פְּרִיpᵉrîy

fruit

Pronunciation: per-ee' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H6529

Meanings

1. of produce in general (Genesis 4:3; Deuteronomy 7:13; Numbers 13:20)

2. = offspring (Genesis 30:2; Deuteronomy 7:13; Lamentations 2:20)

3. figurative of fruit of actions, i.e. their consequences (Isaiah 3:10; Psalms 58:12; Hosea 10:13)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 119 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 1:11 Then God said, “Let the land sprout with vegetation—every sort of seed-bearing plant, and trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. These seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came.” And that is what happened.
  • Genesis 1:12 The land produced vegetation—all sorts of seed-bearing plants, and trees with seed-bearing fruit. Their seeds produced plants and trees of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.
  • Genesis 1:29 Then God said, “Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food.
  • Genesis 3:2 “Of course we may eat fruit from the trees in the garden,” the woman replied.
  • Genesis 3:3 “It’s only the fruit from the tree in the middle of the garden that we are not allowed to eat. God said, ‘You must not eat it or even touch it; if you do, you will die.’”
  • Genesis 3:6 The woman was convinced. She saw that the tree was beautiful and its fruit looked delicious, and she wanted the wisdom it would give her. So she took some of the fruit and ate it. Then she gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it, too.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).