Ákarpos — G175

Definition

adjective

barren (literally or figuratively)

1. properly
2. metaphorically, not yielding what it ought to yield, (A. V. unfruitful)

Usually translated as

unfruitful, without fruit

Origin

from G1 (as a negative particle) and G2590

• A (G1)
• karpós (G2590)

Occurrences

Ákarpos occurs 7 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Matthew (1), Mark (1), 1 Corinthians (1), Ephesians (1), Titus (1), 2 Peter (1), Jude (1)

• Matthew 13:22 — He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful (ἄκαρπος).
• Mark 4:19 — And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful (ἄκαρπος).
• 1 Corinthians 14:14 — For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful (ἄκαρπος).
• Ephesians 5:11 — And have no fellowship with the unfruitful (ἀκάρποις) works of darkness, but rather reprove them.
• Titus 3:14 — And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful (ἄκαρποι).
• 2 Peter 1:8 — For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful (ἀκάρπους) in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Jude 1:12 — These are spots in your feasts of charity, when they feast with you, feeding themselves without fear: clouds they are without water, carried about of winds; trees whose fruit withereth, without fruit (ἄκαρπα), twice dead, plucked up by the roots;