to wear
phoreo describes wearing garments and bearing an image or sword in the supplied biblical uses.
The attested uses chiefly describe persons wearing visible clothing; they also extend to bearing an image or a sword within the clauses of the supplied verses.
Senses in use
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Wearing visible clothing · dominant
Present active participles describe people in relation to clothing: in James 2:3 the APB renders the man as “wearing the shining clothing”; in John 19:5 it renders Jesus as “wearing the thorny crown and the purple clothing”; and in Matthew 11:8 it speaks of those who “wear soft garments.”
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Bearing an image or sword · common
In 1 Corinthians 15:49, first-person active indicative forms occur in the comparison between having “borne the image of the man of dust” and later bearing “the image of the man of heaven.” In Romans 13:4, a present active indicative form occurs in the clause that the servant “does not bear the sword in vain.”
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the clothing contexts with “wearing” and “wear,” while it uses “borne” or “bear” for an image and “bear” for the sword. These are verse-level renderings rather than definitions.