Exodus 22:24
And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
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Wax
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Hebrews 1:11
They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
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4 occurrences in 4 verses.
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דּוֹנַג
dôwnag · do-nag'
4 times translated as this KJV form4 total Strong's occurrences
wax;
Strong's KJV usage: wax.
Strong's first: Psalms 22:14Strong's last: Micah 1:4
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palaióō · pal-ah-yo'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to make (passively, become) worn out, or declare obsolete
Strong's KJV usage: :--decay, make (wax) old.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 12:33Strong's last: Luke 12:33
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prokóptō · prok-op'-to
1 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to drive forward (as if by beating), i.e. (figuratively and intransitively) to advance (in amount, to grow; in time, to be well along)
Strong's KJV usage: :--increase, proceed, profit, be far spent, wax.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: 2 Timothy 3:13Strong's last: 2 Timothy 3:13
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psýchō · psoo'-kho
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to breathe (voluntarily but gently, thus differing on the one hand from G4154, which denotes properly a forcible respiration; and on the other from the base of G109, which refers properly to an inanimate breeze), i.e. (by implication, of reduction of temperature by evaporation) to chill (figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--wax cold.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 24:12Strong's last: Matthew 24:12
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And my wrath shall wax hot, and I will kill you with the sword; and your wives shall be widows, and your children fatherless.
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Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.
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And Moses besought the LORD his God, and said, LORD, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth out of the land of Egypt with great power, and with a mighty hand?
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And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on mischief.
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And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:
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And if a sojourner or stranger wax rich by thee, and thy brother that dwelleth by him wax poor, and sell himself unto the stranger or sojourner by thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family:
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And it came to pass at that time, when Eli was laid down in his place, and his eyes began to wax dim, that he could not see;
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What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
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Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
H1749
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
H1749
As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
H1749
The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
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They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
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And in that day it shall come to pass, that the glory of Jacob shall be made thin, and the fatness of his flesh shall wax lean.
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Therefore thus saith the LORD, who redeemed Abraham, concerning the house of Jacob, Jacob shall not now be ashamed, neither shall his face now wax pale.
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Behold, the Lord GOD will help me; who is he that shall condemn me? lo, they all shall wax old as a garment; the moth shall eat them up.
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Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.
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We have heard the fame thereof: our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pain, as of a woman in travail.
H1749
And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
G5594
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.
G3822
Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.
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But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;
G4298
But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived.
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They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;
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wax
WAX, noun [G., Latin ]
1. A thick, viscid, tenacious substance, collected by bees, or excreted from their bodies, and employed in the construction of their cells; usually called bees wax Its native color is yellow, but it is bleached for candles, etc.
2. A thick tenacious substance excreted in the ear.
3. A substance secreted by certain plants, forming a silvery powder on the leaves and fruit, as in the wax-palm and wax-myrtle.
4. A substance found on the hinder legs of bees, which is supposed to be their food.
5. A substance used in sealing letters; called sealing-wax, or Spanish wax This is a composition of gum-lacca and resin, colored with some pigment.
6. A thick substance used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.
WAX, verb transitive To smear or rub with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.
WAX, verb intransitive preterit tense waxed.; participle passive waxed or waxen. [G., Latin , Gr.]
1. To increase in size; to grow; to become larger; as the waxing and the waning moon.
2. To pass from one state to another; to become; as, to wax strong; to wax warm or cold; to wax feeble; to wax hot; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.
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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