5052. telesphoreó
Strong's Concordance
telesphoreó: to bring fruit to perfection, hence to bear perfect offspring
Original Word: τελεσφορέω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: telesphoreó
Phonetic Spelling: (tel-es-for-eh'-o)
Definition: to bring fruit to perfection, to bear perfect offspring
Usage: I bring to maturity.
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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.).)

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 telesphoroûsin
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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.









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