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The concept of growth is a recurring theme throughout the Bible, symbolizing both physical and spiritual development. In Scripture, growth is often used metaphorically to describe the maturation of faith, the expansion of God's kingdom, and the increase of wisdom and understanding among believers.

Physical Growth:
Physical growth is acknowledged in the Bible as a natural part of life. In Luke 2:52, it is noted that "Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and man." This verse highlights the holistic development of Jesus, encompassing physical, intellectual, and spiritual growth.

Spiritual Growth:
Spiritual growth is a central focus in the New Testament, where believers are encouraged to mature in their faith. In 2 Peter 3:18, the apostle Peter exhorts Christians to "grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ." This growth is not merely an increase in knowledge but involves a deeper relationship with Christ and a more profound understanding of His teachings.

The Apostle Paul frequently addresses spiritual growth in his epistles. In Ephesians 4:15, he writes, "Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into Christ Himself, who is the head." Here, growth is associated with unity and maturity within the body of Christ, emphasizing the importance of love and truth in the process.

Growth of the Kingdom:
The growth of God's kingdom is another significant theme. Jesus uses parables to illustrate this concept, such as the Parable of the Mustard Seed in Matthew 13:31-32: "The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man planted in his field. Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet when it grows, it is the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches." This parable demonstrates how the kingdom of God starts small but grows to have a significant impact.

Growth in Wisdom and Understanding:
The Bible also emphasizes the importance of growing in wisdom and understanding. Proverbs 1:5 states, "Let the wise listen and gain instruction, and the discerning acquire wise counsel." Growth in wisdom is portrayed as a lifelong pursuit, essential for living a life that honors God.

Obstacles to Growth:
Scripture acknowledges that growth can be hindered by various factors. In the Parable of the Sower (Matthew 13:3-9, 18-23), Jesus describes how different types of soil affect the growth of seeds, symbolizing how different conditions of the heart can impact spiritual growth. Thorns, representing the cares of the world and the deceitfulness of wealth, can choke the word, making it unfruitful.

Encouragement to Grow:
Believers are encouraged to actively pursue growth. Hebrews 5:12-14 admonishes those who remain spiritually immature, urging them to move beyond elementary teachings and grow into maturity. The passage highlights the expectation that believers should progress in their understanding and application of God's word.

In summary, the Bible presents growth as an essential aspect of the Christian life, encompassing physical, spiritual, and intellectual dimensions. It is a process that requires intentionality, perseverance, and reliance on God's grace. Through growth, believers are better equipped to fulfill their purpose and contribute to the expansion of God's kingdom.

Greek

305. anabaino -- to go up, ascend
... 3), came (7), climbed (1), climbs (1), come (4), comes (2), coming (3), entered
(2), go (6), goes (1), going (6), gone (3), got (2), grew (1), grows (1), rises ...
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837. auxano -- to make to grow, to grow
... to make to grow, to grow NASB Word Usage causes the growth (1), causing the growth
(1), full grown (1), grew (1), grow (8), growing (2), grows (2), increase (2 ...
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2210. zemioo -- to damage, suffer loss
... the irony of how . As a person grows in knowing Christ they willingly
"lose" their "right" to be #NAME? eternal significance in ...
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4121. pleonazo -- to superabound, to make to abound
... of polus Definition to superabound, to make to abound NASB Word Usage cause* (1),
grows...greater (1), have too much (1), increase (3), increased (1 ...
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3653. olunthos -- an unripe fig
... olunthos Phonetic Spelling: (ol'-oon-thos) Short Definition: an unripe fig Definition:
an unripe fig, one which, not ripening in due time, grows through the ...
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2215. zizanion -- zizanium (a kind of darnel resembling wheat)
... zizanion Phonetic Spelling: (dziz-an'-ee-on) Short Definition: spurious wheat, darnel
Definition: spurious wheat, darnel; a plant that grows in Palestine which ...
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3373. mekuno -- to lengthen, grow
... Word Origin from mekos Definition to lengthen, grow NASB Word Usage grows (1). grow
up. From mekos; to lengthen, ie (middle voice) to enlarge -- grow up. ...
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4808. suke -- a fig tree
... Definition: a fig-tree. 4808 -- fig tree which grows plentifully in Palestine
as a wild and cultivated tree. The fig tree bears ...
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4807. sukaminos -- the mulberry tree, the sycamine
... 4809 ().]. 4807 ("mulberry tree") is deciduous, yields black berries, and
grows about six meters high (roughly 20 feet). [ the 4809 ...
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Strong's Hebrew

