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Lexicon :: Strong's G4129 - plēthynō

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πληθύνω
Transliteration
plēthynō (Key)
Pronunciation
play-thoo'-no
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From another form of πλῆθος (G4128)
mGNT
12x in 8 unique form(s) TR
12x in 9 unique form(s) LXX
161x in 43 unique form(s)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 6:279,866

Strong’s Definitions

πληθύνω plēthýnō, play-thoo'-no; from another form of G4128; to increase (transitively or intransitively):—abound, multiply.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x

The KJV translates Strong's G4129 in the following manner: multiply (11x), abound (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 12x
The KJV translates Strong's G4129 in the following manner: multiply (11x), abound (1x).

  1. to increase, to multiply

    1. to be increased, (be multiplied) multiply

  2. to be increased, to multiply

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
πληθύνω plēthýnō, play-thoo'-no; from another form of G4128; to increase (transitively or intransitively):—abound, multiply.
STRONGS G4129:
πληθύνω; future πληθύνω; 1 aorist optative 3 person singular πληθῦναι (2 Corinthians 9:10 Rec.); passive, imperfect ἐπληθυνομην; 1 aorist ἐπληθυνθην; (from πληθύς fullness); Aeschyl, Aristotle, Herodian, Geoponica; the Sept. very often for רָבָה, רִבָּה, הִרְבָּה, sometimes for רָבַב;
1. transitive, to increase, to multiply: 2 Corinthians 9:10; Hebrews 6:14 (from Genesis 22:17); passive, to be increased (be multiplied) multiply: Matthew 24:12; Acts 6:7; Acts 7:17; Acts 9:31; Acts 12:24; τίνι (A. V. be multiplied to one i. e.) be richly allotted to, 1 Peter 1:2; 2 Peter 1:2; Jude 1:2 (Daniel 3:31 (Daniel 3:98); Daniel 6:25, Theod.; Clement of Rome, 1 Cor. 1 inscr. (also Martyr. Polycarp, inscr., Apostolic Constitutions, inscr.)).
2. intransitive, to be increased, to multiply: Acts 6:1.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
22:17
Daniel
6:25
Matthew
24:12
Acts
6:1; 6:7; 7:17; 9:31; 12:24
2 Corinthians
9:10; 9:10
Hebrews
6:14
1 Peter
1:2
2 Peter
1:2
Jude
1:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G4129 matches the Greek πληθύνω (plēthynō),
which occurs 161 times in 148 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 3 (Gen 1:22–2Sa 22:36)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:22 - God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 1:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:28 - God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply! Fill the earth and subdue it! Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that moves on the ground."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:16 - To the woman he said, "I will greatly increase your labor pains; with pain you will give birth to children. You will want to control your husband, but he will dominate you."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:5 - But the LORD saw that the wickedness of humankind had become great on the earth. Every inclination of the thoughts of their minds was only evil all the time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:17 - The flood engulfed the earth for forty days. As the waters increased, they lifted the ark and raised it above the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:18 - The waters completely overwhelmed the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:17 - Bring out with you all the living creatures that are with you. Bring out every living thing, including the birds, animals, and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth. Let them increase and be fruitful and multiply on the earth!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:1 - Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:7 - But as for you, be fruitful and multiply; increase abundantly on the earth and multiply on it."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:10 - I will greatly multiply your descendants," the LORD's angel added, "so that they will be too numerous to count."

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:2 - Then I will confirm my covenant between me and you, and I will give you a multitude of descendants."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:20 - As for Ishmael, I have heard you. I will indeed bless him, make him fruitful, and give him a multitude of descendants. He will become the father of twelve princes; I will make him into a great nation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:20 - So the LORD said, "The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so blatant

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - I will indeed bless you, and I will greatly multiply your descendants so that they will be as countless as the stars in the sky or the grains of sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the strongholds of their enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:4 - I will multiply your descendants so they will be as numerous as the stars in the sky, and I will give them all these lands. All the nations of the earth will pronounce blessings on one another using the name of your descendants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 26:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:24 - The LORD appeared to him that night and said, "I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:3 - May the sovereign God bless you! May he make you fruitful and give you a multitude of descendants! Then you will become a large nation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:12 - You can make the bride price and the gift I must bring very expensive, and I'll give whatever you ask of me. Just give me the young woman as my wife!"

