International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Wax

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Wax


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waks:

(1) Noun (דּונג, dōnagh): Used only in a simile of melting (; ; ; ). See WRITING.

(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 in . There (and throughout in the American Standard Revised Version) the form is “waxed.”