5501b. sachish -- something that grows by itself (a kind of grain)
... 5501a, 5501b. sachish. 5502 . something that grows by itself (a kind of
grain). Transliteration: sachish Short Definition: springs. ...
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5599b. saphiach -- growth from spilled kernels
... Word Origin from the same as saphiach Definition growth from spilled kernels NASB
Word Usage aftergrowth (2), what grows (2). 5599a, 5599b. saphiach. 5600 ...
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8259. shaqaph -- to overhang, look out or down
... root Definition to overhang, look out or down NASB Word Usage grows (1), look down
(1), looked (6), looked down (8), looks down (3), overlooks* (3). ...
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8025. shalaph -- to draw out or off
... Word Origin a prim. root Definition to draw out or off NASB Word Usage draw (9),
drawn (4), drawn forth (1), drew (7), grows (1), removed (2), swordsmen* (1). ...
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5927. alah -- to go up, ascend, climb
... 1), get back (1), give off (1), go (140), goes (6), going (8), gone (18), gone away
(2), got back (1), grew (3), grow (2), grow back (1), grows (1), imported ...
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5848c. ataph -- to be feeble or faint
... root Definition to be feeble or faint NASB Word Usage faint (4), fainted (1), fainting
away (1), feeble (1), feebler (1), grow faint (1), grows faint (1 ...
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5599. caphiyach -- outpouring
... akh) Short Definition: outpouring. such things as which grow of themselves,
which grows of its own accord From caphach; something ...
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3318. yatsa -- to go or come out
... 1), go off (1), go outside (2), go straight (1), goes (10), goes forth (9), going
(20), going forth (8), gone (23), gone forth (10), grow (1), grows (1), hardly ...
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1431. gadal -- to grow up, become great
... great things (5), great things he has done (1), greater (4), grew (15), grew...great
(1), grow (2), grow long (1), grown (5), grown-up (1), grows (1), highly ...
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Library

How the Soul Grows Cold in Holy Love.
... BOOK IV. OF THE DECAY AND RUIN OF CHARITY. CHAPTER II. HOW THE SOUL GROWS
COLD IN HOLY LOVE. The soul is often grieved and troubled ...
/.../francis/treatise on the love of god/chapter ii how the soul.htm

The Great vine Picture.
... Each of these four words grows out of the other as fruit out of blossom, and blossom
out of the new branch and that out of the old stock of the vine: believe ...
/.../gordon/quiet talks on johns gospel/the great vine picture.htm

Growth in Grace
... grace? (1.) He grows vigore, in the exercise of grace. His ... forth. Cant 4:16.
(2.) A Christian grows gradu, in the degree of grace. He ...
//christianbookshelf.org/watson/a body of divinity/9 growth in grace.htm

'To Him that Hath Shall be Given'
... course. Treasure used grows; treasure hoarded rusts and dwindles. The millionaire
will double his fortune by a successful speculation. ...
/.../maclaren/expositions of holy scripture b/to him that hath shall.htm

"Consider the Lilies. "
... and anxieties. The lily does not struggle; it has no anxieties about its
future; but it grows. It grows to be beautiful. Even Solomon ...
//christianbookshelf.org/orr/how to live a holy life/consider the lilies.htm

To Prevent Ambiguity, we must Begin with Clear Definition.
... For were one to say that he calls whatever grows and is fed an animal, we shall
have again to ask further, whether he considered plants to be animals; and then ...
/.../clement/the stromata or miscellanies/chapter iv to prevent ambiguity we.htm

Spelling God.
... The spelling grows bigger to us when Jesus comes. ... God grows larger to our eyes as
He comes walking among us as Jesus. No, He doesn't grow larger. ...
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Growing Faith.
... A man can get a deeper faith only by walking on his own feet where Jesus leads.
Their faith grows imperceptibly but by leaps and bounds. ...
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"Thou Shall Keep Him in Perfect Peace, Whose Mind is Stayed on ...
... Christ Jesus is the tree of life, that grows in the garden of God; trusting in him
by faith implants a soul in him,"roots a soul in him, by virtue of which ...
/.../binning/the works of the rev hugh binning/sermon xii thou shall keep.htm

