5052. telesphoreó

Lexicon

telesphoreó: To bring to completion, to bear fruit to maturity

Original Word: τελεσφορέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: telesphoreó
Pronunciation: tel-es-for-eh'-o
Phonetic Spelling: (tel-es-for-eh'-o)
KJV: bring fruit to perfection
NASB: bring fruit to maturity
Word Origin: [from a compound of G5056 (τέλος - end) and G5342 (φέρω - bring)]

1. to be a bearer to completion (maturity), i.e. to ripen fruit (figuratively)

Strong's Exhaustive 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

HELPS Word-studies

5052 telesphoréō (from 5056 /télos, "end-consummation" and 5342 /phérō, "to carry over") – properly, to bring to completion (maturation, consummation), emphasizing the "eternal carry-over" of this life into the afterlife (see 5056 /télos).

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
from telos and phoreó
Definition
to bring fruit to perfection, hence to bear perfect offspring
NASB Translation
bring...fruit to maturity (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

STRONGS NT 5052: τελεσφορέω

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.).)

Forms and Transliterations

τελεσφορούσι τελεσφορουσιν τελεσφοροῦσιν τελεταί τελετάς τελευταία τελευταίοις telesphorousin telesphoroûsin

Englishman's Concordance

Luke 8:14 V-PIA-3P
GRK: καὶ οὐ τελεσφοροῦσιν
NAS: of [this] life, and bring no
KJV: bring no fruit to perfection.
INT: and not do mature

Strong's Greek 5052
1 Occurrence

τελεσφοροῦσιν — 1 Occ.