Wax

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( n.) Cerumen, or earwax.

(2): ( n.) Hence, any substance resembling beeswax in consistency or appearance.

(3): ( n.) A waxlike composition used for uniting surfaces, for excluding air, and for other purposes; as, sealing wax, grafting wax, etching wax, etc.

(4): ( n.) A waxlike composition used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.

(5): ( n.) A fatty, solid substance, produced by bees, and employed by them in the construction of their comb; - usually called beeswax. It is first excreted, from a row of pouches along their sides, in the form of scales, which, being masticated and mixed with saliva, become whitened and tenacious. Its natural color is pale or dull yellow.

(6): ( v. i.) To increase in size; to grow bigger; to become larger or fuller; - opposed to wane.

(7): ( n.) A substance, somewhat resembling wax, found in connection with certain deposits of rock salt and coal; - called also mineral wax, and ozocerite.

(8): ( n.) Thick sirup made by boiling down the sap of the sugar maple, and then cooling.

(9): ( v. t.) To smear or rub with wax; to treat with wax; as, to wax a thread or a table.

(10): ( n.) A waxlike product secreted by certain plants. See Vegetable wax, under Vegetable.

(11): ( n.) A substance similar to beeswax, secreted by several species of scale insects, as the Chinese wax. See Wax insect, below.

(12): ( v. i.) To pass from one state to another; to become; to grow; as, to wax strong; to wax warmer or colder; to wax feeble; to wax old; to wax worse and worse.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Προκόπτω (Strong'S #4298 — Verb — prokopto — prok-op'-to )

for which see Advance , is rendered "to wax" in  2—Timothy 3:13 .

2: Γίνομαι (Strong'S #1096 — Verb — ginomai — ghin'-om-ahee )

"to become," is translated "waxed" in  Luke 13:19 , AV (RV, "became"); in  Hebrews 11:34 , AV and RV, "waxed:" see Come , No. 12, etc.

King James Dictionary

WAX, n. G., L.

1. A thick, viscid, tenacious substance, collected by bees, or excreted from their bodies, and employed in the construction of their cells usually called bees wax. Its native color is yellow, but it is bleached for candles, &c. 2. A thick tenacious substance excreted in the ear. 3. A substance secreted by certain plants, forming a silvery powder on the leaves and fruit, as in the wax-palm and wax-myrtle. 4. A substance found on the hinder legs of bees, which is supposed to be their food. 5. A substance used in sealing letters called sealing-wax, or Spanish wax. This is a composition of gum-lacca and resin, colored with some pigment. 6. A thick substance used by shoemakers for rubbing their thread.

WAX, To smear or rub with wax as, to wax, a thread or a table.

WAX, pret. waxed. pp. waxed or waxen. G., L., Gr.

1. To increase in size to grow to become larger as the waxing and the waning moon. 2. To pass from one state to another to become as, to wax strong to wax warm or cold to wax feeble to wax hot to wax old to wax worse and worse.

Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary

דונג ,  Psalms 22:14;  Psalms 68:2;  Psalms 97:5;  Micah 1:4 . Thus the LXX throughout, κηρος , and vulgate cera; so there is no room to doubt but this is the true meaning of the word: and the idea of the root appears to be soft, melting, yielding, or the like, which properties are not only well known to belong to wax, but are also intimated in all the passages of Scripture in which this word occurs.

Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types

 Psalm 22:14 (b) In this peculiar way the Lord describes His feelings when stricken with the terrible agony, sorrow and grief at Calvary. He was becoming as wicked as we, and it brought about these terrible feelings in His righteous soul.

Easton's Bible Dictionary

 Psalm 22:14 68:2 97:5 Micah 1:4

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

To grow or become,  Exodus 22:24;  Isaiah 50:9;  Luke 13:19 .

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

WAX . See Education, p. 205 a; Writing, 6 .

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

( דּוֹנָג or דּוֹנִג , Dondg, supposed to come from a root דנג , significant of Melting or Yielding), the soft sticky substance of which bees form their cells, and which is readily separated from the honey by melting in warm water ( Psalms 22:14;  Psalms 68:2;  Psalms 97:5;  Micah 1:4). This is properly called Beeswax, and is of vegetable origin, although manipulated by the bees from the pollen of flowers. But there are other kinds of wax, made from resins, either vegetable or mineral (the latter originally vegetable likewise), by the addition of proportions of grease, such as shoemaker's wax, grafting wax, etc. It is doubtful whether the Hebrews were acquainted with any of these artificial sorts.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

waks  :

(1) Noun ( דּונג , dōnagh ): Used only in a simile of melting (  Psalm 22:14;  Psalm 68:2;  Psalm 97:5;  Micah 1:4 ). See Writing .

(2) A now archaic verb, meaning "to grow," used freely in English Versions of the Bible as a translation of various terms in Greek and Hebrew. The past participle in the King James Version and the English Revised Version is "waxen," except in  Genesis 18:12 . There (and throughout in the American Standard Revised Version) the form is "waxed."