Bible Dictionary: Augment

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (v. t.) To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; as, to augment an army by reinforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil.

2. (v. t.) To add an augment to.

3. (v. i.) To increase; to grow larger, stronger, or more intense; as, a stream augments by rain.

4. (n.) Enlargement by addition; increase.

5. (n.) A vowel prefixed, or a lengthening of the initial vowel, to mark past time, as in Greek and Sanskrit verbs.

Strong's Hebrew

5595. saphah -- to sweep or snatch away, catch up
... add, augment, consume, destroy, heap, join, perish, put. A primitive root;
properly, to scrape (literally, to shave; but usually ...
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3527. kabar -- to be much or many
... A primitive root; properly, to plait together, ie (figuratively) to augment (especially
in number or quantity, to accumulate) -- in abundance, multiply. ...
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3254. yasaph -- to add
... A primitive root; to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing) --
add, X again, X any more, X cease, X come more, + conceive again, continue ...
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Library

Verbs, 15-33
... 19. Augment. a. The augment with the pluperfect is at times omitted by Plato
and the best Attic writers. Instances in the LXX are -. ...
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The Properties of Sanctifying Grace
... or less degree, according to the liberality of God and the disposition of the
individual Christian, and those who are in the state of grace may augment it by ...
/.../pohle/grace actual and habitual/section 3 the properties of.htm

Christian Devotedness, Etc.
... they gave of it in their conduct, and being moreover convinced that the exhibition
of this love tends directly and most powerfully to augment the prosperity of ...
/.../groves/christian devotedness/christian devotedness etc.htm

On the Difficulties and Duties of the Christian Life.
... Why should we entertain such unreasonable fears, which damp our spirits and
weaken our hands, and augment the difficulties of our way? ...
/.../scougal/the life of god in the soul of man/part iii on the difficulties.htm

The First Theban Empire
... which had not been absorbed by the soil was poured back into the valley by the same
channels, and carried down by the Bahr-Yusuf to augment the inundation of ...
/.../chapter iiithe first theban empire.htm

The Nativity
... Who called them out of deep primeval night; Their form and beauty but augment
my woe,. I seek the Giver of those charms they show: ...
/.../translations from the french of madame de la mothe guion/the nativity.htm

Impressive Phrases
... brilliant, beautiful, elegant, and faithful. broaden, enlarge, extend, and
augment. business, profession, occupation, and vocation. C. ...
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The Faults Committed in this Degree --Distractions, Temptations ...
... In distractions or temptations, instead of combating them directly, which would
only serve to augment them, and to wean us from God, with whom alone we ought ...
/.../chapter xiv the faults committed.htm

The Method of Prayer
... our dissipated senses, as the most easy method of overcoming distractions; for a
direct contest and opposition only serves to irritate and augment them; whereas ...
/.../guyon/a short and easy method of prayer/chapter ii the method of.htm

The Programme of Christianity
... What, then, does Christ do all day? By what further conception shall we
augment the selfish view of why Christ lived and died? I ...
/.../the programme of christianity 2.htm

Thesaurus

Augment (1 Occurrence)
... 1. (vt) To enlarge or increase in size, amount, or degree; as, to augment an army
by reinforcements; rain augments a stream; impatience augments an evil. ...
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Add (135 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To join or unite, as one thing to another, or as several particulars, so
as to increase the number, augment the quantity, enlarge the magnitude, or so ...
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Increase (184 Occurrences)
... 1. (vi) To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity,
power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance ...
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Messenger (235 Occurrences)
... Quite frequent is a perfect like dedokan, and the augment is often absent
in the plu-perfect as in dedokei. Per contra, a double ...
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Diminish (22 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (vt) To make smaller in any manner; to reduce in
bulk or amount; to lessen; -- opposed to augment or increase. ...
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Magnify (25 Occurrences)
... 2. (vt) To increase the importance of; to augment the esteem or respect in which
one is held. 3. (vt) To praise highly; to land; to extol. ...
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Make (12882 Occurrences)
... 19. (vi) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; -- with for or against; as, it
makes for his advantage. 20. (vi) To increase; to augment; to accrue. 21. ...
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Progeny (1 Occurrence)
... Numbers 32:14 And behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, a progeny of sinful
men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel. (DBY). ...
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Brood (19 Occurrences)
... Numbers 32:14 And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers'stead, an increase of
sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Jehovah toward Israel. ...
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Augmenteth (1 Occurrence)

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Bible Concordance

Augment (1 Occurrence)

Numbers 32:14 "Behold, you have risen up in your fathers' place, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of Yahweh toward Israel.
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Subtopics

Augment

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