καρπός
karpos (G2590)
fruit
AI Word Study
The Greek word καρπός (karpos) generally refers to fruit, which encompasses a range of edible produce from plants and trees, such as berries, seeds, and grains. Its association with agriculture means it often describes tangible products of farming or harvesting. This broad definition is seen across its 66 occurrences in the Bible. Throughout the biblical text, καρπός is used in various contexts, from everyday descriptions of daily life to more symbolic uses in narratives and teachings. In practical terms, it likely referred to the food people consumed, their primary source of sustenance. However, its occurrence in spiritual and metaphoric contexts highlights its significance beyond mere physical nourishment. The word transcends a simplistic view of fruit, suggesting instead the tangible results of one's efforts and the fruit of their life, actions, and decisions. This nuance emphasizes the interconnectedness of spiritual and practical living in the Bible. As a fundamental concept, καρπός serves as a tangible representation of the consequences of one's actions and choices. Its widespread occurrence throughout the biblical text underscores its importance as a metaphor for personal growth, success, and the outcomes of human endeavors.
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“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
By their fruits you will know them. Do you gather grapes from thorns, or figs from thistles?
Even so, every good tree produces good fruit; but the corrupt tree produces evil fruit.
A good tree can’t produce evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree produce good fruit.
Every tree that doesn’t grow good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.
“Either make the tree good, and its fruit good, or make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt; for the tree is known by its fruit.
Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
But when the blade sprang up and produced fruit, then the darnel weeds appeared also.
Seeing a fig tree by the road, he came to it, and found nothing on it but leaves. He said to it, “Let there be no fruit from you forever!” Immediately the fig tree withered away.
When the season for the fruit came near, he sent his servants to the farmers, to receive his fruit.
They told him, “He will miserably destroy those miserable men, and will lease out the vineyard to other farmers, who will give him the fruit in its season.”
“Therefore I tell you, God’s Kingdom will be taken away from you, and will be given to a nation producing its fruit.
Others fell among the thorns, and the thorns grew up, and choked it, and it yielded no fruit.
Others fell into the good ground, and yielded fruit, growing up and increasing. Some produced thirty times, some sixty times, and some one hundred times as much.”
But when the fruit is ripe, immediately he puts in the sickle, because the harvest has come.”
Jesus told it, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again!” and his disciples heard it.
When it was time, he sent a servant to the farmer to get from the farmer his share of the fruit of the vineyard.
She called out with a loud voice and said, “Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb!
Therefore produce fruits worthy of repentance, and don’t begin to say among yourselves, ‘We have Abraham for our father;’ for I tell you that God is able to raise up children to Abraham from these stones!
Even now the ax also lies at the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and thrown into the fire.”
For there is no good tree that produces rotten fruit; nor again a rotten tree that produces good fruit.
For each tree is known by its own fruit. For people don’t gather figs from thorns, nor do they gather grapes from a bramble bush.
Other fell into the good ground, and grew, and produced one hundred times as much fruit.” As he said these things, he called out, “He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”
He reasoned within himself, saying, ‘What will I do, because I don’t have room to store my crops?’
He spoke this parable. “A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard, and he came seeking fruit on it, and found none.
He said to the vine dresser, ‘Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?’
If it bears fruit, fine; but if not, after that, you can cut it down.’ ”
At the proper season, he sent a servant to the farmers to collect his share of the fruit of the vineyard. But the farmers beat him, and sent him away empty.
He who reaps receives wages and gathers fruit to eternal life; that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.
Most certainly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains by itself alone. But if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Every branch in me that doesn’t bear fruit, he takes away. Every branch that bears fruit, he prunes, that it may bear more fruit.
Remain in me, and I in you. As the branch can’t bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you, unless you remain in me.
I am the vine. You are the branches. He who remains in me and I in him bears much fruit, for apart from me you can do nothing.
“In this my Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; and so you will be my disciples.
You didn’t choose me, but I chose you and appointed you, that you should go and bear fruit, and that your fruit should remain; that whatever you will ask of the Father in my name, he may give it to you.
Therefore, being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his body, according to the flesh, he would raise up the Christ to sit on his throne,
Now I don’t desire to have you unaware, brothers, that I often planned to come to you, and was hindered so far, that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among the rest of the Gentiles.
What fruit then did you have at that time in the things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of those things is death.
But now, being made free from sin and having become servants of God, you have your fruit of sanctification and the result of eternal life.
When therefore I have accomplished this, and have sealed to them this fruit, I will go on by way of you to Spain.
What soldier ever serves at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard, and doesn’t eat of its fruit? Or who feeds a flock, and doesn’t drink from the flock’s milk?
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith,
for the fruit of the Spirit is in all goodness and righteousness and truth,
being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.
But if I live on in the flesh, this will bring fruit from my work; yet I don’t know what I will choose.
Not that I seek for the gift, but I seek for the fruit that increases to your account.
The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.
All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.
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