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grew

Meaning of “grew”

Increased or developed in size, age, maturity, number, strength, influence, severity, or condition; arose and progressed from a smaller or earlier state.

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First occurrence: Genesis 2:5

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Showing verses 21–28 of 28 · 28 word occurrences in this result

Mark 4:7
And some fell among thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
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And some fell among thornes, and the thornes grew vp, and choked it, and it yeelded no fruite.

Mark 5:26
And had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,
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1611 witness · Mark 5:26 · retained source text

And had suffered many things of many Physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather grew worse,

Luke 1:80
And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his shewing unto Israel.
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And the childe grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts, till the day of his shewing vnto Israel.

Luke 13:19
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.
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1611 witness · Luke 13:19 · retained source text

It is like a graine of mustard seed, which a man tooke, and cast into his garden, and it grew, and waxed a great tree: and the foules of the aire lodged in the branches of it.

Acts 7:17
But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,
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1611 witness · Acts 7:17 · retained source text

But when the time of the promise drew nigh, which God had sworne to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,

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