Strong G175ἄκαρπος

unfruitful

Transliteration
akarpos
Pronunciation
ak'-ar-pos
Morphology
Greek Adjective

Definition

From G1 (as a negative particle) and G2590; barren (literally or figuratively): - without fruit unfruitful.

Detailed definition

ἄ-καρπος, -ον,
[in LXX: Jer.2:6 (צַלְמָוֶת), Wis.15:4, 4Ma.16:7;]
unfruitful, barren: figuratively, Mat.13:22, Mrk.4:19, 1Co.14:14, Eph.5:11, Tit.3:14, 2Pe.1:8, Ju 12.†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G175 appears in 7 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • unfruitful6
  • fruit1

First verses

  1. Matthew 13:22
    He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
  2. Mark 4:19
    And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.
  3. 1 Corinthians 14:14
    For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
  4. Ephesians 5:11
    And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
  5. Titus 3:14
    And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.
  6. 2 Peter 1:8
    For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
  7. Jude 1:12
    These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
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Detailed Greek dictionary
ἄκαρπ-ος, ον,
without fruit, barren, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 898.8, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 91c)]; ἄ. ξύλον, ={ἀκακία}, [LXX+2nd c.AD+ (LXX.Isa.41.19: with _genitive_, λίμνη ἄ. ἰχθύων 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 5.7.3.)]
2 metaphorically, fruitless, unprofitable, πόνος[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Bacchylides Lyricus “fragment” 7.5; λόγοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedrus” 277a; τὰ ἄ. 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Ethica Nicomachea” 1125a11)]. adverb -πως[Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 254.)]
II active, making barren, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 942, compare 1st c.BC(?): Maximus Astrologus Tyr. 5.4.)]