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wax

Meaning of “wax”

To grow, increase, or become.

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24 occurrences23 verses13 booksKJV PCE

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First occurrence: Exodus 22:24

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Job 6:17
What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.
1 word occurrence in this verse
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1611 witness · Job 6:17 · retained source text

What time they waxe warme, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

1611 marginal noteHebr. they are cut off.

1611 marginal noteHebr. in the heat thereof.

1611 marginal noteHebr. extinguished.

Job 14:8
Though the root thereof wax old in the earth, and the stock thereof die in the ground;
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1611 witness · Job 14:8 · retained source text

Though the roote thereof waxe old in the earth, and the stocke thereof die in the ground:

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