to bear/lead
phero describes bringing or carrying persons and things, producing fruit, and being conveyed or borne along in Scripture.
The attested uses most often concern actively bringing or carrying a person, object, or matter to a destination or recipient. The verb also describes producing fruit, passive movement or conveyance by an outside force, and bearing a load, reproach, or sustaining all things.
Senses in use
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Bring or carry to a person or place · dominant
Active forms describe taking something or someone to a recipient or destination: in Acts 14:13 the APB renders the priest bringing bulls and garlands to the gates, while in Luke 5:18 men carry a paralyzed man on a bed in order to bring him in. The same movement appears with a cloak in 2 Timothy 4:13, fish in John 21:10, a colt in Mark 11:7, and an accusation in Acts 25:18.
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Produce fruit · common
The term is used of fruit produced by seed or a branch. In Mark 4:8 the APB renders seed in good soil as bearing thirty, sixty, and a hundred, and John 15:2 contrasts a branch not bearing fruit with one bearing fruit that is pruned for more.
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Be conveyed or driven along · occasional
Passive forms depict something being moved or conveyed rather than acting as the mover: Acts 2:2 describes a strong wind being borne, and Acts 27:15 describes the ship and its occupants being driven along. In 2 Peter 1:17 and 2 Peter 1:18, a voice is borne or conveyed, while 1 Peter 1:13 speaks of grace being brought to its recipients.
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Bear a burden or endure what is laid on one · occasional
The term can mark carrying what rests upon someone. In Luke 23:26 the APB renders Simon carrying the cross behind Jesus, and Hebrews 13:13 speaks of bearing reproach; Hebrews 1:3 also describes bearing all things.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB variously uses “bring,” “carry,” “bear,” “borne,” “conveyed,” and “driven along.” These are verse-level renderings rather than a word-by-word alignment.