Lexical Summary akarpos: unfruitful Original Word: ἄκαρποςTransliteration: akarpos Phonetic Spelling: (ak'-ar-pos) Part of Speech: Adjective Short Definition: unfruitful Meaning: unfruitful Strong's Concordance without fruit, unfruitful. From a (as a negative particle) and karpos; barren (literally or figuratively) -- without fruit, unfruitful. see GREEK a see GREEK karpos Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 175: ἄκαρποςἄκαρπος, (καρπός) (from Aeschylus down), without fruit, barren; 1. properly: δένδρα, Jude 1:12. 2. metaphorically, not yielding what it ought to yield, (A. V. unfruitful): Matthew 13:22; Mark 4:19; destitute of good deeds, Titus 3:14; 2 Peter 1:8; contributing nothing to the instruction, improvement, comfort, of others, 1 Corinthians 14:14; by litotes pernicious, Ephesians 5:11 (Wis. 15:4; cf. Grimm on Wis. 1:11). |
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