KJV dictionary & concordance
Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of wax, meaning to grow, increase, or become.
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Some verses contain the word more than once.
First occurrence: Genesis 18:12
Complete exact-word concordance
¶ But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.
¶ But Abiiah waxed mighty, and married fourteene wiues, and begate twentie and two sonnes, and sixteene daughters.
¶ And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.
¶ And Iehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly, and he built in Iudah castles, and cities of store.
1611 marginal noteOr, palaces
¶ But Jehoiada waxed old, and was full of days when he died; an hundred and thirty years old was he when he died.
¶ But Iehoiada waxed old, and was full of dayes when hee died: an hundred and thirtie yeeres olde was hee when hee died.
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