837. auxanó
Strong's Concordance
auxanó: to make to grow, to grow
Original Word: αὐξάνω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: auxanó
Phonetic Spelling: (owx-an'-o)
Definition: to make to grow, to grow
Usage: (a) I cause to increase, become greater (b) I increase, grow.
HELPS Word-studies

837 auksánō – properly, grow (increase); become greater in size (maturity, etc.). 837 /auksánō ("to grow") is key to authentic discipleship. Indeed, the Lord requires non-stop progress (development) in the life of faith.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
a prol. form of a prim. verb
Definition
to make to grow, to grow
NASB Translation
causes the growth (1), causing the growth (1), full grown (1), grew (1), grow (8), growing (2), grows (2), increase (2), increased (2), increasing (2), spreading (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 837: αὐξάνω

αὐξάνω, and earlier (the only form in Pindar and Sophocles (Veitch, under the word says, 'Hesiod, Mimnermus, Sophocles, Thucydides always have αὔξω or ἀύξομαι, and Pindar except ἀυξανοι from 130 (Bergk)')) αὔξω (Ephesians 2:21; Colossians 2:19); imperfect ηὔξανον; future αὐξήσω; 1 aorist ἠύξησα; (passive, present ἀυξάνομαι); 1 aorist,

1. transitive, to cause to grow, to augment: 1 Corinthians 3:6; 2 Corinthians 9:10. Passive to grow, increase, become greater: Matthew 13:32; Mark 4:8 L T Tr WH; 2 Corinthians 10:15; Colossians 1:6 (not Rec.); εἰς τήν ἐπίγνωσιν τοῦ Θεοῦ unto the knowledge of God, Colossians 1:10 (G L T Tr WH τῇ ἐπιγνώσει τοῦ Θεοῦ); εἰς σωτηρίαν (not Rec.) to the attaining of salvation, 1 Peter 2:2.

2. according to later usage (from Aristotle, an. post. 1, 13, p. 78{b}, 6, etc., down; but nowhere in the Sept. (cf. Buttmann, 54 (47); 145 (127); Winers Grammar, § 38, 1)) intransitive, to grow, increase: of plants, Matthew 6:28; Mark 4:8 Rec.; Luke 12:27 (not Tdf.; Tr marginal reading brackets αὐξάνω); Luke 13:19; of infants, Luke 1:80; Luke 2:40; of a multitude of people, Acts 7:17. of inward Christian growth: εἰς Χριστόν, in reference to (Winer's Grammar, 397 (371); yet cf. Ellicott at the passage) Christ, Ephesians 4:15; εἰς ναόν, so as to form a temple, Ephesians 2:21; ἐν χάριτι, 2 Peter 3:18; with an accusative of the substance. τήν αὔξησιν, Colossians 2:19 (cf. Winers Grammar, § 32, 2; Buttmann, § 131, 5, also Lightfoot's note at the passage); of the external increase of the gospel it is said λόγος ηὔξανε: Acts 6:7; Acts 12:24; Acts 19:20; of the growing authority of a teacher and the number of his adherents (opposed to ἐλαττοῦσθαι), John 3:30. (Compare: συναυξάνω, ὑπεραυξάνω.)

STRONGS NT 837: αὔξωαὔξω, see αὐξάνω.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
grow up, increase.

A prolonged form of a primary verb; to grow ("wax"), i.e. Enlarge (literal or figurative, active or passive) -- grow (up), (give the) increase.

