Enlarge
Bible Usage:
- enlarge used 10 times.
- enlarged used 11 times.
- enlargement used once.
- enlargeth used 3 times.
- enlarging used once.
- First Reference: Genesis 9:27
- Last Reference: Matthew 23:5
Dictionaries:
- Included in Eastons: No
- Included in Hitchcocks: No
- Included in Naves: No
- Included in Smiths: No
- Included in Websters: Yes
- Included in Strongs: Yes
- Included in Thayers: Yes
- Included in BDB: Yes
Strongs Concordance:
ENL'ARGE, verb transitive enlarj. [from large.] To make greater in quantity or dimensions; to extend in limits, breadth or side; to expand in bulk. Every man desires to enlarge his possessions; the prince, his dominions. and the landholder, his farm. The body is enlarged by nutrition, and a good man rejoices to enlarge the sphere of his benevolence.
God shall enlarge Japhet. Genesis 9:27.
1. To dilate; to expand; as with joy or love.
O ye, Corinthians, our mouth is open to you, our
heart is enlarged.
2. To expand; to make more comprehensive. Science enlarges the mind.
3. To increase in appearance; to magnify to the eye; as by a glass.
4. To set at liberty; to release from confinement or pressure.
5. To extend in a discourse; to diffuse in eloquence.
They enlarged themselves on this subject.
In this application, the word is generally intransitive.
6. To augment; to increase; to make large or larger, in a general sense; a word of general application.
To enlarge the heart, may signify to open and expand in good will; to make free, liberal and charitable.
ENL'ARGE, verb intransitive enlarj. To grow large or larger; to extend; to dilate; to expand. A plant enlarges by growth; an estate enlarges by good management; a volume of air enlarges by rarefaction.
1. To be diffuse in speaking or writing; to expatiate. I might enlarge on this topic.
2. To exaggerate.
ENL'ARGED, participle passive Increased in bulk; extended in dimension; expanded; dilated; augmented; released from confinement or straits.
ENL'ARGEDLY, adverb With enlargement.
ENL'ARGEMENT, noun Increase of size or bulk, real or apparent; extension of dimensions or limits; augmentation; dilatation; expansion. The enlargement of bulk may be by accretion or addition; of dimensions, by spreading, or by additions to length and breadth; of a sum or amount, by addition, collection or accumulation.
1. Expansion or extension, applied to the mind, to knowledge, or to the intellectual powers, by which the mind comprehends a wider range of ideas or thought.
2. Expansion of the heart, by which it becomes more benevolent and charitable.
3. Release from confinement, servitude, distress or straits. Esther 4:14.
4. Diffusiveness of speech or writing; an expatiating on a particular subject; a wide range of discourse or argument.
ENL'ARGER, noun He or that which enlarges, increases, extends or expands; an amplifier.