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DEEP KJV WORD STUDY

Swell

Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.

4exact KJV occurrences 4Old Testament 0New Testament 2books containing the word 3mapped Strong's IDs 4occurrence-specific Strong's links
FIRST OCCURRENCE

Numbers 5:21

Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The LORD make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the LORD doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;

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LAST OCCURRENCE

Deuteronomy 8:4

Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

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KJV DISTRIBUTION

Where swell appears.

This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.

ORIGINAL-LANGUAGE MAP

Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?

These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.

HebrewH6638
צָבָה

tsâbâh · tsaw-baw'

2 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences

v

to amass, i.e. grow turgid; specifically, to array an army against

Strong's KJV usage: fight swell.

Other KJV renderings

Strong's first: Numbers 5:22Strong's last: Numbers 5:27

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EVERY OCCURRENCE

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Deuteronomy 8:4
H1216

Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

WEBSTER’S 1828

English meaning and historical usage.

Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.

swell

SWELL, v.i. pret. swelled; pp. swelled. Swollen is nearly obsolete..

1. To grow larger; to dilate or extend the exterior surface or dimensions by matter added to the interior part, or by expansion of the inclosed substance. Thus the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a tumor swells; a bladder swells by inflation.2. To increase in size or extent by any addition; as, a river swells and overflows its banks.3. To rise or be driven into waves or billows. In a tempest, the ocean swells into waves mountain high.4. To be puffed up or bloated; as, to swell with pride.5. To be gloated with anger; to be exasperated. He swells with rage.6. To be inflated; to belly; as swelling sails.7. To be turgid or bombastic; as swelling words; a swelling style.8. To protuberate; to bulge out; as, a cask swells in the middle.9. To be elated; to rise into arrogance. Your equal mind yet swells not into state.

10. To grow more violent; as, a moderate passion may swell to fury.

11. To grow upon the view; to become larger.

--And monarachs to be hold the swelling scene.

12. To become larger in amount. Many little debts added, swell to a great amount.

13. To become louder; as, a sound gradually swells as it approaches.

14. To strut; to look big.

--Swelling like a turkey cock.

15. To rise in altitude; as, land swells into hills.

SWELL, v.t. To increase the size, bulk or dimensions of; to cause to rise, dilate or increase. Rains and dissolving snow swell the rivers in spring, and cause floods. Jordan is swelled by the snows of mount Libanus.

1. To aggravate; to highten. It is low ebb with the accuser, when such peccadillos are put to swell the charge.2. To raise to arrogance; as, to be swelled with pride or haughtiness.3. To enlarge. These sums swell the amount of taxes to a fearful size. These victories served to swell the fame of the commander.4. In music, to augment, as the sound of a note.

SWELL, n. Extension of bulk.

1. Increase, as sound; as the swell of a note.2. A gradual ascent or elevation of land; as an extensive plain abounding with little swells.3. A wave or billow; more generally, a succession of large waves; as, a heavy swell sets into the harbor. Swell is also used to denote the waves or fluctuation of the sea after a storm, and the waves that roll in and break upon the shore.4. In an organ, a certain number of pipes inclosed in a box, which being uncovered, produce a swell of sound.

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.

SOURCE & METHOD

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KJV English usageExact token counts, verse counts, first/last occurrence, and book distribution come from the canonical TWBC PCE KJV index.
Webster 1828Historical English dictionary material is reproduced as dictionary data, not as inspired Scripture or TWBC commentary.
Original Word / Strong'sHebrew, Aramaic, and Greek links attach by exact verse + KJV token position. No global “English word always equals Strong's ID” rule is used.

Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.