Increase
King James Dictionary [1]
Incre'Ase, L incresco in and cresco, to grow.
1. To become greater in bulk or quantity to grow to augment as plants. Hence, to become more in number to advance in value, or in any quality good or bad. Animal and vegetable bodies increase by natural growth wealth increases by industry heat increases, as the sun advances towards the meridian a multitude increases by accession of numbers knowledge increases with age and study passion and enmity increase by irritation, and misery increases with vice.
The Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another. 1 Thessalonians 3
2. To become more violent as, the fever increases the pain increases cold, wind or a storm increases. 3. To become more bright or vivid as, the light increases. 4. To swell to rise.
The waters increased and bore up the ark. Genesis 7
5. To swell to become louder, as sound. 6. To become of more esteem and authority.
He must increase, but I must decrease. John 3
7. To enlarge, as the enlightened part of the moon's disk.
INCRE'ASE, To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity or amount as, to increase wealth or treasure to increase a sum or value.
1. To advance in quality to add to any quality or affection as, to increase the strength of moral habits to increase love, zeal or passion. 2. To extend to lengthen as, to increase distance. 3. To extend to spread as, to increase fame or renown. 4. To aggravate as, to increase guilt or trespass.
INCRE'ASE, n. Augmentation a growing larger extension.
Of the increase of his government and peace, there shall be no end. Isaiah 9
1. Increment profit interest that which is added to the original stock.
Take thou no interest of him or increase but fear thy God. Leviticus 25
2. Produce, as of land.
Then shall the earth yield her increase. Psalms 67
3. Progeny issue offspring.
All the increase of thy house shall die in the flower of their age. 1 Samuel 2 .
4. Generation. 5. The waxing of the moon the augmentation of the luminous part of the moon, presented to the inhabitants of the earth.
Seeds, hair, nails, hedges and herbs will grow soonest,if set or cut in the increase of the moon.
6. Augmentation of strength or violence as increase of heat, love or other passion increase of force. 7. Augmentation of degree as increase of happiness or misery.
Webster's Dictionary [2]
(1): ( v. i.) To become greater or more in size, quantity, number, degree, value, intensity, power, authority, reputation, wealth; to grow; to augment; to advance; - opposed to decrease.
(2): ( v. i.) Progeny; issue; offspring.
(3): ( v. i.) Generation.
(4): ( v. t.) To augment or make greater in bulk, quantity, extent, value, or amount, etc.; to add to; to extend; to lengthen; to enhance; to aggravate; as, to increase one's possessions, influence.
(5): ( v. i.) Addition or enlargement in size, extent, quantity, number, intensity, value, substance, etc.; augmentation; growth.
(6): ( v. i.) The period of increasing light, or luminous phase; the waxing; - said of the moon.
(7): ( v. i.) To multiply by the production of young; to be fertile, fruitful, or prolific.
(8): ( v. i.) To become more nearly full; to show more of the surface; to wax; as, the moon increases.
(9): ( v. i.) That which is added to the original stock by augmentation or growth; produce; profit; interest.
Holman Bible Dictionary [3]
Leviticus 26:3-4 Deuteronomy 7:12-13 Isaiah 9:7 Isaiah 29:19 Isaiah 9:3 Isaiah 40:29
The increase of the word of God ( Acts 6:7 ) refers to the spread of the gospel message. Increase is used both for the numerical growth of the church ( Acts 16:5 ) and for maturation ( Ephesians 4:16; Colossians 2:19 ). Christian maturity is evidenced by an increase in love ( 1 Thessalonians 3:12; 1 Thessalonians 4:10 ) and knowledge of God ( Colossians 1:10 ). Boasting in the results of one's work for God is without a basis since God gives the increase ( 1 Corinthians 3:6 , Colossians 2:19 ).
Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words [4]
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia [5]
in´krēs , (noun), in - krēs ´ (verb): Employed in the English Bible both as verb and as noun, and in both cases to represent a number of different words in the original. As a verb it is used in the ordinary sense of the term. As a noun it is usually used of plant life, or of the herds and flocks, to denote the fruitage or the offspring; more rarely of money, to denote the interest. As examples of the different terms translated by this word, students who read Hebrew or Greek may compare Deuteronomy 7:22; Proverbs 16:21; Job 10:16 the King James Version; Job 12:23; Numbers 18:30; Deuteronomy 7:13; Ezekiel 22:12 in the Old Testament, and John 3:30; 1 Corinthians 3:6; Colossians 2:19; Ephesians 4:16 in the New Testament.
