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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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.
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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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Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
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Until the spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest.
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Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.
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I beheld, and, lo, the fruitful place was a wilderness, and all the cities thereof were broken down at the presence of the LORD, and by his fierce anger.
H6509
And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and increase.
H2233
He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field; he placed it by great waters, and set it as a willow tree.
H6509
Thy mother is like a vine in thy blood, planted by the waters: she was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.
H6500
Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the wind of the LORD shall come up from the wilderness, and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall spoil the treasure of all pleasant vessels.
G2593
Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.
G2592
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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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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