'Fruitful' in the Bible

God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”

God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

Bring out with you every living thing of all flesh that is with you, birds and animals and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, that they may breed abundantly on the earth, and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.

“As for you, be fruitful and multiply;Populate the earth abundantly and multiply in it.”

I will make you exceedingly fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings will come forth from you.

As for Ishmael, I have heard you; behold, I will bless him, and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He shall become the father of twelve princes, and I will make him a great nation.

He moved away from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it; so he named it Rehoboth, for he said, “At last the Lord has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”

May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, that you may become a company of peoples.

God also said to him,“I am God Almighty;Be fruitful and multiply;A nation and a company of nations shall come from you,And kings shall come forth from you.

He named the second Ephraim, “For,” he said, “God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction.”

Now Israel lived in the land of Egypt, in Goshen, and they acquired property in it and were fruitful and became very numerous.

and He said to me, ‘Behold, I will make you fruitful and numerous, and I will make you a company of peoples, and will give this land to your descendants after you for an everlasting possession.’

“Joseph is a fruitful bough,A fruitful bough by a spring;Its branches run over a wall.

But the sons of Israel were fruitful and increased greatly, and multiplied, and became exceedingly mighty, so that the land was filled with them.

I will drive them out before you little by little, until you become fruitful and take possession of the land.

So I will turn toward you and make you fruitful and multiply you, and I will confirm My covenant with you.

And He caused His people to be very fruitful,And made them stronger than their adversaries.

A fruitful land into a salt waste,Because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it.

And sow fields and plant vineyards,And gather a fruitful harvest.

Your wife shall be like a fruitful vineWithin your house,Your children like olive plantsAround your table.

And He will destroy the glory of his forest and of his fruitful garden, both soul and body,And it will be as when a sick man wastes away.

Gladness and joy are taken away from the fruitful field;In the vineyards also there will be no cries of joy or jubilant shouting,No treader treads out wine in the presses,For I have made the shouting to cease.

Yet gleanings will be left in it like the shaking of an olive tree,Two or three olives on the topmost bough,Four or five on the branches of a fruitful tree,Declares the Lord, the God of Israel.

Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine,

“I brought you into the fruitful landTo eat its fruit and its good things.But you came and defiled My land,And My inheritance you made an abomination.

I looked, and behold, the fruitful land was a wilderness,And all its cities were pulled downBefore the Lord, before His fierce anger.

“Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock out of all the countries where I have driven them and bring them back to their pasture, and they will be fruitful and multiply.

“So gladness and joy are taken awayFrom the fruitful field, even from the land of Moab.And I have made the wine to cease from the wine presses;No one will tread them with shouting,The shouting will not be shouts of joy.

‘Your mother was like a vine in your vineyard,Planted by the waters;It was fruitful and full of branchesBecause of abundant waters.

I will multiply on you man and beast; and they will increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited as you were formerly and will treat you better than at the first. Thus you will know that I am the Lord.

Shepherd Your people with Your scepter,The flock of Your possessionWhich dwells by itself in the woodland,In the midst of a fruitful field.Let them feed in Bashan and GileadAs in the days of old.

and yet He did not leave Himself without witness, in that He did good and gave you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness.”

But if I am to live on in the flesh, this will mean fruitful labor for me; and I do not know which to choose.