Definition of "bring forth"

bring forth

verb
third-person singular simple present brings forth, present participle bringing forth, simple past and past participle brought forth
1. To produce, bear as fruit.
  Quotations
  Gon. […] Treaſon, fellony, / Sword, Pike, Knife, Gun, or neede of any Engine / Would I not haue : but Nature ſhould bring forth / Of it owne kinde, all foyzon, all abundance / To feed my innocent people.
  1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act II, scene i], page 7
2. To give birth.
  Quotations
  Knoweſt thou the time when the wild goates of the rocke bring forth? or canſt thou marke when the hindes doe calue?
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Job 39:1
  When a woman is in hard labour and cannot bring forth, they call in a magician to her aid. He looks at her and says, “ The child is bound in the womb, that is why she cannot be delivered.” On the entreaties of her female relations he then promises to loose the bond so that she may bring forth.
  1911, James George Frazer, The Golden Bough, volume 3, page 295
3. To create, generate, bring into existence.
4. To adduce, bring forward.