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 compareDe 7:22;Pr 16:21;Job 10:16the King James Version;Job 12:23;Nu 18:30;De 7:13;Eze 22:12in the Old Testament, andJoh 3:30;1Co 3:6;Col 2:19;Eph 4:16in the New Testament.
Russell Benjamin Miller