Words the Bible translates as grow
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 9 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- gadalגָּדַלto grow up: to increase in size or to pass from childhood toward adulthood
+3 more meanings
- to become great: to grow in wealth, power, or standing until one is important
- to make great: to raise a child, promote a person, or exalt and praise God
- to magnify oneself: to boast or act arrogantly, often defiantly against God or others
- auxanōαὐξάνωto grow or increase; also, with God as the one acting, to make something grow
- pleonazōπλεονάζωto become more than there was: to increase, grow, or mount up in amount, and so to end up with more than was needed
- tsamaḥצָמַחto sprout up out of the ground, or to make something sprout: the fresh springing of new growth
- parahפָּרָהto be fruitful: to bring forth offspring or produce in abundance
- phuōφύωto grownot studied yet
- ga'ahגָּאָהto rise high: to swell, shoot up, or tower above what surrounds it
- mēkunōμηκύνωto grownot studied yet
- sugשׂוּגto grownot studied yet
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