Strong's Concordance telesphoreó: to bring fruit to perfection, hence to bear perfect offspring Original Word: τελεσφορέωPart of Speech: Verb Transliteration: telesphoreó Phonetic Spelling: (tel-es-for-eh'-o) Short Definition: I bring to maturity Definition: I bring to maturity. 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). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 5052: τελεσφορέωτελεσφορέω, 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 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 Forms and Transliterations τελεσφορούσι τελεσφορουσιν τελεσφοροῦσιν τελεταί τελετάς τελευταία τελευταίοις telesphorousin telesphoroûsinLinks Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel TextsEnglishman's Concordance Strong's Greek 50521 Occurrence τελεσφοροῦσιν — 1 Occ. 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 |