Greek word · G2164
εὐφορέω
euphoreō
be fruitful
To bear well, be productive, yield good crops. A compound of εὖ (well) and φέρω (bear, carry). It is used of land or plants that are fertile.
Appears once in the Greek New Testament. ·
What it means
From G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
In depth
- Range of meaning
To bear well, be productive, yield good crops. A compound of εὖ (well) and φέρω (bear, carry). It is used of land or plants that are fertile.
- Against the English
KJV “brought forth plentifully,” BSB “produced an abundance,” YLT “brought forth well.” All are accurate. Some paraphrases make the man the one who “had” or “produced” the good harvest, which blurs the Greek point that the land did the producing.
- Used elsewhere in the period
It occurs only here in the New Testament. BDAG cites it from Greek writers from the Hippocratic corpus onward, for fertile ground or productive plants.
Where it appears
Luke · 1
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Luke 12:16 εὐφόρησεν brought forth abundantly
Then He told them a parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced an abundance.
Here: “Bore well / yielded a big crop”: literally “carried well” (eu = well, pherō = bear). This is its only use in the New Testament. The past tense presents the bumper harvest as a single event, the trigger for everything that follows.
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