פְּרִי
pe.ri
fruit
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word פְּרִי (pe.ri), Strong's number H6529, is a term with a straightforward meaning: fruit. Its primary association is with agriculture and the land, suggesting its focus is on the produce of trees, plants, and agricultural endeavors. In the Bible, this word appears 119 times, demonstrating its importance in the narrative and thematic fabric of scripture. Its usage covers various contexts, including descriptions of God's blessings, the fertility of the land, and the cycles of nature. The term is frequently linked to God's creative power and provision, underscoring the connection between human labor, divine intervention, and sustenance. The significance of the word lies in its representation of abundance, growth, and the cycles of life. By exploring the occurrences of פְּרִי, readers can gain a deeper understanding of God's relationship with the natural world and the people who inhabit it.
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Occurrences in Scripture
119 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
“Behold, we are servants today, and as for the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good, behold, we are servants in it.
Nehemiah 10:35and to bring the first fruits of our ground, and the first fruits of all fruit of all kinds of trees, year by year, to Yahweh’s house;
Nehemiah 10:37and that we should bring the first fruits of our dough, our wave offerings, the fruit of all kinds of trees, and the new wine and the oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take the tithes in all the cities of our tillage.
Psalms 1:3He will be like a tree planted by the streams of water, that produces its fruit in its season, whose leaf also does not wither. Whatever he does shall prosper.
Psalms 21:10You will destroy their descendants from the earth, their posterity from among the children of men.
Psalms 58:11so that men shall say, “Most certainly there is a reward for the righteous. Most certainly there is a God who judges the earth.”
Psalms 72:16Abundance of grain shall be throughout the land. Its fruit sways like Lebanon. Let it flourish, thriving like the grass of the field.
Psalms 104:13He waters the mountains from his rooms. The earth is filled with the fruit of your works.
Psalms 105:35ate up every plant in their land, and ate up the fruit of their ground.
Psalms 107:34and a fruitful land into a salt waste, for the wickedness of those who dwell in it.
Psalms 107:37sow fields, plant vineyards, and reap the fruits of increase.
Psalms 127:3Behold, children are a heritage of Yahweh. The fruit of the womb is his reward.
Psalms 132:11Yahweh has sworn to David in truth. He will not turn from it: “I will set the fruit of your body on your throne.
Psalms 148:9mountains and all hills; fruit trees and all cedars;
Proverbs 1:31Therefore they will eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own schemes.
Proverbs 8:19My fruit is better than gold, yes, than fine gold, my yield than choice silver.
Proverbs 11:30The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.
Proverbs 12:14A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth. The work of a man’s hands shall be rewarded to him.
Proverbs 13:2By the fruit of his lips, a man enjoys good things, but the unfaithful crave violence.
Proverbs 18:20A man’s stomach is filled with the fruit of his mouth. With the harvest of his lips he is satisfied.
Proverbs 18:21Death and life are in the power of the tongue; those who love it will eat its fruit.
Isaiah 14:29Don’t rejoice, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for out of the serpent’s root an adder will emerge, and his fruit will be a fiery flying serpent.
Proverbs 27:18Whoever tends the fig tree shall eat its fruit. He who looks after his master shall be honored.
Proverbs 31:16She considers a field, and buys it. With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard.
Proverbs 31:31Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!
Ecclesiastes 2:5I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.
Song of Solomon 2:3As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, his fruit was sweet to my taste.
Song of Solomon 4:13Your shoots are an orchard of pomegranates, with precious fruits, henna with spikenard plants,
Song of Solomon 4:16Awake, north wind, and come, you south! Blow on my garden, that its spices may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and taste his precious fruits.
Song of Solomon 8:11Solomon had a vineyard at Baal Hamon. He leased out the vineyard to keepers. Each was to bring a thousand shekels of silver for its fruit.
Song of Solomon 8:12My own vineyard is before me. The thousand are for you, Solomon, two hundred for those who tend its fruit.
Isaiah 3:10Tell the righteous “Good!” For they shall eat the fruit of their deeds.
Isaiah 4:2In that day, Yahweh’s branch will be beautiful and glorious, and the fruit of the land will be the beauty and glory of the survivors of Israel.
Isaiah 10:12Therefore it will happen that when the Lord has performed his whole work on Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the willful proud heart of the king of Assyria, and the insolence of his arrogant looks.
Isaiah 13:18Their bows will dash the young men in pieces; and they shall have no pity on the fruit of the womb. Their eyes will not spare children.
Isaiah 27:9Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.
Isaiah 37:30“ ‘This shall be the sign to you. You will eat this year that which grows of itself, and in the second year that which springs from it; and in the third year sow and reap and plant vineyards, and eat their fruit.
Isaiah 37:31The remnant that is escaped of the house of Judah will again take root downward, and bear fruit upward.
Isaiah 65:21They will build houses and inhabit them. They will plant vineyards and eat their fruit.
Jeremiah 2:7I brought you into a plentiful land to eat its fruit and its goodness; but when you entered, you defiled my land, and made my heritage an abomination.
Jeremiah 6:19Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
Jeremiah 11:16Yahweh called your name, “A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit.” With the noise of a great roar he has kindled fire on it, and its branches are broken.
Jeremiah 12:2You have planted them. Yes, they have taken root. They grow. Yes, they produce fruit. You are near in their mouth, and far from their heart.
Jeremiah 17:8For he will be as a tree planted by the waters, who spreads out its roots by the river, and will not fear when heat comes, but its leaf will be green, and will not be concerned in the year of drought. It won’t cease from yielding fruit.
Jeremiah 17:10“I, Yahweh, search the mind. I try the heart, even to give every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.”
Jeremiah 21:14I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it will devour all that is around her.’ ”
Jeremiah 29:28because he has sent to us in Babylon, saying, The captivity is long. Build houses, and dwell in them. Plant gardens, and eat their fruit?” ’ ”
Jeremiah 32:19great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open to all the ways of the children of men, to give everyone according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;
Ezekiel 36:30I will multiply the fruit of the tree and the increase of the field, that you may receive no more the reproach of famine among the nations.
Lamentations 2:20“Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the children that they held and bounced on their knees? Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?