Genesis 1:22
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
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Fruitful
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Colossians 1:10
That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
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14 occurrences in 13 verses.
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פָּרָה
pârâh · paw-raw'
21 times translated as this KJV form30 total Strong's occurrences
to bear fruit (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: bear, bring forth (fruit), (be, cause to be, make) fruitful, grow, increase.
Strong's first: Genesis 1:22Strong's last: Ezekiel 19:10
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pᵉrîy · per-ee'
2 times translated as this KJV form119 total Strong's occurrences
fruit (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: bough, (first-)fruit(-ful), reward.
Strong's first: Psalms 107:34Strong's last: Psalms 148:9
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karpophoréō · kar-pof-or-eh'-o
1 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
to be fertile (literally or figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--be (bear, bring forth) fruit(-ful).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Colossians 1:10Strong's last: Colossians 1:10
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karpophóros · kar-pof-or'-os
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
fruitbearing (figuratively)
Strong's KJV usage: :--fruitful.
Strong's first: Acts 14:17Strong's last: Acts 14:17
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bên · bane
1 times translated as this KJV form4,878 total Strong's occurrences
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like father or brother), etc.)
Strong's KJV usage: afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-) ite, (anoint-) ed one, appointed to, ( ) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-) ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, (young) bullock, (young) calf, × came up in, child, colt, × common, × corn, daughter, × of first, firstborn, foal, very fruitful, postage, × in, kid, lamb, ( ) man, meet, mighty, nephew, old, ( ) people, rebel, robber, × servant born, × soldier, son, spark, steward, stranger, × surely, them of, tumultuous one, valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Isaiah 5:1Strong's last: Isaiah 5:1
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zeraʻ · zeh'-rah
1 times translated as this KJV form228 total Strong's occurrences
seed; figuratively, fruit, plant, sowing-time, posterity
Strong's KJV usage: × carnally, child, fruitful, seed(-time), sowing-time.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezekiel 17:5Strong's last: Ezekiel 17:5
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pârâʼ · paw-raw'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to bear fruit
Strong's KJV usage: be fruitful.
Strong's first: Hosea 13:15Strong's last: Hosea 13:15
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H6509
And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
H6509
And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
H6509
Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
H6509
And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
H6509
And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
H6509
And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
H6509
And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
H6509
And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now the LORD hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.
H6509
And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people;
H6509
And God said unto him, I am God Almighty: be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come out of thy loins;
H6509
And the name of the second called he Ephraim: For God hath caused me to be fruitful in the land of my affliction.
H6509
And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.
H6509
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
H6509
Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall:
H6509
And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.
H6509
For I will have respect unto you, and make you fruitful, and multiply you, and establish my covenant with you.
H6529
A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein.
H6509
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
H6529
Mountains, and all hills; fruitful trees, and all cedars:
H1121
Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
no direct Strong's tag
And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standardbearer fainteth.
H6509
Yet gleaning grapes shall be left in it, as the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries in the top of the uppermost bough, four or five in the outmost fruitful branches thereof, saith the LORD God of Israel.
no direct Strong's tag
Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
no direct Strong's tag
Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?
H6509
They shall lament for the teats, for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.
English meaning and historical usage.
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fruitful
FRUITFUL, adjective
1. Very productive; producing fruit in abundance; as fruitful soil; a fruitful tree; a fruitful season.
2. Prolific; bearing children; not barren.
Be fruitful and multiply - Genesis 1:22.
3. Plenteous; abounding in any thing.
4. Productive of any thing; fertile; as fruitful in expedients.
5. Producing in abundance; generating; as fruitful in crimes.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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