This verb primarily means to make or become long, extended in space or time. In Mark 4:27, Jesus uses it in his parable of the growing seed to describe the mysterious process of growth—the seed sprouts and grows while the farmer sleeps, ignorant of how it happens. The multilingual glosses consistently emphasize growth (Spanish crezca, French grandir, German lang werden). Classical usage includes lengthening time, prolonging speech, or physical extension, with the agricultural metaphor being particularly vivid in Mark's context.