'Mounting' in the Bible

In mounting terror, he cried out, "How scary this place is! This is nothing less than God's house and the gateway to heaven!"

Feeling mounting terror and distress, Jacob divided the people who were with him into two groups, doing the same with the flocks, the cattle, and the camels.

Later, when Reuben returned to the cistern, Joseph wasn't there! In mounting panic, he tore his clothes,

He reported to his brothers, "My money has been returned! It's right here in my sack!" Trembling with mounting consternation, each of them asked one another, "What is God doing to us?"