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Grow
King James Dictionary
or GROW, pret. grew pp. grown. L. cresco.
1. To enlarge in bulk or stature, by a natural, imperceptible addition of matter, through ducts and secreting organs, as animal and vegetable bodies to vegetate as plants, or to be augmented by natural process, as animals. Thus, a plant grows from a seed to a shrub or tree, and a human being grows from a fetus to a man.
He causeth the grass to grow for cattle. Psalms 104
2. To be produced by vegetation as, wheat grows in most parts of the world rice grows only in warm climates.
3. To increase to be augmented to wax as, a body grows larger by inflation or distension intemperance is a growing evil.
4. To advance to improve to make progress as, to grow in grace, in knowledge, in piety. The young man is growing in reputation.
5. To advance to extend. His reputation is growing.
6. To come by degrees to become to reach any state as, he grows more skillful, or more prudent. Let not vice grow to a habit, or into a habit.
7. To come forward to advance. Not much used.
Winter began to grow fast on.
8. To be changed from one state to another to become as, to grow pale to grow poor to grow rich.
9. To proceed, as from a cause or reason. Lax morals may grow from errors in opinion.
10. To accrue to come.
Why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings. Ezra 4
11. To swell to increase as, the wind grew to a tempest.
To grow out of, to issue from as plants from the soil, or as a branch from the main stem.
These wars have grown out of commercial considerations.
To grow up, to arrive at manhood, or to advance to full stature or maturity.
To grow up,
To grow together, To close and adhere to become united by growth as flesh or the bark of a tree severed.
Grow, signifies properly to shoot out, to enlarge but it is often used to denote a passing from one state to another, and from greater to less.
Marriages grow less frequent.
To grow less, is an abuse of this word the phrase should be to become less.
GROW, To produce to raise as, a farmer grows large quantities of wheat. This is a modern abusive use of grow, but prevalent in Great Britain, and the British use begins to be imitated in America. Until within a few years, we never heard grow used as a transitive verb in New England, and the ear revolts at the practice.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Grow'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/g/grow.html.
