 1:28 And God blessed them, saying, "Grow and multiply, and fill the land and lord it over it; and rule the fish of the sea and the flyers of the sky and all the cattle and all the land and all the creepers creeping on the land."
- 8:17 and all the beasts, as many as are with you, and all flesh from flyers to cattle, and every creeper moving on the land, bring out with you; and grow and multiply on the land."
- 9:1 And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said to them, "Grow and multiply, and fill the land and lord it over it.
- 9:7 But you, grow and multiply, and fill the land and multiply upon the land."
- 17:6 And I will grow you very much, and I will set you for nations, and kings shall go out from you.
- 17:20 But concerning Ishmael, look, I have listened to you; and I have blessed him, and I will grow him and multiply him very much; twelve nations he shall beget, and I will give him for a great nation.
- 21:8 And the little child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great reception on the day Isaac his son was weaned.
- 21:20 And God was with the little child, and he grew, and he dwelt in the desert; now he came to be an archer.
- 25:27 Now the young men grew, and Esau was a man knowing how to chase, rustic; but Jacob was an artless man, dwelling in a house.
- 26:22 Now, having set out from there, he dug a different well, and they did not fight over it; and he named its name Broad Room, saying, "Because now the Lord has broadened for us, and has grown us on the land."
- 28:3 Now may my God bless you and grow you and multiply you, and you shall be gatherings of nations.