peri · fruit

What it means

peri (פְּרִי) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fruit”.

What a tree or a plant bears. Figuratively, the result of something, or children ("fruit of the womb").

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What a tree or the land produces, which is eaten.
2. The children who are born; or what comes out of what someone does.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Fruit: what a tree or plant bears; figuratively, the result of something, and children (“fruit of the womb”). It comes from פָּרָה, “to bear fruit”.

• Trees bearing fruit according to their kind Genesis 1:11
• “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat” Genesis 3:2
• “The fruit of the womb”: children Genesis 30:2Psalms 127:3Deuteronomy 28:4
• “Gives its fruit in its season” Psalms 1:3
• The first years of a planted tree Leviticus 19:23
• “Will eat its fruit”: what the tongue causes Proverbs 18:21

Historical and cultural background

Leviticus 19:23-25 orders that the fruit of a newly planted tree be regarded “as uncircumcised” for three years and not eaten; in the fourth year “all its fruit shall be holy”, and in the fifth it may be eaten.

How we translate it

“Fruit” 116 times, “fruits” 2, “fruitful” 1. This edition sets פְּרִי הָאֲדָמָה = “the fruit of the ground” (Deuteronomy 26:2).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• fruit ×116
• fruits ×2
• fruitful ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×9
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×8
• Numbers×3
• Deuteronomy×21
• 2 Kings×2
• Nehemiah×3
• Psalms×11
• Proverbs×10
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Song of Songs×5
• Isaiah×9
• Jeremiah×11
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×11
• Hosea×5
• Joel×1
• Amos×3
• Micah×2
• Zechariah×1
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 1:11

  And Elohim said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit according to its kind, that has its seed in it, on the earth.” And it was so.

• Genesis 1:12

  And the earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed according to its kind, and trees bearing fruit that has its seed in it, according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good.

• Genesis 1:29

  And Elohim said, “Look, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree that has fruit yielding seed; it will be food for you.

• Genesis 3:2

  And the woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;

• Genesis 3:3

  but from the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden Elohim has said, ‘You shall not eat from it, and you shall not touch it, or you will die.’”

• Genesis 3:6

  And the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was desirable for gaining insight; and she took of its fruit and ate, and she gave also to her husband with her, and he ate.

• Genesis 4:3

  And it happened at the end of some days that Cain brought from the fruit of the ground an offering to YHWH.

• Genesis 30:2

  Jacob’s anger burned against Rachel, and he said, “Am I in the place of Elohim, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?”

• Exodus 10:15

  They covered the surface of all the land, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left; and nothing green remained, neither on the trees nor in the plants of the field, in all the land of Egypt.

• Leviticus 19:23

  And when you come into the land and plant any tree for food, you shall regard its fruit as uncircumcised; three years it shall be uncircumcised to you; it shall not be eaten.

• Leviticus 19:24

  And in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, an offering of praise to YHWH.

• Leviticus 19:25

  And in the fifth year you may eat its fruit, that it may increase its yield for you. I am YHWH your Elohim.

• Leviticus 23:40

  And you shall take for yourselves on the first day the fruit of splendid trees, branches of palm trees, and boughs of leafy trees, and willows of the brook, and you shall rejoice before YHWH your Elohim seven days.

• Leviticus 25:19

  And the land will give its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live securely on it.

• Leviticus 26:4

  then I will give your rains in their season, and the land will give its yield, and the tree of the field will give its fruit.

• Leviticus 26:20

  And your strength will be spent in vain, and your land will not give its yield, and the tree of the land will not give its fruit.

• Leviticus 27:30

  And every tithe of the land, of the seed of the land or of the fruit of the tree, is YHWH’s; it is holy to YHWH.

• Numbers 13:20

  and what the land is like, whether it is rich or poor, whether there are trees in it or not. Be strong and take some of the fruit of the land.” Now the days were the days of the first ripe grapes.

• Numbers 13:26

  And they went and came to Moses and to Aaron and to all the community of the sons of Israel in the wilderness of Paran, at Kadesh; and they brought back word to them and to all the community, and showed them the fruit of the land.

• Numbers 13:27

  And they told him, and said, “We came to the land to which you sent us, and indeed it flows with milk and honey, and this is its fruit.

• Deuteronomy 1:25

  They took in their hands some of the fruit of the land and brought it down to us, and they brought back word to us and said, “The land that YHWH our Elohim is giving us is good.”

• Deuteronomy 7:13

  He will love you, bless you, and multiply you; he will bless the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, your grain, your new wine, and your oil, the offspring of your cattle and the young of your flock, on the land that he swore to your fathers to give you.

• Deuteronomy 26:2

  that you shall take some of the first of all the fruit of the ground that you bring from your land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you, and you shall put it in the basket and go to the place that YHWH your Elohim chooses to make his name dwell there.

• Deuteronomy 26:10

  And now, look, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground that you have given me, YHWH.” And you shall set it down before YHWH your Elohim and bow down before YHWH your Elohim.

• Deuteronomy 28:4

  Blessed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground and the fruit of your livestock, the offspring of your herds and the young of your flock.

• Deuteronomy 28:11

  And YHWH will make you abound in good things, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, on the land that YHWH swore to your fathers to give you.

• Deuteronomy 28:18

  Cursed shall be the fruit of your womb and the fruit of your ground, the offspring of your herds and the young of your flock.

• Deuteronomy 28:33

  The fruit of your ground and all your labor a people that you have not known will eat; and you will be only oppressed and crushed all the days.

• Deuteronomy 28:42

  All your trees and the fruit of your ground the cricket will take possession of.

• Deuteronomy 28:51

  And it will eat the fruit of your livestock and the fruit of your ground until you are destroyed; it will not leave you grain, new wine, or oil, the offspring of your herds or the young of your flock, until it has made you perish.

• Deuteronomy 28:53

  And you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom YHWH your Elohim has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you.

• Deuteronomy 30:9

  And YHWH your Elohim will make you abound in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for YHWH will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers,

• 2 Kings 19:29

  And this shall be for you the sign: this year you will eat what grows of itself, and in the second year what springs from that; and in the third year sow and reap, and plant vineyards and eat their fruit.

• 2 Kings 19:30

  And what has escaped of the house of Judah, what is left, will again take root downward and bear fruit upward.

• Nehemiah 9:36

  Look, we are slaves today; and the land that you gave to our fathers to eat its fruit and its good things, look, we are slaves on it.

• Nehemiah 10:35

  and to bring the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree, year after year, to the house of YHWH;

• Nehemiah 10:37

  and the first of our dough, and our contributions, and the fruit of every tree, new wine and oil, we will bring to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our Elohim; and the tithe of our ground to the Levites; and they, the Levites, are the ones who receive the tithe in all the cities of our labor.

• Psalms 1:3

  He will be like a tree planted by streams of water, that gives its fruit in its season, and its leaf does not wither; and all that he does prospers.

• Psalms 21:10

  Their fruit you will destroy from the earth, and their offspring from among human beings.

• Psalms 58:11

  And human beings will say, “Surely there is fruit for the righteous; surely there is Elohim who judges in the earth.”

And 79 more times.