Multiply

MUL'TIPLY, verb transitive [Latin multiplico; multus, many, and plico, to fold or double.]

1. To increase in number; to make more by natural generation or production, or by addition; as, to multiply men, horses or other animals; to multiply evils.

I will multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt. [[Exodus 7#3|Exodus 7:3]].

Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience.

2. In arithmetic, to increase any given number as many times as there are units in any other given number. Thus 7x8=56, that is, 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56.

MUL'TIPLY, verb intransitive To grow or increase in number.

Be fruitful and multiply [[Genesis 1#22|Genesis 1:22]].

When men began to multiply on the face of the earth. [[Genesis 6#1|Genesis 6:1]].

1. To increase in extent; to extend; to spread.

The word of God grew and multiplied. [[Acts 12#1|Acts 12:1]].