φέρω pherō

Greek word for “to bear/lead” · Strong’s G5342 · used 66 times in 60 verses

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Meaning

φέρω; to bear; 1. to bear, carry: with accusative, 24:1, (see Westc., in l);

How it is translated

Glosses given for pherō in context, with how often each is used:

• brought 10
• do bring 10
• bringing 6
• bearing 6
• bring 5
• may bear 3
• bears 2
• will bring 2
• having brought 2
• driven along 2
• do lead 1
• lead 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

John 15 (5), Mark 9 (3), 2 Peter 1 (3), Matthew 14 (2), Mark 6 (2), Mark 11 (2), Mark 12 (2), John 21 (2), Acts 4 (2), Acts 5 (2)

Forms

• φέρουσιν 6
• ἤνεγκεν 5
• φέρετε 5
• ἔφερον 4
• φέροντες 4
• φέρετέ 3
• ἤνεγκαν 3
• φέρει 3
• φέρε 3
• ἠνέχθη 2

Words used with it

Words that share verses with pherō more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• καρπός karpos “fruit” 7
• κλῆμα klēma “branch” 3
• τιμή timē “honor” 4
• εὐθέως eutheōs “immediately” 4
• ἄπιστος apistos “unbelieving” 3
• τίθημι tithēmi “to place” 4
• μένω menō “to stay” 4
• δόξα doxa “glory” 4
• καθίζω kathizō “to seat” 3
• δίδωμι didōmi “to give” 5
• παρά para “from/with/beside” 4
• πίναξ pinax “platter” 2

Key verses

The verses using pherō that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 17:17 — Then Jesus answered and said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I suffer you? bring him hither to me.
• John 15:2 — Every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away: and every branch that beareth fruit, he purgeth it, that it may bring forth more fruit.
• John 15:4 — Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me.
• John 15:5 — I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
• John 15:16 — Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye…
• Romans 9:22 — What if God, willing to shew his wrath, and to make his power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath fitted to destruction:
• Hebrews 1:3 — Who being the brightness of his glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged…
• Hebrews 6:1 — Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of…
• 1 Peter 1:13 — Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
• 2 Peter 1:17 — For he received from God the Father honour and glory, when there came such a voice to him from the excellent glory, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well…
• 2 Peter 1:21 — For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.
• Revelation 21:24 — And the nations of them which are saved shall walk in the light of it: and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.