Strong's #837: auzano (pronounced owx-an'-o)

a prolonged form of a primary verb; to grow ("wax"), i.e. enlarge (literal or figurative, active or passive):--grow (up), (give the) increase.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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auxanō

1) to cause to grow, augment

2) to increase, become greater

3) to grow, increase

3a) of plants

3b) of infants

3c) of a multitude of people

3d) of inward Christian growth

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a prolonged form of a primary verb

Usage:

This word is used 22 times:

 

Matthew 6:28: "of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:"
Matthew 13:32: "seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and"
Mark 4:8: "fruit that sprang up and increased; and brought forth, some thirty,"
Luke 1:80: "And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and"
Luke 2:40: "And the child grew, and waxed strong in spirit, filled"
Luke 12:27: "the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not;"
Luke 13:19: "his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree;"
John 3:30: "He must increase, but I must decrease."
Acts 6:7: "the word of God increased; and the number of the"
Acts 7:17: "to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt,"
Acts 12:24: "the word of God grew and multiplied."
Acts 19:20: "So mightily grew the word of God and"
1 Corinthians 3:6: "watered; but God gave the increase."
1 Corinthians 3:7: "he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase."
2 Corinthians 9:10: "your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)"
2 Corinthians 10:15: "hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according"
Ephesians 2:21: "the building fitly framed together groweth unto a holy temple in"
Ephesians 4:15: "speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which"
Colossians 1:10: "good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;"
Colossians 2:19: "having nourishment ministered, and knit together, increaseth with the increase of God."
1 Peter 2:2: "milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:"
2 Peter 3:18: "But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord"