Psalms 72:7
In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.
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Flourish
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Ezekiel 17:24
And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.
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פָּרַח
pârach · paw-rakh'
9 times translated as this KJV form36 total Strong's occurrences
to break forth as a bud, i.e. bloom; generally, to spread; specifically, to fly (as extending the wings); figuratively, to flourish
Strong's KJV usage: × abroad, × abundantly, blossom, break forth (out), bud, flourish, make fly, grow, spread, spring (up).
Strong's first: Psalms 72:7Strong's last: Ezekiel 17:24
Open full H6524 profile →צוּץ
tsûwts · tsoots
3 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
to twinkle, i.e. glance; by analogy, to blossom (figuratively, flourish)
Strong's KJV usage: bloom, blossom, flourish, shew self.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 72:16Strong's last: Psalms 132:18
Open full H6692 profile →נָאַץ
nâʼats · naw-ats'
1 times translated as this KJV form27 total Strong's occurrences
to scorn; or (in Ecclesiastes 12:5), by interchange for 5132, to bloom
Strong's KJV usage: abhor, (give occasion to) blaspheme, contemn, despise, flourish, × great, provoke.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ecclesiastes 12:5Strong's last: Ecclesiastes 12:5
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H6524
In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth.
H6692
There shall be an handful of corn in the earth upon the top of the mountains; the fruit thereof shall shake like Lebanon: and they of the city shall flourish like grass of the earth.
H6692
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
H6524
The righteous shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.
H6524
Those that be planted in the house of the LORD shall flourish in the courts of our God.
H6692
His enemies will I clothe with shame: but upon himself shall his crown flourish.
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flourish
FLOURISH, verb intransitive flur'ish. [Latin floresco, from floreo. The primary sense is to open, expand, enlarge, or to shoot out, as in glory, Latin ploro.]
1. To thrive; to grow luxuriantly; to increase and enlarge, as a healthy growing plant. The beech and the maple flourish best in a deep, rich and moist loam.
2. To be prosperous; to increase in wealth or honor.
Bad men as frequently prosper and flourish and that by the means of their wickedness.
When all the workers of iniquity do flourish Psalms 92:7.
3. To grow in grace and in good works; to abound in the consolations of religion.
The righteous shall flourish like the palmtree. Psalms 92:7.
4. To be in a prosperous state; to grow or be augmented. We say agriculture flourishes, commerce flourishes, manufactures flourish
5. To use florid language; to make a display of figures and lofty expressions; to be copious and flowery.
They dilate and flourish long on little incidents.
6. To make bold strokes in writing; to make large and irregular lines; as, to flourish with the pen.
7. To move or play in bold and irregular figures.
Impetuous spread the stream, and smoking, flourished o're his head.
8. In music, to play with bold and irregular notes, or without settled form; as, to flourish on an organ or violin.
9. To boast; to vaunt; to brag.
FLOURISH, verb transitive flur'ish.
1. To adorn with flowers or beautiful figures, either natural or artificial; to ornament with any thing showy.
2. To spread out; to enlarge into figures.
3. To move in bold or irregular figures; to move in circles or vibrations by way of show or triumph; to brandish; as, to flourish a sword.
4. To embellish with the flowers of diction; to adorn with rhetorical figures; to grace with ostentatious eloquence; to set off with a parade of words.
5. To adorn; to embellish.
6. To mark with a flourish or irregular stroke.
The day book and inventory book shall be flourished.
FLOURISH, noun flur'ish.
1. Beauty; showy splendor.
The flourish of his sober youth.
2. Ostentatious embellishment; ambitious copiousness or amplification; parade of words and figures; show; as a flourish of rhetoric; a flourish of wit.
He lards with flourishes his long harangue.
3. Figures formed by bold, irregular lines, or fanciful strokes of the pen or graver; as the flourishes about a great letter.
4. A brandishing; the waving of a weapon or other thing; as the flourish of a sword.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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