noun · feminine
auxēsias
Strong’sG838
increasing, increase, growth
stem auxēsi-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
** αὔξησις, -εως, ἡ
(< αὔξω), [in LXX: II Mac 5:16*;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G838 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidowx'-ay-sis
growth
Fromfrom G837;
King Jamesincrease.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
growth, increase, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the Delta, Refs 5th c.BC+, increments, Refs 5th c.BC+; multiplications, Refs 1st c.BC+
2 amplification, in Rhet., Refs 4th c.BC+
3 Grammars, the augment, Refs
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | auxēsias | auxēsiais |
| object accusative | auxēsian2×αὔξησιν | auxēsiain |
| direct address vocative | auxēsiar | auxēsiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | auxēsiau | auxēsiaiu |
| to, for dative | auxēsia | auxēsiai |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
auxēsia is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
2 occurrences, every one of them listed
auxēsian“growth”objectaccusative singular2×
Ephesians 4:16“growth”… en metre heneu hekasteu mereu tan auxēsian teu sōmeu poiotō eis oikodoman heauteu …… and builds itself up in love through the work of each individual part.
Colossians 2:19“growth”… sundesmoiu epichorēgorōntem kai sumbibazorōntem auxatō tan auxēsian tou theou.… joints and ligaments, grows as God causes it …