Quick Definition
be fruitful
Strong's Definition
to bear fruit
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: be fruitful.
TWOT Reference: 1805
Outline of Biblical Usage
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
פָּרָא (pa.ra) — be fruitful. (Hiphil) to bear fruit, be fruitful Another spelling of pa.rah (פָּרָה "be fruitful" H6509)
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