Limitless Word
αὐξάνωauxánō
GreekG83722 occurrences (KJV)

to grow ("wax"), i.e. enlarge (literal or figurative, active or passive)

KJV renders it: grow (up), (give the) increase

Where it appears

  • Matt 6:28Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,
  • Matt 13:32which indeed is smaller than all seeds. But when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in its branches.”
  • Mark 4:8Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”
  • Luke 1:80The child was growing, and becoming strong in spirit, and was in the desert until the day of his public appearance to Israel.
  • Luke 2:40The child was growing, and was becoming strong in spirit, being filled with wisdom, and the grace of God was upon him.
  • Luke 12:27Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
  • Luke 13:19It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and put in his own garden. It grew, and became a large tree, and the birds of the sky live in its branches.”
  • John 3:30He must increase, but I must decrease.
  • Acts 6:7The word of God increased and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly. A great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.
  • Acts 7:17“But as the time of the promise came close which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
  • Acts 12:24But the word of God grew and multiplied.
  • Acts 19:20So the word of the Lord was growing and becoming mighty.
  • 1 Cor 3:6I planted. Apollos watered. But God gave the increase.
  • 1 Cor 3:7So then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but God who gives the increase.
  • 2 Cor 9:10Now may he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food, supply and multiply your seed for sowing, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;
  • 2 Cor 10:15not boasting beyond proper limits in other men’s labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,
  • Eph 2:21in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
  • Eph 4:15but speaking truth in love, we may grow up in all things into him, who is the head, Christ;
  • Col 1:10that you may walk worthily of the Lord, to please him in all respects, bearing fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
  • Col 2:19and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God’s growth.
  • 1 Pet 2:2as newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the Word, that with it you may grow,
  • 2 Pet 3:18But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and forever. Amen.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.