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:11 - Then God said to him, "I am the sovereign God. Be fruitful and multiply! A nation - even a company of nations - will descend from you; kings will be among your descendants!

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:12 - After some time Judah's wife, the daughter of Shua, died. After Judah was consoled, he left for Timnah to visit his sheepshearers, along with his friend Hirah the Adullamite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 47:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:27 - Israel settled in the land of Egypt, in the land of Goshen, and they owned land there. They were fruitful and increased rapidly in number.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:4 - He said to me, 'I am going to make you fruitful and will multiply you. I will make you into a group of nations, and I will give this land to your descendants as an everlasting possession.'

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:16 - the Angel who has protected me from all harm - bless these boys. May my name be named in them, and the name of my fathers Abraham and Isaac. May they grow into a multitude on the earth."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:7 - The Israelites, however, were fruitful, increased greatly, multiplied, and became extremely strong, so that the land was filled with them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:10 - Come, let's deal wisely with them. Otherwise they will continue to multiply, and if a war breaks out, they will ally themselves with our enemies and fight against us and leave the country."

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:20 - So God treated the midwives well, and the people multiplied and became very strong.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:3 - But I will harden Pharaoh's heart, and although I will multiply my signs and my wonders in the land of Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:9 - The LORD said to Moses, "Pharaoh will not listen to you, so that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt."

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:16 - The more years there are, the more you may make its purchase price, and the fewer years there are, the less you must make its purchase price, because he is only selling to you a number of years of produce.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:9 - I will turn to you, make you fruitful, multiply you, and maintain my covenant with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:54 - You must divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families. To a larger group you must give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group you must give a smaller inheritance. Everyone's inheritance must be in the place where his lot falls. You must inherit according to your ancestral tribes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:10 - The LORD your God has increased your population to the point that you are now as numerous as the very stars of the sky.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:3 - Pay attention, Israel, and be careful to do this so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in number - as the LORD, God of your ancestors, said to you, you will have a land flowing with milk and honey.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:13 - He will love and bless you, and make you numerous. He will bless you with many children, with the produce of your soil, your grain, your new wine, your oil, the offspring of your oxen, and the young of your flocks in the land which he promised your ancestors to give you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:22 - He, the God who leads you, will expel the nations little by little. You will not be allowed to destroy them all at once lest the wild animals overrun you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:13 - when your cattle and flocks increase, when you have plenty of silver and gold, and when you have abundance of everything,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17 - You must not take for yourself anything that has been placed under judgment. Then the LORD will relent from his intense anger, show you compassion, have mercy on you, and multiply you as he promised your ancestors.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:16 - Moreover, he must not accumulate horses for himself or allow the people to return to Egypt to do so, for the LORD has said you must never again return that way.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 17:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:17 - Furthermore, he must not marry many wives lest his affections turn aside, and he must not accumulate much silver and gold.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:11 - The LORD will greatly multiply your children, the offspring of your livestock, and the produce of your soil in the land which he promised your ancestors he would give you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 28:63

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:63 - This is what will happen: Just as the LORD delighted to do good for you and make you numerous, he will take delight in destroying and decimating you. You will be uprooted from the land you are about to possess.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:3 - but I took your father Abraham from beyond the Euphrates and brought him into the entire land of Canaan. I made his descendants numerous; I gave him Isaac,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:29 - If only these men were under my command, I would get rid of Abimelech!" He challenged Abimelech, "Muster your army and come out for battle!"

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:24 - When the people saw him, they praised their god, saying, "Our god has handed our enemy over to us, the one who ruined our land and killed so many of us!"

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:12 - As she continued praying to the LORD, Eli was watching her mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:2 - It was quite a long time - some twenty years in all - that the ark stayed at Kiriath Jearim. All the people of Israel longed for the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:19 - While Saul spoke to the priest, the panic in the Philistines' camp was becoming greater and greater. So Saul said to the priest, "Withdraw your hand!"

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:10 - But Nabal responded to David's servants, "Who is David, and who is this son of Jesse? This is a time when many servants are breaking away from their masters!

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:11 - She replied, "In that case, let the king invoke the name of the LORD your God so that the avenger of blood may not kill! Then they will not destroy my son!" He replied, "As surely as the LORD lives, not a single hair of your son's head will fall to the ground."

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:36 - You give me your protective shield; your willingness to help enables me to prevail.

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