Forms and Transliterations
αυξανει αυξάνει αὐξάνει αυξανειν αυξάνειν αὐξάνειν αυξάνεσθε αυξανετε αυξάνετε αὐξάνετε αυξανομενα αὐξανόμενα αυξανομενης αυξανομένης αὐξανομένης αυξανομενοι αυξανόμενοι αὐξανόμενοι αυξανομενον αὐξανόμενον αυξάνοντα αυξάνου αυξανουσιν αὐξάνουσιν αυξανώ αυξανων αυξάνων αὐξάνων αυξει αύξει αὔξει αυξηθη αυξηθή αὐξηθῇ αυξηθής αυξηθήσεται αυξηθήσονται αυξηθητε αυξηθήτε αὐξηθῆτε αυξήσαι αυξησει αὐξήσει αυξήσω αυξησωμεν αυξήσωμεν αὐξήσωμεν αύξουσαν ηυξανε ηύξανε ηὔξανε ηύξανεν ηὔξανεν ηυξήθη ηυξήθησαν ηυξημένος ηύξησε ηύξησέ ηυξησεν ηύξησεν ηὔξησεν auxanei auxánei auxanein auxánein auxanete auxánete auxanomena auxanómena auxanomenes auxanomenēs auxanoménes auxanoménēs auxanomenoi auxanómenoi auxanomenon auxanómenon auxanon auxanōn auxánon auxánōn auxanousin auxánousin auxei aúxei auxesei auxēsei auxḗsei auxesomen auxēsōmen auxḗsomen auxḗsōmen auxethe auxēthē auxethêi auxēthē̂i auxethete auxethête auxēthēte auxēthē̂te euxanen ēuxanen euxesen ēuxēsen eýxanen ēýxanen eýxesen ēýxēsen
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Matthew 6:28 V-PIA-3P
GRK: ἀγροῦ πῶς αὐξάνουσιν οὐ κοπιῶσιν
NAS: of the field grow; they do not toil
KJV: how they grow; they toil
INT: field how they grow [they do] not labor

Matthew 13:32 V-ASP-3S
GRK: ὅταν δὲ αὐξηθῇ μεῖζον τῶν
NAS: but when it is full grown, it is larger
KJV: when it is grown, it is
INT: when however it be grown greater than the

Mark 4:8 V-PPM/P-ANP
GRK: ἀναβαίνοντα καὶ αὐξανόμενα καὶ ἔφερεν
NAS: and as they grew up and increased, they yielded
KJV: and increased; and
INT: growing up and increasing and bore

Luke 1:80 V-IIA-3S
GRK: δὲ παιδίον ηὔξανεν καὶ ἐκραταιοῦτο
NAS: And the child continued to grow and to become strong
KJV: And the child grew, and waxed strong
INT: and [the] child grew and was strengthened

Luke 2:40 V-IIA-3S
GRK: δὲ παιδίον ηὔξανεν καὶ ἐκραταιοῦτο
NAS: The Child continued to grow and become strong,
KJV: And the child grew, and waxed strong
INT: and [the] child grew and became strong

Luke 12:27 V-PIA-3S
GRK: κρίνα πῶς αὐξάνει οὐ κοπιᾷ
NAS: how they grow: they neither
KJV: how they grow: they toil
INT: lilies how they grow not labor

Luke 13:19 V-AIA-3S
GRK: ἑαυτοῦ καὶ ηὔξησεν καὶ ἐγένετο
NAS: garden; and it grew and became
KJV: garden; and it grew, and waxed
INT: his and it grew and came

John 3:30 V-PNA
GRK: ἐκεῖνον δεῖ αὐξάνειν ἐμὲ δὲ
NAS: He must increase, but I must decrease.
KJV: He must increase, but I
INT: Him it behoves to increase me however

Acts 6:7 V-IIA-3S
GRK: τοῦ θεοῦ ηὔξανεν καὶ ἐπληθύνετο
NAS: of God kept on spreading; and the number
KJV: of God increased; and
INT: of God increased and was multiplied

Acts 7:17 V-AIA-3S
GRK: τῷ Ἀβραάμ ηὔξησεν ὁ λαὸς
NAS: the people increased and multiplied
KJV: the people grew and
INT: to Abraham increased the people

