Words the Bible translates as increase
English uses one word here. The Bible uses 17 words, and they do not mean the same thing. Each is listed with what it actually means, most frequent first.
- prostithēmiπροστίθημιto add: to put one thing together with what is already there, so the total grows
- ravahרָבָהto make many or much: to multiply something, increase it, or supply it in great quantity
+2 more meanings
- to become many or much: to grow in number, amount, or extent
- to shoot with a bow; to be an archer
- plēthunōπληθύνωto increase in quantity: to become many or much, or to make something become many or much.
- yasaphיָסַףto add: to join more onto what is already there, and so to increase it or do it once again
- auxanōαὐξάνωto grow or increase; also, with God as the one acting, to make something grow
- paratsפָּרַץto break through: force a way through a barrier so that what was held back bursts out the other side
- perisseuōπερισσεύωto overflow: to be present beyond the measure that is needed, so that there is a surplus, growth, or plenty
- tevu'ahתְּבוּאָהthe yield that comes in from land or labor: a harvest of crops, or income and gain more broadly
- pleonazōπλεονάζωto become more than there was: to increase, grow, or mount up in amount, and so to end up with more than was needed
- parahפָּרָהto be fruitful: to bring forth offspring or produce in abundance
- ravavרָבַבto be or become many: to grow large in number or quantity, and so to be abundant or great.
- yevulיְבוּלproduce: what the ground itself hands over, the crops a land yields, and in one place the goods a household has piled up.
- prokoptōπροκόπτωto advance: to get further along a course than one was before, for better or for worse
- sagahשָׂגָהto increasenot studied yet
- huperauxanōὑπεραυξάνωto increasenot studied yet
- makhbirמַכְבִּירto increasenot studied yet
- tarbutתַּרְבּוּתincreasenot studied yet
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