'Grew' in the Bible
And he went in to Hagar, and she conceived. And [when] she saw that she had conceived, then her mistress grew small in her eyes.
And the child grew and was weaned. And Abraham made a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
And God was with the boy, and he grew and lived in the wilderness. And he became {an expert with a bow}.
And the boys grew up. And Esau [was] a skilled hunter, a man of the field, but Jacob [was] a peaceful man, living [in] tents.
and on the vine [were] three branches. And as it budded, its blossoms came up, [and] its clusters of grapes grew ripe.
And the boy grew, and she brought him to the daughter of Pharaoh, and he became her son, and she called his name Moses, and she said, "Because I drew him out from the water."
And Jeshurun grew fat, and he kicked; you grew fat, you bloated, and you became obstinate; and he abandoned God, his maker, and he scoffed [at] the rock of his salvation.
And it happened, when the {Israelites} grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor but never drove them out completely.
And it happened, when Israel grew strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, but they never totally drove them out.
Moreover, that entire generation was gathered to their ancestors, and another generation grew up after them who did not know Yahweh or the work he had done for Israel.
Gilead's wife also bore for him sons; and the sons of [his] wife grew up and drove Jephthah away, and they said to him, "You will not inherit the house of our father because you [are] the son of another woman."
The woman bore a son, and she called him Samson; the boy grew big, and Yahweh blessed him.
And because she nagged him day after day with her words, and pestered him, {his soul grew impatient to the point of death}.
Yahweh took note of Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters, while the young man Samuel grew up with Yahweh.
And Samuel grew up, and Yahweh was with him. {He did not allow any of his prophecies to go unfulfilled}.
but the poor [man] had nothing except for one small ewe lamb which he had bought. He had nurtured her, and she grew up with him and with his children together. She used to eat from his morsel and drink from his cup, and she used to lie in his lap and became like a daughter for him.
Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, the advisor of David, from his city Giloh, while he offered the sacrifices. The conspiracy {grew in strength}, and the people [were] going and {increasing} with Absalom.
There [was] war again for [the] Philistines with Israel, and David and his servants with him went down, and they fought [the] Philistines, and David grew weary.
He stood up and struck down the Philistines until his hand grew tired and his hand clung to the sword, and Yahweh brought about a great victory on that day. Then the army returned back to him only for stripping [the dead].
{In no time} the heavens grew black [with] clouds and wind, and there was heavy rain. Ahab rode and he went to Jezreel,
The child grew older, and it happened one day that he went out to his father [and] to the reapers.
And Jehoshaphat {grew greater and greater}, and he built fortresses and storage cities in Judah.
And Jehoiada grew old and full of days, and he died; [he was] one hundred and thirty years old at his death.
But on account of his strength his heart grew proud unto destruction. And he acted unfaithfully against Yahweh his God and went into the temple of Yahweh to offer an incense offering on the altar.
For Mordecai [was] high-ranking in the {king's palace} and his fame spread throughout all the provinces as {Mordecai grew more and more powerful}.
(for from my childhood he {grew up with} me like a father, and from my mother's womb I guided her),
My heart grew hot inside me; in my sighing a fire burned. [Then] I spoke with my tongue,
Then they were glad because they grew silent, so he guided them to their desired harbor.
The king of Babylon heard their report and his hands grew slack. Anxiety has seized him, fear and pain like the [woman who] gives birth.
Grow up; I will make you like a plant of the field." And you grew up, and you became tall and {reached full womanhood}. [Your] breasts were formed, and your hair had grown, but you [were] naked and bare.
The tree grew and it became strong, and its height reached to heaven, and {it was visible to the end of the whole earth}.
The tree that you saw, which grew and became strong and its height reached to heaven and {it was visible to the end of the whole earth},
{Immediately} the word was fulfilled {concerning} Nebuchadnezzar, and he was expelled from {human society} and he ate grass like oxen, and his body was bathed with the dew of heaven until his hair [was] like [the hair of] an eagle and his nails grew like bird's [claws].
And the he-goat grew {exceedingly great}, and {at the height of its power} the great horn was broken, and four conspicuous horns came up in place of it toward the four winds of heaven.
{And from one of them} came forth horn, {a little one}, and it grew exceedingly toward the south, and toward the east, and toward the beautiful land.
And it grew up to the host of heaven, and it threw down to the ground some of the host and some of the stars and trampled them.
And I myself, Daniel, alone saw this great vision, and [as a result] {no strength was left in me} and {my complexion grew deathly pale}, and I did not retain any strength.
{And when the sun rose}, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah's head and he grew faint. {And he asked that he could die} and said, "My death [is] better than my life!"
But Yahweh said, "You are troubled about the plant, for which you did not labor nor cause it to grow. {It grew up in a night and it perished in a night}!
And I got rid of three shepherds in one month, for {I grew impatient} with them, and {they also became tired of me}.
And other [seed] fell in the midst of the thorn plants, and the thorn plants grew up with [it] [and] choked it.
It is like a mustard seed that a man took [and] sowed in his own garden, and it grew and became a tree, and the birds of the sky nested in its branches."