THE FULL ARTICLE — from the International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), general editor James Orr — public domain, printed whole.

gros (`araphel): Used twice with "darkness" in Isa 60:2; Jer 13:16. In the New Testament the verb pachuno, "to make fat," is applied twice to "making gross" the heart (Mt 13:15; Ac 28:27).

See GREASE.