μηκύνω
mēkýnō · G3373 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to grow
To increase in length, restricted in the NT to the growth of plants
ExamplesMark 4:27 and he goes to bed at night and gets up daily, and the seed sprouts and grows—how, he himself does not know.
How it’s used In 1 role
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the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- σπόροςseed 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 1 entry
- To grow23.190
- This sense denotes an increase in size over time. In the parable of the growing seed, Mark 4:27 says that after the sower scatters seed, “the seed sprouts and grows—how, he himself does not know.”
Word family 10 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : (μῆκος); from Herodotus and Pindar down; to make long, to lengthen; in the Bible twice…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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