Verse 12

Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olive berries, or a vine bear figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh.

Other Translations

• Bibeloversettelse fra KJV1611 og Textus Receptus

  Kan fikentreet, mine brødre, bære olivenfrukter? Eller en vinranke, fiken? Slik kan ingen kilde både gi salt vann og friskt.

• NT, oversatt fra gresk

  Kan et fikentre gi olivenbær? Eller en vinstokk, fiker? Slik kan ingen kilde gi både saltvann og søtt vann.

• Norsk King James

  Kan figentreet, mine brødre, bære oliven? Eller kan vintrær bære fiker? Ingen kilde kan gi både saltvann og ferskvann.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Kan et fikentre, mine brødre, bære oliven, eller en vinstokk fikener? Slik kan heller ingen kilde gi både salt og ferskt vann.

• KJV/Textus Receptus til norsk

  Mine brødre, kan et fikentre bære oliven? Eller en vinstokk fikener? På samme måte kan ingen kilde gi både salt og ferskt vann.

• Den norske oversettelsen av Det Nye Testamente

  Mine brødre, kan et fikentre bære oliven, eller en vinranke fikener? På samme måte kan ingen kilde gi både saltvann og ferskvann.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Kan et fikentre, mine brødre, bære olivenbær? Eller en vinstokk, fikener? Slik kan heller ikke en kilde gi både salt vann og rent.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Kan fiken, mine brødre, bære oliven? Eller kan en vinstokk bære fiken? På samme måte kan ingen kilde gi både salt og ferskvann.

• gpt4.5-preview

  Kan et fikentre, mine brødre, bære oliven? Eller et vintre bære fikener? Like lite kan en kilde gi både salt og friskt vann.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Kan et fikentre, mine brødre, bære oliven? Eller et vintre bære fikener? Like lite kan en kilde gi både salt og friskt vann.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Kan, mine brødre, et fikentre bære oliven, eller en vinstokk bære fikener? Like lite kan en salt kilde gi ferskvann.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt spring yield fresh water.

• biblecontext

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• NT, oversatt fra gresk Aug2024

  Kan et fikentre, mine brødre, bære oliven, eller en vintre bære fiken? Slik kan heller ingen kilde gi både saltvann og ferskt vann.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  Mon et Figentræ, mine Brødre! kan give Oliver, eller et Viintræ Figen? Saa kan ingen Kilde give salt og sødt Vand.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so can no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Mine brødre, kan et fikentre bære olivenbær, eller en vintre fikener? Heller ikke gir en kilde både saltvann og ferskvann.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Kan et fikentre, mine brødre, bære oliven, eller en vinranker fiken? Slik kan heller ikke en kilde gi både saltvann og ferskvann.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Kan et fikentre, mine brødre, bære oliven? Eller en vinranke fikener? Slik kan heller ikke en kilde gi salt og søtt vann.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Kan et fikentre, mine brødre, bære oliven, eller en vinstokk fiken? Heller ikke kan saltvann gi søtt vann.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Kan et fikentre bære oliven, mine brødre, eller kan en vinranke bære fikener, eller gi søtt vann fra salt sjø?

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  Can the fygge tree my Brethren beare olive beries: other a vyne beare fygges?

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  Can the fygge tree, my Brethren, beare oliue beries: ether a vyne beare fygges?

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Can ye figge tree, my brethren, bring forth oliues, either a vine figges? so can no fountaine make both salt water and sweete.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Can the fygge tree, my brethren, beare oliue beries? either a vine beare figges? So can no fountayne geue both salt water and freshe also.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Can the fig tree, my brethren, bear olive berries? either a vine, figs? so [can] no fountain both yield salt water and fresh.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  is a fig-tree able, my brethren, olives to make? or a vine figs? so no fountain salt and sweet water `is able' to make.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Can a fig tree, my brethren, yield olives, or a vine figs? Neither [can] salt water yield sweet.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Is a fig-tree able to give us olives, my brothers, or do we get figs from a vine, or sweet water from the salt sea?

• World English Bible (2000)

  Can a fig tree, my brothers, yield olives, or a vine figs? Thus no spring yields both salt water and fresh water.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  Can a fig tree produce olives, my brothers and sisters, or a vine produce figs? Neither can a salt water spring produce fresh water.

Referenced Verses

• Luke 6:43-44 : 43 For a good tree does not bring forth corrupt fruit; neither does a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. 44 For every tree is known by its own fruit. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor from a bramble bush do they gather grapes.
• Matt 7:16-20 : 16 You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? 17 Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. 18 A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Therefore, by their fruits you will know them.
• Matt 12:33 : 33 Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit.
• Rom 11:16-18 : 16 For if the first fruit is holy, the batch is also holy; and if the root is holy, so are the branches. 17 And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, were grafted in among them, and with them partake of the root and fatness of the olive tree, 18 do not boast against the branches. But if you do boast, remember that you do not support the root, but the root supports you.
• Jer 2:21 : 21 Yet I had planted you a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then have you turned into the degenerate plant of a strange vine to me?
• Ezek 47:8-9 : 8 Then he said to me, These waters flow toward the eastern region, and go into the desert, and go into the sea: which when flowing into the sea, the waters shall be healed. 9 And it shall come to pass, that every living creature that moves, wherever the rivers shall come, shall live: and there shall be a very great multitude of fish, because these waters shall go there: for they shall be healed; and everything shall live wherever the river comes. 10 And it shall come to pass, that the fishermen shall stand upon it from Engedi even unto Eneglaim; they shall be a place to spread nets; their fish shall be according to their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, very many. 11 But the miry places and the marshes shall not be healed; they shall be given to salt.
• Exod 15:23-25 : 23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink the waters of Marah, for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah. 24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink? 25 And he cried to the LORD; and the LORD showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he tested them,
• 2 Kgs 2:19-22 : 19 And the men of the city said to Elisha, Behold, I pray you, the situation of this city is pleasant, as my lord sees: but the water is bad, and the ground barren. 20 And he said, Bring me a new bowl, and put salt in it. And they brought it to him. 21 And he went forth to the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus says the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from here any more death or barren land. 22 So the waters were healed to this day, according to the saying of Elisha which he spoke.
• Isa 5:2-4 : 2 And he fenced it, and removed its stones, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a winepress in it: and he expected it to bring forth grapes, but it brought forth wild grapes. 3 And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, between me and my vineyard. 4 What more could have been done to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Why, when I looked for it to bring forth grapes, did it bring forth wild grapes?