Meaning
Increase in'-kres, (noun), in-kres' (verb): Employed in the English Bible both as verb and as noun, and in both cases to represent a number of different words in the original. As a verb it is used in the ordinary sense of the term. As a noun it is usually used of plant life, or of the herds and flocks, to denote the fruitage or the offspring; more rarely of money, to denote the interest. As examples of the different terms translated by this word, students who read Hebrew or Greek may compare Deu 7:22, Pro 16:21, Job 10:16 the King James Version; Job 12:23, Num 18:30, Deu 7:13, Eze 22:12 in the Old Testament, and Joh 3:30, 1Co 3:6, Col 2:19, Eph 4:16 in the New Testament.
Russell Benjamin Miller
