King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER G5052
Transliteration: telesphoreō
Phonetic Spelling: (tel-es-for-eh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to bring fruit to perfection, to bear perfect offspring
Meaning: to bring fruit to perfection, to bear perfect offspring
τελεσφορέω, τελεσφόρω; (τελεσφόρος, from τέλος and φέρω); to bring to (perfection or) maturity (namely, καρπούς): Luke 8:14. (Used alike of fruits, and of pregnant women and animals bringing their young to maturity; 4 Macc. 13:19; Theophrastus, Geoponica, Philo, Diodorus, Josephus, others; (Psalm 64:10 () Symm.).)
Word Summary
telesphoreō: to bring fruit to perfection, to bear perfect offspring
Original Word: τελεσφορέωTransliteration: telesphoreō
Phonetic Spelling: (tel-es-for-eh'-o)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to bring fruit to perfection, to bear perfect offspring
Meaning: to bring fruit to perfection, to bear perfect offspring
Strong's Concordance
produce maturity, bring fruit to perfection. From a compound of telos and phero; to be a bearer to completion (maturity), i.e. To ripen fruit (figuratively) -- bring fruit to perfection.
see GREEK telos
see GREEK phero
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 5052: τελεσφορέωτελεσφορέω, τελεσφόρω; (τελεσφόρος, from τέλος and φέρω); to bring to (perfection or) maturity (namely, καρπούς): Luke 8:14. (Used alike of fruits, and of pregnant women and animals bringing their young to maturity; 4 Macc. 13:19; Theophrastus, Geoponica, Philo, Diodorus, Josephus, others; (Psalm 64:10