Quick Definition
be fruitful
Strong's Definition
to bear fruit (literally or figuratively)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: bear, bring forth (fruit), (be, cause to be, make) fruitful, grow, increase.
TWOT Reference: 1809
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
פָּרָה (pa.rah) — be fruitful. 1) to bear fruit, be fruitful, branch off 1a) (Qal) to bear fruit, be fruitful 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to cause to bear fruit 1b2) to make fruitful 1b3) to show fruitfulness, bear fruit Also means: pa.ra (פָּרָא "be fruitful" H6500)
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · פְּרִי
Stage | verb qal | ≈ יצא · צמח
to grow, to sprout = process by which a branch grows out of the stump or the root of a tree, or by which a plant grows directly out of the soil
Stage | verb qal
to bear, to cause to grow, to cause to sprout = causative process by which a plant causes a branch to grow out of its roots
Quantity | verb qal, verb hif | ≈ מלא · רבה · שׁרץ
to be fruitful, to flourish, to increase literally: to sprout; hence; = process by which humans, animals, or plants produce much offspring, ► and so grow in number and strength
GEN 1:22 · GEN 1:28 · GEN 8:17 · GEN 9:1 · GEN 9:7 · GEN 26:22 · GEN 35:11 · GEN 47:27 · GEN 49:22 · GEN 49:22 · EXO 1:7 · EXO 23:30 · PSA 128:3 · ISA 17:6 · ISA 32:12 · JER 3:16 · JER 23:3 · EZK 19:10 · EZK 36:11 · HOS 13:15
Quantity | verb hif | ≈ רבה
to make fruitful, to make flourish, to cause to increase literally: to cause to sprout; hence: = causative action by which a deity causes humans to produce much offspring, ► and so grow in number and strength
GEN 17:6 · GEN 17:20 · GEN 28:3 · GEN 41:52 · GEN 48:4 · LEV 26:9 · PSA 105:24
1 GEN 49:22 · GEN 49:22 MT בֵּן פֹּרָת | RSV NRSV ESV "fruitful bough" NJB "fruitful plant" REB "fruitful tree" CEV "fruitful vine" | NJPS "wild ass" GNT "wild donkey" | LXX "υἱὸς ηὑξημέμος" (= "grown son") VUL "filius adcrescens" (= "son growing up")
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[פָּרָה] vb. bear fruit, be fruitful Qal of men and animals
of vine
Hiph. cause to bear fruit
make fruitful
shew fruitfulness, bear fruit
base