Increase
Bible Usage:
- increase used 88 times.
- increased used 49 times.
- increasest used once.
- increaseth used 15 times.
- increasing used once.
- First Reference: Genesis 47:24
- Last Reference: 2 Timothy 2:16
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H2981 Used 10 times
- H3254 Used 5 times
- H4766 Used 1 time
- H4768 Used 2 times
- H5107 Used 1 time
- H6555 Used 1 time
- H7235 Used 19 times
- H7685 Used 2 times
- H7698 Used 4 times
- H8393 Used 23 times
- H8570 Used 2 times
- H8635 Used 1 time
- H8636 Used 5 times
- G4052 Used 1 time
- G4121 Used 1 time
- G4298 Used 1 time
- G4369 Used 1 time
- G837 Used 4 times
- G838 Used 2 times
INCRE'ASE, verb intransitive [Latin incresco; in and cresco, to grow.]
1. To become greater in bulk or quantity; to grow; to augment; as plants. Hence, to become more in number; to advance in value, or in any quality good or bad. Animal and vegetable bodies increase by natural growth; wealth increases by industry; heat increases, as the sun advances towards the meridian; a multitude increases by accession of numbers; knowledge increases with age and study; passion and enmity increase by irritation, and misery increases with vice.
The Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another. 1 Thessalonians 3:12.
2. To become more violent; as, the fever increases; the pain increases; cold, wind or a storm increases.
3. To become more bright or vivid; as, the light increases.
4. To swell; to rise.
The waters increased and bore up the ark. Genesis 7:17.
5. To swell; to become louder, as sound.
6. To become of more esteem and authority.
He must increase but I must decrease. John 3:30.
7. To enlarge, as the enlightened part of the moon's disk.
INCRE'ASE, verb transitive To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity or amount; as, to increase wealth or treasure; to increase a sum or value.
1. To advance in quality; to add to any quality or affection; as, to increase the strength of moral habits; to increase love, zeal or passion.
2. To extend; to lengthen; as, to increase distance.
3. To extend; to spread; as, to increase fame or renown.
4. To aggravate; as, to increase guilt or trespass.
INCRE'ASE, noun Augmentation; a growing larger; extension.
Of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be no end. Isaiah 9:7.
1. Increment; profit; interest; that which is added to the original stock.
Take thou no interest of him or increase; but fear thy God. Leviticus 25:7.
2. Produce, as of land.
Then shall the earth yield her increase Psalms 67:6.
3. Progeny; issue; offspring.
All the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age. 1 Samuel 2:33.
4. Generation.
5. The waxing of the moon; the augmentation of the luminous part of the moon, presented to the inhabitants of the earth.
Seeds, hair, nails, hedges and herbs will grow soonest, if set or cut in the increase of the moon.
6. Augmentation of strength or violence; as increase of heat, love or other passion; increase of force.
7. Augmentation of degree; as increase of happiness or misery.
INCRE'ASED, participle passive Augmented; made or grown larger.
INCRE'ASEFUL, adjective Abundant of produce.
INCRE'ASER, noun He or that which increases.
Bible Usage:
- increase used 88 times.
- increased used 49 times.
- increasest used once.
- increaseth used 15 times.
- increasing used once.
- First Reference: Genesis 47:24
- Last Reference: 2 Timothy 2:16
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
- H2981 Used 10 times
- H3254 Used 5 times
- H4766 Used 1 time
- H4768 Used 2 times
- H5107 Used 1 time
- H6555 Used 1 time
- H7235 Used 19 times
- H7685 Used 2 times
- H7698 Used 4 times
- H8393 Used 23 times
- H8570 Used 2 times
- H8635 Used 1 time
- H8636 Used 5 times
- G4052 Used 1 time
- G4121 Used 1 time
- G4298 Used 1 time
- G4369 Used 1 time
- G837 Used 4 times
- G838 Used 2 times