Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'increase' occurs 109 times in the standard works.

10 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'increase' in the standard works and contain 9.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 5 minutes to read the entire list.

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Num. 18:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 25:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 5:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)


Ezek. 36:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

 36:29 I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.

 36:30 And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.




1 Cor. 3:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 78 57 135
Gen. 1 4 5
Ex. 0 2 2
Lev. 9 0 9
Num. 3 0 3
Deut. 12 0 12
Judg. 2 0 2
1 Sam. 1 1 2
2 Sam. 0 1 1
1 Kgs. 0 1 1
1 Chr. 2 2 4
2 Chr. 2 1 3
Ezra 1 1 2
Neh. 1 0 1
Job 3 4 7
Ps. 9 5 14
Prov. 8 7 15
Eccl. 3 4 7
Isa. 4 5 9
Jer. 2 6 8
Lam. 0 1 1
Ezek. 11 5 16
Dan. 1 1 2
Hosea 1 3 4
Amos 0 1 1
Hab. 0 1 1
Zech. 2 1 3
NT 10 8 18
BM 14 1 15
DC 5 0 5
PGP 2 0 2
TOTAL 109 66 175

Ezek. 5:16
When I shall send upon them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break your staff of bread:

Ezek. 16:7
I have caused thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou hast increased and waxen great, and thou art come to excellent ornaments: thy breasts are fashioned, and thine hair is grown, whereas thou wast naked and bare.

Ezek. 16:26
Thou hast also committed fornication with the Egyptians thy neighbours, great of flesh; and hast increased thy whoredoms, to provoke me to anger.

Ezek. 18:8
He that hath not given forth upon usury, neither hath taken any increase, that hath withdrawn his hand from iniquity, hath executed true judgment between man and man,

Ezek. 18:13
Hath given forth upon usury, and hath taken increase: shall he then live? he shall not live: he hath done all these abominations; he shall surely die; his blood shall be upon him.

Ezek. 18:17
That hath taken off his hand from the poor, that hath not received usury nor increase, hath executed my judgments, hath walked in my statutes; he shall not die for the iniquity of his father, he shall surely live.

Ezek. 22:12
In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast greedily gained of thy neighbours by extortion, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord God.

Ezek. 23:14
And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

Ezek. 28:5
By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

Ezek. 34:27
And the tree of the field shall yield her fruit, and the earth shall yield her increase, and they shall be safe in their land, and shall know that I am the Lord, when I have broken the bands of their yoke, and delivered them out of the hand of those that served themselves of them.

Ezek. 36:11
And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezek. 36:29
I will also save you from all your uncleannesses: and I will call for the corn, and will increase it, and lay no famine upon you.

Ezek. 36:30
And I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine among the heathen.

Ezek. 36:37
Thus saith the Lord God; I will yet for this be inquired of by the house of Israel, to do it for them; I will increase them with men like a flock.

Ezek. 41:7
And there was an enlarging, and a winding about still upward to the side chambers: for the winding about of the house went still upward round about the house: therefore the breadth of the house was still upward, and so increased from the lowest chamber to the highest by the midst.

Ezek. 48:18
And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city.