Be fruitful
פָּרָאStrong’s H6509para (pa-ra)
Appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Para is the Hebrew word usually translated “fruitful”, “make fruitful” and “fruit-bearer”. It appears in 28 verses of the Old Testament.
“And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.”
Meaning
- (Hiphil) to bear fruit, be fruitful
How it's translated
- be fruitful 5
- and they will be fruitful 3
- and i will make fruitful 3
- fruitful 3
- a fruit-bearer 2
- and we will be fruitful 1
- and may he make fruitful you 1
- he has made fruitful me 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 14
- Isaiah 4
- Exodus 2
- Psalms 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Ezekiel 2
8 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 1:28And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
- Genesis 8:17Bring forth with thee every living thing that is with thee, of all flesh, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth; that they may breed abundantly in the earth, and be fruitful, and multiply upon the earth.
- Genesis 9:1And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.
- Genesis 9:7And you, be ye fruitful, and multiply; bring forth abundantly in the earth, and multiply therein.
- Genesis 17:6And I will make thee exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of thee, and kings shall come out of thee.
- Genesis 17:20And as for Ishmael, I have heard thee: Behold, I have blessed him, and will make him fruitful, and will multiply him exceedingly; twelve princes shall he beget, and I will make him a great nation.
Hebrew dictionary
פָּרָא para · be fruitful
(Hiphil) to bear fruit, be fruitful Another spelling of pa.rah (פָּרָה "be fruitful" H6509)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “fruitful” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FRUITFUL, adjective
- Very productive; producing fruit in abundance; as fruitful soil; a fruitful tree; a fruitful season.
- Prolific; bearing children; not barren.“Be fruitful and multiply -” Genesis 1:22
- Plenteous; abounding in any thing.
- Productive of any thing; fertile; as fruitful in expedients.
All definitions
- Producing in abundance; generating; as fruitful in crimes.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.