Genesis 1:22
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
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Multiply
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Hebrews 6:14
Saying, Surely blessing I will bless thee, and multiplying I will multiply thee.
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18 occurrences in 16 verses.
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רָבָה
râbâh · raw-baw'
41 times translated as this KJV form227 total Strong's occurrences
to increase (in whatever respect)
Strong's KJV usage: (bring in) abundance (× -antly), archer (by mistake for 7232), be in authority, bring up, × continue, enlarge, excel, exceeding(-ly), be full of, (be, make) great(-er, -ly, × -ness), grow up, heap, increase, be long, (be, give, have, make, use) many (a time), (any, be, give, give the, have) more (in number), (ask, be, be so, gather, over, take, yield) much (greater, more), (make to) multiply, nourish, plenty(-eous), × process (of time), sore, store, thoroughly, very.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 1:22Strong's last: Amos 4:4
Open full H7235 profile →πληθύνω
plēthýnō · play-thoo'-no
2 times translated as this KJV form13 total Strong's occurrences
to increase (transitively or intransitively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--abound, multiply.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Corinthians 9:10Strong's last: Hebrews 6:14
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rab · rab
1 times translated as this KJV form456 total Strong's occurrences
abundant (in quantity, size, age, number, rank, quality)
Strong's KJV usage: (in) abound(-undance, -ant, -antly), captain, elder, enough, exceedingly, full, great(-ly, man, one), increase, long (enough, (time)), (do, have) many(-ifold, things, a time), (ship-)master, mighty, more, (too, very) much, multiply(-tude), officer, often(-times), plenteous, populous, prince, process (of time), suffice(-lent).
Strong's first: Exodus 23:29Strong's last: Exodus 23:29
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râbab · raw-bab'
1 times translated as this KJV form17 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to cast together , i.e. increase, especially in number; to multiply by the myriad
Strong's KJV usage: increase, be many(-ifold), be more, multiply, ten thousands.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 6:1Strong's last: Genesis 6:1
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rᵉbâbâh · reb-aw-baw'
1 times translated as this KJV form16 total Strong's occurrences
abundance (in number), i.e. (specifically) a myriad (whether definite or indefinite)
Strong's KJV usage: many, million, × multiply, ten thousand.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezekiel 16:7Strong's last: Ezekiel 16:7
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And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
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And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
H7235
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
H7235
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
H7231
And it came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them,
H7235
Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
H7235
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
H7235
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
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And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
H7235
And the angel of the LORD said unto her, I will multiply thy seed exceedingly, that it shall not be numbered for multitude.
H7235
And I will make my covenant between me and thee, and will multiply thee exceedingly.
H7235
And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
H7235
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
H7235
And I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven, and will give unto thy seed all these countries; and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed;
H7235
And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham's sake.
H7235
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
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And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
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And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
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Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
H7235
And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt.
H7227
I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.
H7235
Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it for ever.
H7235
For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
H7235
And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
H7235
All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the LORD sware unto your fathers.
English meaning and historical usage.
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multiply
MUL'TIPLY, verb transitive [Latin multiplico; multus, many, and plico, to fold or double.]
1. To increase in number; to make more by natural generation or production, or by addition; as, to multiply men, horses or other animals; to multiply evils.
I will multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt. Exodus 7:3.
Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience.
2. In arithmetic, to increase any given number as many times as there are units in any other given number. Thus 7x8=56, that is, 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56.
MUL'TIPLY, verb intransitive To grow or increase in number.
Be fruitful and multiply Genesis 1:22.
When men began to multiply on the face of the earth. Genesis 6:1.
1. To increase in extent; to extend; to spread.
The word of God grew and multiplied. Acts 12:1.
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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