Genesis 2:9
And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
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And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Read in context →But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
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tsâmach · tsaw-makh'
to sprout (transitive or intransitive, literal or figurative)
Strong's KJV usage: bear, bring forth, (cause to, make to) bud (forth), (cause to, make to) grow (again, up), (cause to) spring (forth, up).
Strong's first: Genesis 2:9Strong's last: Psalms 147:8
Open full H6779 profile →auxánō · owx-an'-o
to grow ("wax"), i.e. enlarge (literal or figurative, active or passive)
Strong's KJV usage: :--grow (up), (give the) increase.
Strong's first: Matthew 6:28Strong's last: 2 Peter 3:18
Open full G837 profile →gínomai · ghin'-om-ahee
to cause to be ("gen"-erate), i.e. (reflexively) to become (come into being), used with great latitude (literal, figurative, intensive, etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: :--arise, be assembled, be(-come, -fall, -have self), be brought (to pass), (be) come (to pass), continue, be divided, draw, be ended, fall, be finished, follow, be found, be fulfilled, + God forbid, grow, happen, have, be kept, be made, be married, be ordained to be, partake, pass, be performed, be published, require, seem, be showed, X soon as it was, sound, be taken, be turned, use, wax, will, would, be wrought.
Strong's first: Matthew 21:19Strong's last: Acts 5:24
Open full G1096 profile →gâdal · gaw-dal'
to be (causatively make) large (in various senses, as in body, mind, estate or honor, also in pride)
Strong's KJV usage: advance, boast, bring up, exceed, excellent, be(-come, do, give, make, wax), great(-er, come to... estate, things), grow(up), increase, lift up, magnify(-ifical), be much set by, nourish (up), pass, promote, proudly (spoken), tower.
Strong's first: Numbers 6:5Strong's last: Jonah 4:10
Open full H1431 profile →çâphîyach · saw-fee'-akh
something (spontaneously) falling off, i.e. a self-sown crop; figuratively, a freshet
Strong's KJV usage: (such) things as (which) grow (of themselves), which groweth of its own accord (itself).
Strong's first: 2 Kings 19:29Strong's last: Job 14:19
Open full H5599 profile →pârach · paw-rakh'
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: Hosea 14:5Strong's last: Hosea 14:7
Open full H6524 profile →sâgâh · saw-gaw'
to enlarge (especially upward, also figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: grow (up), increase.
Strong's first: Job 8:11Strong's last: Psalms 92:12
Open full H7685 profile →mēkýnō · may-koo'-no
to lengthen, i.e. (middle voice) to enlarge
Strong's KJV usage: :--grow up.
Strong's first: Mark 4:27Strong's last: Mark 4:27
Open full G3373 profile →synauxánō · soon-owx-an'-o
to increase (grow up) together
Strong's KJV usage: :--grow together.
Strong's first: Matthew 13:30Strong's last: Matthew 13:30
Open full G4885 profile →dâgâh · daw-gaw'
to spawn, i.e. become numerous
Strong's KJV usage: grow.
Strong's first: Genesis 48:16Strong's last: Genesis 48:16
Open full H1711 profile →yâlak · yaw-lak'
to walk (literally or figuratively); causatively, to carry (in various senses)
Strong's KJV usage: × again, away, bear, bring, carry (away), come (away), depart, flow, follow(-ing), get (away, hence, him), (cause to, made) go (away, -ing, -ne, one's way, out), grow, lead (forth), let down, march, prosper, pursue, cause to run, spread, take away (-journey), vanish, (cause to) walk(-ing), wax, × be weak.
Strong's first: Jeremiah 12:2Strong's last: Jeremiah 12:2
Open full H3212 profile →yâtsâʼ · yaw-tsaw'
to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
Strong's KJV usage: × after, appear, × assuredly, bear out, × begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come (abroad, out, thereat, without), be condemned, depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact, fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence, out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out), going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out, lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, × scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring out, stand out, × still, × surely, take forth (out), at any time, × to (and fro), utter.
Strong's first: Job 31:40Strong's last: Job 31:40
Open full H3318 profile →ʻâlâh · aw-law'
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
Strong's KJV usage: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, × mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 47:12Strong's last: Ezekiel 47:12
Open full H5927 profile →pûwsh · poosh
to spread; figuratively, act proudly
Strong's KJV usage: grow up, be grown fat, spread selves, be scattered.
Strong's first: Malachi 4:2Strong's last: Malachi 4:2
Open full H6335 profile →pârâh · paw-raw'
to bear fruit (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: bear, bring forth (fruit), (be, cause to be, make) fruitful, grow, increase.
Strong's first: Isaiah 11:1Strong's last: Isaiah 11:1
Open full H6509 profile →sᵉgâʼ · seg-aw'
to increase
Strong's KJV usage: grow, be multiplied.
Strong's first: Ezra 4:22Strong's last: Ezra 4:22
Open full H7680 profile →sûwg · soog
to hedge in
Strong's KJV usage: make to grow.
Strong's first: Isaiah 17:11Strong's last: Isaiah 17:11
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Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.
And by the river upon the bank thereof, on this side and on that side, shall grow all trees for meat, whose leaf shall not fade, neither shall the fruit thereof be consumed: it shall bring forth new fruit according to his months, because their waters they issued out of the sanctuary: and the fruit thereof shall be for meat, and the leaf thereof for medicine.
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GROW, verb intransitive preterit tense grew; participle passive grown. [Latin cresco.]
1. To enlarge in bulk or stature, by a natural, imperceptible addition of matter, through ducts and secreting organs, as animal and vegetable bodies; to vegetate as plants, or to be augmented by natural process, as animals. Thus, a plant grows from a seed to a shrub or tree, and a human being grows from a fetus to a man.
He causeth the grass to grow for cattle. Psalms 104:14.
2. To be produced by vegetation; as, wheat grows in most parts of the world; rice grows only in warm climates.
3. To increase; to be augmented; to wax; as, a body grows larger by inflation or distension; intemperance is a growing evil.
4. To advance; to improve; to make progress; as, to grow in grace, in knowledge, in piety. The young man is growing in reputation.
5. To advance; to extend. His reputation is growing.
6. To come by degrees; to become; to reach any state; as, he grows more skillful, or more prudent. Let not vice grow to a habit, or into a habit.
7. To come forward; to advance. [Not much used.]
Winter began to grow fast on.
8. To be changed from one state to another; to become; as, to grow pale; to grow poor; to grow rich.
9. To proceed, as from a cause or reason. Lax morals may grow from errors in opinion.
10. To accrue; to come.
Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings. Ezra 4:22.
11. To swell; to increase; as, the wind grew to a tempest.
To grow out of, to issue from; as plants from the soil, or as a branch from the main stem.
These wars have grown out of commercial considerations.
To grow up, to arrive at manhood, or to advance to full stature or maturity.
To grow up,
To grow together, To close and adhere; to become united by growth; as flesh or the bark of a tree severed.
GROW, signifies properly to shoot out, to enlarge; but it is often used to denote a passing from one state to another, and from greater to less.
Marriages grow less frequent.
[To grow less, is an abuse of this word; the phrase should be to become less.]
GROW, verb transitive To produce; to raise; as, a farmer grows large quantities of wheat. [This is a modern abusive use of grow but prevalent in Great Britain, and the British use begins to be imitated in America. Until within a few years, we never heard grow used as a transitive verb in New England, and the ear revolts at the practice.]
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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