Acts 12:24 V-IIA-3S
GRK: τοῦ θεοῦ ηὔξανεν καὶ ἐπληθύνετο
NAS: of the Lord continued to grow and to be multiplied.
KJV: the word of God grew and multiplied.
INT: of God grew and multiplied

Acts 19:20 V-IIA-3S
GRK: ὁ λόγος ηὔξανεν καὶ ἴσχυεν
NAS: of the Lord was growing mightily
KJV: So mightily grew the word of God
INT: of the word increased and prevailed

1 Corinthians 3:6 V-IIA-3S
GRK: ὁ θεὸς ηὔξανεν
NAS: but God was causing the growth.
KJV: but God gave the increase.
INT: God gave growth

1 Corinthians 3:7 V-PPA-NMS
GRK: ἀλλ' ὁ αὐξάνων θεός
NAS: but God who causes the growth.
KJV: but God that giveth the increase.
INT: but who gives growth God

2 Corinthians 9:10 V-FIA-3S
GRK: ὑμῶν καὶ αὐξήσει τὰ γενήματα
NAS: your seed for sowing and increase the harvest
KJV: and increase the fruits
INT: of you and may he increase the fruits

2 Corinthians 10:15 V-PPM/P-GFS
GRK: δὲ ἔχοντες αὐξανομένης τῆς πίστεως
NAS: that as your faith grows, we will be, within
KJV: faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged
INT: moreover having increasing the faith

Ephesians 2:21 V-PIA-3S
GRK: οἰκοδομὴ συναρμολογουμένη αὔξει εἰς ναὸν
NAS: being fitted together, is growing into a holy
KJV: fitly framed together groweth unto
INT: building fitted together increases to a temple

Ephesians 4:15 V-ASA-1P
GRK: ἐν ἀγάπῃ αὐξήσωμεν εἰς αὐτὸν
NAS: in love, we are to grow up in all
KJV: in love, may grow up into him
INT: in love we might grow up into him

Colossians 1:6 V-PPM/P-NNS
GRK: καρποφορούμενον καὶ αὐξανόμενον καθὼς καὶ
NAS: it is constantly bearing fruit and increasing, even
INT: bringing forth fruit and increasing even as also

Colossians 1:10 V-PPM/P-NMP
GRK: καρποφοροῦντες καὶ αὐξανόμενοι τῇ ἐπιγνώσει
NAS: work and increasing in the knowledge
KJV: work, and increasing in the knowledge
INT: bringing forth fruit and growing in the knowledge

Colossians 2:19 V-PIA-3S
GRK: καὶ συμβιβαζόμενον αὔξει τὴν αὔξησιν
NAS: and ligaments, grows with a growth
KJV: knit together, increaseth with the increase
INT: and knit together increases [with] the increase

1 Peter 2:2 V-ASP-2P
GRK: ἐν αὐτῷ αὐξηθῆτε εἰς σωτηρίαν
NAS: so that by it you may grow in respect
KJV: of the word, that ye may grow thereby:
INT: by it you might grow in respect to salvation

2 Peter 3:18 V-PMA-2P
GRK: αὐξάνετε δὲ ἐν
NAS: but grow in the grace and knowledge
KJV: But grow in grace,
INT: grow moreover in

Strong's Greek 837
23 Occurrences


αὐξάνει — 1 Occ.
αὐξάνειν — 1 Occ.
αὐξάνετε — 1 Occ.
αὐξάνων — 1 Occ.
αὐξανόμενα — 1 Occ.
αὐξανομένης — 1 Occ.
αὐξανόμενοι — 1 Occ.
αὐξανόμενον — 1 Occ.
αὐξάνουσιν — 1 Occ.
αὐξήσει — 1 Occ.
αὐξήσωμεν — 1 Occ.
αὐξηθῇ — 1 Occ.
αὐξηθῆτε — 1 Occ.
αὔξει — 2 Occ.
ηὔξανεν — 6 Occ.
ηὔξησεν — 2 Occ.

















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