What Does Luke 13:6 Mean in the King James?
He spake also this parable; A certain man had a fig tree planted in his vineyard; and he came and sought fruit thereon, and found none.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
Being planted in a vineyard does not make fruit appear; the search exposes the gap between a life’s setting and its yield.
THE MEANING
You may be surrounded by conditions for growth, and yet the fruit being sought is absent. The verse holds the difference between being planted and bearing what your life can produce, with the absence stated plainly.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
Being placed in a good setting means the fruit is already there.
THE ROOT
καρπός
karpos
GROWS FROM
καρπ-
fruit; produce; yield
English “fruit” can sound like a thing the tree possesses, but καρπός names the yield, what growth brings into view. Its word family can name both bearing fruit and being fruitless, so the same root frames either the emergence or absence of what a living thing produces.
ALSO GROWS
karpophoreō: to bear fruit; to produce
καρποφορέω
The noun’s root becomes a verb for bearing, shifting attention from where the tree stands to what it brings forth.
akarpos: fruitless; unfruitful
ἄκαρπος
The negative form adds ἀ- to the same καρπ- root, giving Greek a direct word for the absence the man finds.
THE PATTERN
A living thing’s planting is not its fruit; its life is known by what it brings forth.
And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth his fruit in his season; his leaf also shall not wither; and whatsoever he doeth shall prosper.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.But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,THE THREAD
But that on the good ground are they, which in an honest and good heart, having heard the word, keep it, and bring forth fruit with patience.Luke 8:15 uses the same Greek word καρπός (karpos, fruit) and joins fruit-bearing with patience. It opens the image further: fruit is visible yield, and its emergence can unfold over time.
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