maro’
English: Translation
To rear, raise, cultivate, maintain, or care for plants or animals so that they survive, multiply, mature, and increase one’s future resources.
Part of Speech
verb
Notes
Unlike merely feeding or tending, maro’ denotes productive stewardship whose purpose is propagation and increased stock.
Examples include:
- raising pigs
- breeding chickens
- tending fruit trees
- cultivating seed stock
- maintaining breeding animals
Semantic Core
To invest continuing care so something increases in value or number.
This is essentially the opposite side of tangro’.
One commits resources (tangro’)…
…then nurtures them (maro’)…
…until they produce returns.