Definition

to grow ("wax"), i.e. enlarge (literal or figurative, active or passive)

Etymology

a prolonged form of a primary verb;

Where the KJV renders it

• grow (up)
• (give the) increase

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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