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Strong's #2593 - καρποφόρος
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- fruit bearing, fruitful, productive
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καρπόφορ-ος (parox.), ον,
fruit-bearing, fruitful, of trees, Hdt. 1.193, 2.156, X. Cyr. 6.2.22, etc.; of lands, Λιβύα, πεδία, Pi. P. 4.6, E. Hel. 1485 (lyr.); τῇ κ. γαίῃ Sammelb. 6598 (iii A. D.), al.; of Demeter, τὴν κ. βασίλειαν Ar. Ra. 384 (lyr.), cf. Paus. 8.53.7, CIG 4082 (Pessinus), IG 12(5).226 (Paros), SIG 820.5 (Ephesus, i A. D.): hence of Agrippina, IG 12(2).212 (Mytilene), IGRom. 4.1300 (Aeolis, in fem. -φόρα) ; κ. καιροί Acts 14:17.
καρποφόρος, καρποφόρον (καρπός and φέρω), fruit-bearing, fruitful, productive: Acts 14:17. (Pindar, Xenophon, Theophrastus, Diodorus, the Sept..)
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In the Median parchment P Saïd Khan 1 A.13 (B.C. 88) a vineyard is provided μετὰ ὕδατος καὶ ἀκρο ̣δρύοις καρποφόροις τε καὶ ἀκάρποις, ";with water and vine-stocks, both those in bearing and those not."; Cf. also Preisigke 991.5 (A.D. 290) τὸ ἐπ [άγαθ ]ον γόνιμ [ον ] νέον ὕδωρ σὺν τῇ καρπ [οφό ]ρ [ῳ γ ]αίῃ. For the adj. as an epithet of Demeter cf. the Ephesian inscr. Syll 655.5 (A.D. 83) Δήμητρι Καρποφόρῳ καὶ Θεσμοφόρῳ.
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