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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)
Dictionary Aids

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 increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:28

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:28 - God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:16 - To the woman he said, “I will make your pains in childbearing very severe; with painful labor you will give birth to children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:5 - The LORD saw how great the wickedness of the human race had become on the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of the human heart was only evil all the time.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:17 - For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and as the waters increased they lifted the ark high above the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:18 - The waters rose and increased greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:17 - Bring out every kind of living creature that is with you—the birds, the animals, and all the creatures that move along the ground—so they can multiply on the earth and be fruitful and increase in number on it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:1 - Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 9:7 - As for you, be fruitful and increase in number; multiply on the earth and increase upon it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:10 - The angel added, “I will increase your descendants so much that they will be too numerous to count.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:2 - Then I will make my covenant between me and you and will greatly increase your numbers.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:20 - And as for Ishmael, I have heard you: I will surely bless him; I will make him fruitful and will greatly increase his numbers. He will be the father of twelve rulers, and I will make him into a great nation.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:20 - Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is so great and their sin so grievous

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 22:17 - I will surely bless you and make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and as the sand on the seashore. Your descendants will take possession of the cities of their enemies,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:4 - I will make your descendants as numerous as the stars in the sky and will give them all these lands, and through your offspring[fn] all nations on earth will be blessed,[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:24

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 26:24 - That night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you; I will bless you and will increase the number of your descendants for the sake of my servant Abraham.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:3 - May God Almighty[fn] bless you and make you fruitful and increase your numbers until you become a community of peoples.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:12 - Make the price for the bride and the gift I am to bring as great as you like, and I’ll pay whatever you ask me. Only give me the young woman as my wife.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:11 - And God said to him, “I am God Almighty[fn]; be fruitful and increase in number. A nation and a community of nations will come from you, and kings will be among your descendants.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 38:12 - After a long time Judah’s wife, the daughter of Shua, died. When Judah had recovered from his grief, he went up to Timnah, to the men who were shearing his sheep, and his friend Hirah the Adullamite went with him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 47:27 - Now the Israelites settled in Egypt in the region of Goshen. They acquired property there and were fruitful and increased greatly in number.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:4 - and said to me, ‘I am going to make you fruitful and increase your numbers. I will make you a community of peoples, and I will give this land as an everlasting possession to your descendants after you.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:16 - the Angel who has delivered me from all harm —may he bless these boys. May they be called by my name and the names of my fathers Abraham and Isaac, and may they increase greatly on the earth.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:7 - but the Israelites were exceedingly fruitful; they multiplied greatly, increased in numbers and became so numerous that the land was filled with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:10 - Come, we must deal shrewdly with them or they will become even more numerous and, if war breaks out, will join our enemies, fight against us and leave the country.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:20 - So God was kind to the midwives and the people increased and became even more numerous.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 7:3 - But I will harden Pharaoh’s heart, and though I multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:9 - The LORD had said to Moses, “Pharaoh will refuse to listen to you—so that my wonders may be multiplied in Egypt.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 25:16 - When the years are many, you are to increase the price, and when the years are few, you are to decrease the price, because what is really being sold to you is the number of crops.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:9 - “ ‘I will look on you with favor and make you fruitful and increase your numbers, and I will keep my covenant with you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:54 - Distribute the land by lot, according to your clans. To a larger group give a larger inheritance, and to a smaller group a smaller one. Whatever falls to them by lot will be theirs. Distribute it according to your ancestral tribes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:10 - The LORD your God has increased your numbers so that today you are as numerous as the stars in the sky.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:3

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 6:3 - Hear, Israel, and be careful to obey so that it may go well with you and that you may increase greatly in a land flowing with milk and honey, just as the LORD, the God of your ancestors, promised you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:13 - He will love you and bless you and increase your numbers. He will bless the fruit of your womb, the crops of your land—your grain, new wine and olive oil—the calves of your herds and the lambs of your flocks in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:22

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 7:22 - The LORD your God will drive out those nations before you, little by little. You will not be allowed to eliminate them all at once, or the wild animals will multiply around you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:13

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:13 - and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 13:17 - and none of the condemned things[fn] are to be found in your hands. Then the LORD will turn from his fierce anger, will show you mercy, and will have compassion on you. He will increase your numbers, as he promised on oath to your ancestors—

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:16 - The king, moreover, must not acquire great numbers of horses for himself or make the people return to Egypt to get more of them, for the LORD has told you, “You are not to go back that way again.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:17

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 17:17 - He must not take many wives, or his heart will be led astray. He must not accumulate large amounts of silver and gold.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:11 - The LORD will grant you abundant prosperity—in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your ground—in the land he swore to your ancestors to give you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:63

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:63 - Just as it pleased the LORD to make you prosper and increase in number, so it will please him to ruin and destroy you. You will be uprooted from the land you are entering to possess.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:3 - But I took your father Abraham from the land beyond the Euphrates and led him throughout Canaan and gave him many descendants. I gave him Isaac,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:29 - If only this people were under my command! Then I would get rid of him. I would say to Abimelek, ‘Call out your whole army!’ ”[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:24 - When the people saw him, they praised their god, saying, “Our god has delivered our enemy into our hands, the one who laid waste our land and multiplied our slain.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:12 - As she kept on praying to the LORD, Eli observed her mouth.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:2 - The ark remained at Kiriath Jearim a long time—twenty years in all. Then all the people of Israel turned back to the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:19 - While Saul was talking to the priest, the tumult in the Philistine camp increased more and more. So Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:10 - Nabal answered David’s servants, “Who is this David? Who is this son of Jesse? Many servants are breaking away from their masters these days.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:11 - She said, “Then let the king invoke the LORD his God to prevent the avenger of blood from adding to the destruction, so that my son will not be destroyed.” “As surely as the LORD lives,” he said, “not one hair of your son’s head will fall to the ground.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:36 - You make your saving help my shield; your help has made[fn] me great.

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