adjective
akarpos
Strong’sG175
unfruitful, barren
stem akarp-7 times in the New Testamentin 7 of 27 books5 of 26 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ἄ-καρπος, -ον,
[in LXX: Je 2:6 (צַלְמָוֶת), Wi 15:4, IV Mac 16:7;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G175 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
without fruit, barren, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἄ. ξύλον, ={ἀκακία}, LXX+2nd c.AD+
2 metaphorically, fruitless, unprofitable, πόνοςRefs 5th c.BC+. adverb -πωςRefs 5th c.BC+
II active, making barren, Refs 4th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | masculine singular | feminine singular | neuter singular | masculine plural | feminine plural | neuter plural |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| subject nominative | akarpos3×ἄκαρπος | akarpas | akarpem | akarpois1×ἄκαρποι | akarpais | akarpeim1×ἄκαρπα |
| object accusative | akarpon | akarpan | akarpoin1×ἀκάρπους | akarpain | ||
| direct address vocative | akarpor | akarpar | akarpoir | akarpair | ||
| of, belonging to genitive | akarpou | akarpau | akarpeu | akarpoiu | akarpaiu | akarpeiu |
| to, for dative | akarpo | akarpa | akarpe | akarpoi | akarpai | akarpei1×ἀκάρποις |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
akarp is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
akarpos“unfruitful”subjectnominative singular3×
Matthew 13:22… tou ploutou sumpnigatō ton logon, kai akarpos genotō.… choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
Mark 4:19… epithumiais eisporeuorōntais sumpnigalō ton logon, kai akarpos genotō.… choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.
1 Corinthians 14:14… mu proseuchotō, tos de nouos mu akarpos atō.… spirit prays, but my mind is unfruitful.
akarpois“unfruitful”subjectnominative plural1×
Titus 3:14… tain anankaiain chreiain, hina mē aleiō akarpois.… so that they will not be unfruitful.
akarpoin“unfruitful”objectaccusative plural1×
2 Peter 1:8“unfruitful”… huparcharōnteim kai pleonazarōnteim ouk argoin oude akarpoin katastēatō eis tan tou kuriou nu …… 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.
akarpeim“without fruit”subject or objectdirect plural1×
Jude 1:12“without fruit”… anudrais hupo anemoiu paraferorōntais, dendreim fthinopōrineim akarpeim dis apothnēskaranteim ekriziranteim,… without water, carried along by the wind; fruitless trees in autumn, twice dead after being uprooted.
akarpei“unfruitful”to, fordative plural1×
Ephesians 5:11“unfruitful”kai mē sunkoinōnavōr tei ergei tei akarpei teu skoteu, mallon de kai elenchavōr,Have no fellowship with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.