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.
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Strong's first: Genesis 1:22Strong's last: Amos 4:4
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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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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.
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And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied;
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And there shall cleave nought of the cursed thing to thine hand: that the LORD may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;
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But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
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But he shall not multiply horses to himself, nor cause the people to return to Egypt, to the end that he should multiply horses: forasmuch as the LORD hath said unto you, Ye shall henceforth return no more that way.
H7235
Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
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Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.
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And it shall come to pass, that as the LORD rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the LORD will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.
H7235
And the LORD thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.
H7235
In that I command thee this day to love the LORD thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.
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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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