Word

αὐξάνω

auxánō · G837 · Greek · 23 occurrences

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Meanings

to increase, to grow, to spread, to extend

To increase in the extent of or in the instances of an activity or state

Examples
Acts 6:7 The word of God kept spreading; and the number of the disciples continued to increase greatly in Jerusalem, and a great many of the priests were becoming obedient to the faith.
Acts 12:24 But the word of the Lord continued to grow and to be multiplied.
2 Corinthians 10:15 not boasting beyond our measure, that is, in other people’s labors, but with the hope that as your faith grows, we will be, within our domain, enlarged even more by you,
to cause to increase, to increase

To cause something to increase

Examples
1 Corinthians 3:6 I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth.
1 Corinthians 3:7 So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth.
2 Corinthians 9:10 Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness;
to grow, growth

To grow, to increase in size, whether of animate beings or of plants

Examples
Matthew 6:28 “And why are you worried about clothing? Notice how the lilies of the field grow; they do not labor nor do they spin thread for cloth,
Matthew 13:32 and this is smaller than all the other seeds, but when it is fully grown, it is larger than the garden plants and becomes a tree, so that THE BIRDS OF THE SKY come and NEST IN ITS BRANCHES.”
Mark 4:8 “Other seeds fell into the good soil, and as they grew up and increased, they yielded a crop and produced thirty, sixty, and a hundred times as much.”
to become more important, to enjoy greater respect or honor

To increase in status

Examples
John 3:30 “He must increase, but I must decrease.

How it’s used In 7 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

21 occurrences in 13 groups

Not stated: he, she or it 4
λόγοςword, saying, message 3
Other words · 11 groups that occur once or twice (14) 14

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

γέννημαoffspring 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

7 occurrences in 12 groups

Other words · 12 groups that occur once or twice (12) 12

With adverbsAdverbs

3 occurrences in 2 groups

πῶςhow? by what means? 2
οὕτωso, thus, in this way 1

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

κεφαλήhead 1
κόκκοςseed 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

δέωto bind, to tie 1

What is done to itIt is the object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

καταμανθάνωto consider 1
κατανοέωto think about very carefully 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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In the other Testament 1 word

פָּרָה pârâh · H6509 · to grow, to sprout, to bear: פָּרָה (pârâh, H6509) emphasizes productivity and fruit-bearing as the outcome of growth, while αὐξάνω (auxánō, G837) focuses on the process of increase or enlargement itself; both share the core semantic domain of increase/growth, making them natural translation equivalents across contexts of agricultural, biological, or figurative expansion.

Semantic domains 5 entries

To grow, growth23.188: Used of natural biological growth, as of the lilies of the field that grow in Matthew 6:28 and the mustard seed that becomes fully grown in Matthew 13:32.
To increase, to grow, to spread, to extend59.62: Used of an increase in extent or scale, as of the seed that grows and increases in Mark 4:8 and of the word of God continuing to spread in Acts 12:24.
To cause to increase, to increase59.63: Used causatively of bringing about growth, as of God who was causing the growth in 1 Corinthians 3:6-7.
To increase, to grow78.5: Used of a general increase in strength or capacity, as of the child John who grew and became strong in spirit in Luke 1:80 and of Jesus who continued to grow and become strong in Luke 2:40.
To become more important, to enjoy greater respect or honor87.37: Used of increasing in status or prominence, as of John the Baptist's declaration that He must increase while I must decrease in John 3:30.

Word family 6 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

αὐξάνωauxánō · G837ὑγιαίνω hygiaínō · G5198 · to be well, to be healthy, to be correct · 12×ὑγιής hygiḗs · G5199 · to be well, to be healthy, right · 12×αὔξησις aúxēsis · G838 · to grow, growth · 2×συναυξάνω synauxánō · G4885 · to grow with, to grow together · 1×ὑπεραυξάνω hyperauxánō · G5232 · to increase greatly · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon and earlier (the only form in Pindar and Sophocles (Veitch, under the word says, 'Hesiod,…

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 (Eph 2:21; Col 2:19); imperfect ηὔξανον; future αὐξήσω; 1 aorist ἠύξησα; (passive, present ἀυξάνομαι); 1 aorist,
1. transitive, to cause to grow, to augment: 1 Cor 3:6; 2 Cor 9:10. Passive to grow, increase, become greater: Mt 13:32; Mk 4:8 L T Tr WH; 2 Cor 10:15; Col 1:6 (not Rec.); εἰς τήν ἐπίγνωσιν τοῦ Θεοῦ unto the knowledge of God, Col 1:10 (G L T Tr WH τῇ ἐπιγνώσει τοῦ Θεοῦ); εἰς σωτηρίαν (not Rec.) to the attaining of salvation, 1 Pet 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, Mt 6:28; Mk 4:8 Rec.; Lk 12:27 (not Tdf.; Tr marginal reading brackets αὐξάνω); Lk 13:19; of infants, Lk 1:80; Lk 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, Eph 4:15; εἰς ναόν, so as to form a temple, Eph 2:21; ἐν χάριτι, 2 Pet 3:18; with an accusative of the substance. τήν αὔξησιν, Col 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 ὁ 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), Jn 3:30. (Compare: συναυξάνω, ὑπεραυξάνω.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 4 entries

Grow, Growth8 occurrences Increase, Decrease14 occurrences Much, Little [Positive-Negative Degree]1 occurrence High Status or Rank [including persons of high status]1 occurrence

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