Unfruitful

Usually translated “unfruitful” and “without fruit”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

• unfruitful 6
• without fruit 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

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

7 books in all.

• 2 Peter 1:8In contextFor 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.
• Jude 1:12In contextThese 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;
• Matthew 13:22He 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.
• Mark 4:19And 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.
• 1 Corinthians 14:14For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.
• Ephesians 5:11And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

How the English word “unfruitful” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.