καρποφορέω
λέγεις, ἃ δὲ λέγεις ἕνεκα τοῦ λαβεῖν λέγεις → you speak, but you say what you say for the sake of gain (Menander, fr. 776)
English (LSJ)
A bear fruit, X.Vect.1.3, Arist.GA755b10, Ph.1.602, al., Orph.Fr.255: metaph., of virtue, Ph.1.154; τῷ θεῷ Ep.Rom. 7.4; also τῷ θανάτῳ ib.5:—Med., Ep.Col.1.6, BMus.Inscr.918 (Halic.):—Pass., Ptol.Tetr.80.
German (Pape)
[Seite 1329] Früchte tragen; Xen. Vect. 1, 3; Theophr. u. a. Sp.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
καρποφορέω: φέρω, παράγω καρπόν, Ξεν. Πόροι 1, 3, Ἀριστ. π. Ζ. Γεν. 3. 5, 2, κτλ.
French (Bailly abrégé)
-ῶ :
porter ou produire des fruits.
Étymologie: καρποφόρος.
English (Strong)
from καρποφόρος; to be fertile (literally or figuratively): be (bear, bring forth) fruit(-ful).
English (Thayer)
καρποφόρω; 1st aorist ἐκαρποφόρησα; present passive participle καρποφορουμενος; (καρποφόρος, which see); to bear fruit; (Vulg. fructifico; Columella (50 A.D.>), Tertullian);
a. properly, (Xenophon, Aristotle), Theophrastus, de hist. plant. 3,3, 7; Diodorus 2,49): χόρτον, φυτά, to bear, bring forth, deeds: thus of men who show their knowledge of religion by their conduct, ἐν (for R G L Tr marginal reading WH marginal reading ἐν (cf. Buttmann, 103 (90), see εἷς, 4a.)) τριάκοντα etc. namely, καρποις, T Tr text WH text (see ἐν, I:5f.); ἐν παντί ἔργῳ ἀγαθῷ, τίνι (dative commodi]) to one who reaps the fruit, i. e. fruit acceptable to him, τῷ Θεῷ, τῷ θανάτῳ, i. e. (without the figure) to produce works rewarded with death, to bear fruit of oneself, Lightfoot at the passage).
