Dictionary entry

Wax

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

waks:

(1) Noun (donagh): Used only in a simile of melting (Ps 22:14;68:2;97:5;Mic 1:4).

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(2) A now archaic verb, meaning "to grow," used freely in English Versions of the Bible as a translation of various terms in Greek and Hebrew. The past participle in the King James Version and the English Revised Version is "waxen," except inGe 18:12. There (and throughout in the American Standard Revised Version) the form is "waxed."