To Monna Agnese who was the Wife of Messer Orso Malavolti
... It burns and does not consume, but is evermore renewed"that is, it never
grows less, and therefore I say, it does not consume. ...
/.../benincasa/letters of catherine benincasa/to monna agnese who was.htm

Thesaurus

Grows (46 Occurrences)
...Grows (46 Occurrences). ... Mark 4:27 he spends days and nights, now awake, now asleep,
while the seed sprouts and grows tall, he knows not how. (WEY NAS NIV). ...
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Gourd (4 Occurrences)
... noon-day sun. It grows with extraordinary rapidity, and when cut or injured
withers away also with great rapidity. (2.) Wild gourds ...
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Reap (35 Occurrences)
... Leviticus 25:5 What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap,
and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather. ...
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Grow (139 Occurrences)
... 3. (vi) To spring up and come to maturity in a natural way; to be produced by
vegetation; to thrive; to flourish; as, rice grows in warm countries. ...
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Yeast (48 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) Spume, or foam, of water. 3. (n.) A form of fungus which grows as individual
rounded cells, rather than in a mycelium, and reproduces by budding; esp. ...
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Undressed (4 Occurrences)
... (ASV YLT). Leviticus 25:5 What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap,
and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather. ...
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Grower (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary (n.) One who grows or produces; as, a grower of corn;
also, that which grows or increases; as, a vine may be a rank or a slow grower. ...
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Firmly (47 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 4:16 Dependent on Him, the whole body--its various parts closely fitting
and firmly adhering to one another-- grows by the aid of every contributory ...
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Flag (30 Occurrences)
... esculentus, a species of rush eaten by cattle, the Nile reed. It also grows
in Palestine. In Exodus 2:3, 5, Isaiah 19:6, it is the ...
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Fitting (29 Occurrences)
... Ephesians 4:16 Dependent on Him, the whole body--its various parts closely fitting
and firmly adhering to one another-- grows by the aid of every contributory ...
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Grows (46 Occurrences)

Matthew 13:32
which less, indeed, is than all the seeds, but when it may be grown, is greatest of the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the heaven do come and rest in its branches.'
(See NIV)

Mark 4:27
he spends days and nights, now awake, now asleep, while the seed sprouts and grows tall, he knows not how.
(WEY NAS NIV)

Mark 4:32
yet when it is sown, grows up, and becomes greater than all the herbs, and puts out great branches, so that the birds of the sky can lodge under its shadow."
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Luke 8:8
But some of the seed falls into good ground, and grows up and yields a return of a hundred for one." While thus speaking, He cried aloud and said, "Listen, every one who has ears to listen with!"
(WEY)

Luke 13:19
It is like a mustard seed which a man drops into the soil in his garden, and it grows and becomes a tree in whose branches the birds roost."
(WEY)

2 Corinthians 10:15
not boasting beyond proper limits in other men's labors, but having hope that as your faith grows, we will be abundantly enlarged by you in our sphere of influence,
(WEB WEY NAS)

Galatians 5:9
A little yeast grows through the whole lump.
(WEB)

Ephesians 2:21
in whom the whole building, fitted together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord;
(WEB RSV)

Ephesians 4:16
Dependent on Him, the whole body--its various parts closely fitting and firmly adhering to one another-- grows by the aid of every contributory link, with power proportioned to the need of each individual part, so as to build itself up in a spirit of love.
(WEY NIV)

Ephesians 4:22
that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man, that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit;
(WEB)

Colossians 2:19
and not holding firmly to the Head, from whom all the body, being supplied and knit together through the joints and ligaments, grows with God's growth.
(WEB WEY NAS RSV NIV)

2 Thessalonians 1:3
We are bound to always give thanks to God for you, brothers, even as it is appropriate, because your faith grows exceedingly, and the love of each and every one of you towards one another abounds;
(WEB NAS)

Hebrews 8:13
In that he says, "A new covenant," he has made the first old. But that which is becoming old and grows aged is near to vanishing away.
(WEB DBY)

Hebrews 12:15
looking carefully lest there be any man who falls short of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you, and many be defiled by it;
(See NIV)

