GreekG0175Adjective

ἄκαρπος

akarpos

7Occurrences
G0175Strong's #
AdjectivePart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

barren (literally or figuratively)

from G1 (Α) (as a negative particle) and G2590 (καρπός);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
unfruitful, barren: figuratively.
LXX: (צַלְמָוֶת)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Adjective

Morphology Code

G:A

Full Description

Greek Adjective

Occurrences

ἄκαρπος appears 7 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

1 Corinthians
1
2 Peter
1
Ephesians
1
Jude
1
Matthew
1
Mark
1
Titus
1

Key Passages

1 Corinthians 14:14BSB

For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.

2 Peter 1:8BSB

For if you possess these qualities and continue to grow in them, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Ephesians 5:11BSB

Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.

Jude 1:12BSB

These men are hidden reefs in your love feasts, shamelessly feasting with you but shepherding only themselves. They are clouds without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.

Matthew 13:22BSB

The seed sown among the thorns is the one who hears the word, but the worries of this life and the deceitfulness of wealth choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.