To bear out (literally or figuratively)
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G1627 is a Greek verb for carrying or bringing something out, leading a person outside, or producing an outcome. Luke 15:22 uses it when the father orders servants to bring out the best robe for the returned son, making outward movement serve public welcome and restored belonging.
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G1627 is a Greek verb for carrying or bringing something out, leading a person outside, or producing an outcome. Luke 15:22 uses it when the father orders servants to bring out the best robe for the returned son, making outward movement serve public welcome and restored belonging.
The BSB source-word alignment has 8 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include [and] led him (1), [land that] produces (1), [people] brought (1), Bring (1), carried [her] out (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Mark 8:23. Its strongest book concentrations include Acts (4), 1 Timothy (1), Hebrews (1), Luke (1).
G1627 is a Greek verb for carrying or bringing something out, leading a person outside, or producing an outcome. Luke 15:22 uses it when the father orders servants to bring out the best robe for the returned son, making outward movement serve public welcome and restored belonging. Mark 8:23 describes Jesus taking a blind man by the hand and leading him out of the village before healing him in stages, a scene that requires respect for Jesus' particular action rather than a universal method.
Hebrews 6:8 applies the verb to land that produces thorns and thistles and faces judgment, placing what comes forth within a warning about perseverance. Acts also uses G1627 for bodies carried out after death and sick people brought into streets. The word opens welcome, privacy, mortality, care, fruit, and accountability while insisting that context identifies what is brought out and why.
G1627 marks movement from within to outside or the production of what emerges. A robe may be brought out, a person led beyond a village, bodies carried for burial, sick people placed outdoors, possessions removed, or land may bring forth a crop.
But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.
The father has the best robe brought out immediately as part of his public welcome for the returned son.
So He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village. Then He spit on the man’s eyes and placed His hands on him. “Can you see anything?” He asked.
Jesus personally leads a blind man outside the village before a gradual and attentive healing encounter.
But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.
Hebrews warns that land bringing forth thorns and thistles is unproductive and approaching judgment.
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Greek word. Conveys physical removal or production outward; emphasizes the act of bringing forth from interior to exterior space.
Conveys physical removal or production outward; emphasizes the act of bringing forth from interior to exterior space.
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
7 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
I bring out, carry out
Read verseI bring out, carry out
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
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How this verb appears across 8 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
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G1627 asks what is brought from the inside to the outside. In Luke 15, the father brings household resources into public view so that welcome is not merely spoken. The robe, ring, sandals, and feast restore the returned son to visible belonging. Mark 8 presents a different movement. Jesus leads a blind man away from the village, remains personally engaged, asks what he perceives, and continues the healing encounter.
The narrative honors attention and process, but it does not make isolation or staged improvement a rule for disability ministry. Hebrews 6 moves from transport to production: cultivated land reveals what it brings forth. The warning summons perseverance and fruitful response to grace, not anxious grading of every wounded believer. Acts' burial scenes add mortality and communal responsibility.
Communities bring out possessions, gifts, consequences, care, and sometimes hidden harm. Faithful discernment therefore asks whether what emerges reflects generous welcome, careful accompaniment, truthful accountability, and respect for embodied people. It refuses both image management and quick judgments about another person's fruit.
Luke.15.22
G1627 joins an outward prefix to the verb for carrying. Its range includes bringing an object out, leading a person outside, carrying the dead away, placing people outdoors, and bringing forth produce from land.
Old Testament households bring out garments and provisions, communities carry the dead for burial, and prophets use field fruit as a moral image. Jesus embodies restorative welcome and attentive care, while Hebrews retains the covenant seriousness of a cultivated life.