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
¶ And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
¶ And the children of Israel were fruitfull, and increased aboundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty, and the land was filled with them.
1611 marginal noteActs. 7.17.
Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.
Therefore God dealt well with the midwiues: and the people multiplied and waxed very mighty.
And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
And they gathered it euery morning, euery man according to his eating: and when the Sunne waxed hot, it melted.
And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.
And when the voyce of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed lowder and lowder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voyce.
¶ And it came to pass, as soon as he came nigh unto the camp, that he saw the calf, and the dancing: and Moses’ anger waxed hot, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
¶ And it came to passe, assoone as he came nigh vnto the campe, that he saw the Calfe, and the dancing: and Moses anger waxed hot, and he cast the Tables out of his hands, and brake them beneath the mount.
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