pherō

At its heart this is the everyday word for getting a thing from here to there by carrying it. Most of the time that is literal: people carry the sick to Jesus, fetch a coin or a calf, lay money at the apostles' feet, or shoulder a cross. The same word stretches naturally to other kinds of carrying. A vine or a seed carries fruit, so it comes to mean to produce. A messenger carries words, so it comes to mean to bring an accusation or to report what was said. A person who shoulders a heavy load is bearing it, so it comes to mean to put up with or endure.

The one strand that ties the whole range together is conveyance: in every use, something is being moved or sustained by the one who bears it. That is why the same verb can describe a hand carried to a wound, a tree carrying fruit, the Son carrying the whole universe along by his powerful word, and prophets carried along by the Spirit as they spoke.

The passive side of the word is just the other end of the same act. When no person does the carrying, something is simply carried along: a ship driven before the wind, a sound rushing through a house, grace being brought to believers. The reader should hear one basic picture, bearing or being borne, behind all of these.

Because the senses below are shades of that single picture rather than unrelated meanings, a verse can sit naturally near its neighbors. The groupings mark the most useful distinctions for a reader, not hard walls between separate words.