Word study
Produce
11 Hebrew and 4 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: produce, produced, produces, producing. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “produce” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- פְּרִי perîfruittranslated this way 13 times of its 119 uses · Strong’s H6529Noun · Translated: fruit 82, produce 11, offspring 5, fruitful 3Full study and all 107 verses →
Deuteronomy 7:13 He will love you and bless you and multiply you. He will bless the fruit of your womb and the produce of your land— your grain, new wine, and oil, the young of your herds and the lambs of your flocks— in the land that He swore to your fathers to give you.
Psalm 105:35 They devoured every plant in their land and consumed the produce of their soil.
- תְּבוּאָה tebûâhproduct, revenuetranslated this way 10 times of its 41 uses · Strong’s H8393Noun · Translated: harvest 13, produce 10, crops 3, gain 3Full study and all 40 verses →
Exodus 23:10 For six years you are to sow your land and gather its produce,
Leviticus 23:39 On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, after you have gathered the produce of the land, you are to celebrate a feast to the LORD for seven days. There shall be complete rest on the first day and also on the eighth day.
- עָשָׂה âsâhdo, maketranslated this way 8 times of its 2,478 uses · Strong’s H6213Verb · Translated: done 292, made 265, make 143, did 112Full study and all 2,206 verses →
- יְבוּל yebûlproducetranslated this way 7 times of its 13 uses · Strong’s H2981Noun · Translated: produce 7, crops 2, possessions 1, harvest 1Full study and all 13 verses →
Leviticus 26:4 I will give you rains in their season, and the land will yield its produce, and the trees of the field will bear their fruit.
Deuteronomy 11:17 or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you.
- יָצָא yâtsâgo or come outtranslated this way 2 times of its 1,035 uses · Strong’s H3318Verb · Translated: brought 108, went 103, go 82, came 78Full study and all 975 verses →
Genesis 1:12 The earth produced vegetation: seed-bearing plants according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
Exodus 8:18 The magicians tried to produce gnats using their magic arts, but they could not. And the gnats remained on man and beast.
- כֹּחַ kôachstrength, powertranslated this way 2 times of its 118 uses · Strong’s H3581Noun · Translated: strength 54, power 35, produce 2, powerless 2Full study and all 114 verses →
Genesis 4:12 When you till the ground, it will no longer yield its produce to you. You will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth.”
Job 31:39 if I have devoured its produce without payment or broken the spirit of its tenants,
- נָתַן nâthangive, put, settranslated this way 2 times of its 1,957 uses · Strong’s H5414Verb · Translated: give 326, gave 206, given 187, put 135Full study and all 1,785 verses →
Genesis 38:9 But Onan knew that the offspring would not belong to him; so whenever he would sleep with his brother’s wife, he would spill his seed on the ground so that he would not produce offspring for his brother.
- מַעֲשֶׂה maăsehdeed, worktranslated this way 2 times of its 223 uses · Strong’s H4639Noun · Translated: work 71, works 38, deeds 8, made 7Full study and all 211 verses →
Exodus 23:16 You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.
- תְּנוּבָה tenûbâhfruit, producetranslated this way 2 times of its 5 uses · Strong’s H8570Noun · Translated: fruit 2, produce 1, lack produce 1, crops 1Full study and all 5 verses →
Deuteronomy 32:13 He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag,
Lamentations 4:9 Those slain by the sword are better off than those who die of hunger, who waste away, pierced with pain because the fields lack produce.
- עָבוּר âbûrproduce, yieldtranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s H5669Noun · Translated: produce 2Full study and all 2 verses →
Joshua 5:11 The day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.
Joshua 5:12 And the day after they had eaten from the produce of the land, the manna ceased. There was no more manna for the Israelites, so that year they began to eat the crops of the land of Canaan.
- יִתְרוֹן yithrônadvantage, profittranslated this way 2 times of its 10 uses · Strong’s H3504Noun · Translated: gain 3, exceeds 2Full study and all 9 verses →
Ecclesiastes 5:9 The produce of the earth is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.
Ecclesiastes 10:10 If the axe is dull and the blade unsharpened, more strength must be exerted, but skill produces success.
Greek words (New Testament)
- ποιέω poiéōI do, maketranslated this way 8 times of its 544 uses · Strong’s G4160Verb · Translated: do 50, done 44, doing 40, made 34Full study and all 494 verses →
Matthew 3:8 Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance.
Luke 3:8 Produce fruit, then, in keeping with repentance. And do not begin to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
- κατεργάζομαι katergázomaiI work out, produce, accomplishtranslated this way 6 times of its 22 uses · Strong’s G2716Verb · Translated: produced 3, brings 2, who do 2Full study and all 22 verses →
Romans 5:3 Not only that, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance;
2 Corinthians 4:17 For our light and momentary affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory that is far beyond comparison.
- καρποφορέω karpophoréōI bear fruittranslated this way 3 times of its 8 uses · Strong’s G2592Verb · Translated: bearing fruit 3, produce a crop 2, bears fruit 1, produces a crop 1Full study and all 8 verses →
Mark 4:20 Still others are like the seeds sown on good soil. They hear the word, receive it, and produce a crop — thirtyfold, sixtyfold, or a hundredfold.”
Luke 8:15 But the seeds on good soil are those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, cling to it, and by persevering produce a crop.
- δίδωμι dídōmiI offer, givetranslated this way 2 times of its 403 uses · Strong’s G1325Verb · Translated: give 110, given 107, gave 72, gives 14Full study and all 370 verses →
Matthew 13:8 Still other seed fell on good soil and produced a crop — a hundredfold, sixtyfold, or thirtyfold.
Mark 4:8 Still other seed fell on good soil, where it sprouted, grew up, and produced a crop — one bearing thirtyfold, another sixtyfold, and another a hundredfold.”
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Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.