Genesis 38:11
Then said Judah to Tamar his daughter-in-law: 'Remain a widow in thy father's house, till Shelah my son be grown up'; for he said: 'Lest he also die, like his brethren.' And Tamar went and dwelt in her father's house.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

Exodus 10:5
and they shall cover the surface of the earth, so that one won't be able to see the earth. They shall eat the residue of that which has escaped, which remains to you from the hail, and shall eat every tree which grows for you out of the field.
(WEB RSV)

Leviticus 25:5
What grows of itself in your harvest you shall not reap, and the grapes of your undressed vine you shall not gather. It shall be a year of solemn rest for the land.
(WEB RSV NIV)

Leviticus 25:11
That fiftieth year shall be a jubilee to you. In it you shall not sow, neither reap that which grows of itself, nor gather from the undressed vines.
(WEB RSV NIV)

Leviticus 25:49
or his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.
(See RSV)

Deuteronomy 29:23
and that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and a burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger, and in His wrath;
(See NAS)

Judges 19:9
When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady's father, said to him, "Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night: behold, the day grows to an end, lodge here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow go on your way early, that you may go home."
(WEB)

1 Kings 4:33
He spoke of trees, from the cedar that is in Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of animals, and of birds, and of creeping things, and of fish.
(See NAS RSV NIV)

2 Kings 19:26
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it is grown up.
(See NIV)

2 Kings 19:29
"'This shall be the sign to you: You shall eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs of the same; and in the third year sow, and reap, and plant vineyards, and eat its fruit.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Job 14:8
Though its root grows old in the earth, and its stock dies in the ground,
(WEB)

Job 17:9
Yet shall the righteous hold on his way. He who has clean hands shall grow stronger and stronger.
(See RSV)

Job 22:8
But as for the mighty man, he had the earth. The honorable man, he lived in it. it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
(WEB)

Job 30:30
My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
(WEB NIV)

Job 31:8
then let me sow, and let another eat. Yes, let the produce of my field be rooted out.
(See RSV)

Psalms 6:7
My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.
(WEB RSV)

Psalms 49:16
Don't be afraid when a man is made rich, when the glory of his house is increased.
(See NIV)

Psalms 61:2
From the end of the earth, I will call to you, when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
(See NIV)

Psalms 77:3
I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
(See NAS)

Psalms 88:9
My eyes are dim from grief. I have called on you daily, Yahweh. I have spread out my hands to you.
(See RSV)

Psalms 129:6
Let them be as the grass on the housetops, which withers before it grows up;
(WEB NAS RSV)

Psalms 142:3
When my spirit is overcome, your eyes are on my goings; nets have been secretly placed in the way in which I go.
(See NIV)

Psalms 143:4
Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.
(See NIV)

Proverbs 11:24
A man may give freely, and still his wealth will be increased; and another may keep back more than is right, but only comes to be in need.
(See RSV)

Proverbs 13:20
One who walks with wise men grows wise, but a companion of fools suffers harm.
(WEB NIV)

Song of Songs 6:10
Who is she, looking down as the morning light, fair as the moon, clear as the sun, who is to be feared like an army with flags?
(See NAS)

Isaiah 37:27
Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded; they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as a field of corn before it is grown up.
(See NIV)

Isaiah 37:30
This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from the same; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
(WEB NAS RSV NIV)

Isaiah 44:12
The iron-worker is heating the metal in the fire, giving it form with his hammers, and working on it with his strong arm: then for need of food his strength gives way, and for need of water he becomes feeble.
(See NIV)

Ezekiel 16:7
I caused you to multiply as that which grows in the field, and you increased and grew great, and you attained to excellent ornament; your breasts were fashioned, and your hair was grown; yet you were naked and bare.
(WEB)

Hosea 11:8
"How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.
(See RSV)

Nahum 2:10
She is empty, void, and waste. The heart melts, the knees knock together, their bodies and faces have grown pale.
(See NIV)

Subtopics

Grows

Related Terms

Side-growth (1 Occurrence)

Spontaneous (5 Occurrences)

Rank (42 Occurrences)

Root (54 Occurrences)

Mowing (1 Occurrence)

Plant (92 Occurrences)

Room (174 Occurrences)

Planting (57 Occurrences)