To set or put together, join or unite, as one thing or sum to another, in an agreegate; as, add three to four, the sum is seven.

To unite in idea or consideration; to subjoin. To what has been alledged, let this argument be added.

To increase number. ' . Thou shalt add three cities more of refuge. Deuteronomy 19:9.

To augment. Rehoboam said, I will add to your yoke.7 Kings 12:14. Ye shall not add to the word which I command you. Deuteronomy 4:2. As here used, the verb is intransitive, but there may be an ellipsis. To add to, is used in scripture, as equivalent to give, or bestow upon. Genesis 30:24; Matthew 6:33. In Galatians 2:6, the word is understood to signify instruction. “In conference they added nothing to me.” In narration, he or they added, is elliptical; he added words, or what follows, or he continued his discourse. In general, when used of things, add implies a principal thing, to which a smaller is to be annexed, as a part of the whole sum, mass, or number.