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Lexicon :: Strong's G2873 - kopos

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κόπος
Transliteration
kopos (Key)
Pronunciation
kop'-os
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:827,453

Trench's Synonyms: cii. μόχθος, πόνος, κόπος.

Strong’s Definitions

κόπος kópos, kop'-os; from G2875; a cut, i.e. (by analogy) toil (as reducing the strength), literally or figuratively; by implication, pains:—labour, + trouble, weariness.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 19x

The KJV translates Strong's G2873 in the following manner: labour (13x), trouble (with G3830) (5x), weariness (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 19x
The KJV translates Strong's G2873 in the following manner: labour (13x), trouble (with G3830) (5x), weariness (1x).

  1. a beating

  2. a beating of the breast with grief, sorrow

  3. labour

    1. trouble

      1. to cause one trouble, make work for him

    2. intense labour united with trouble and toil

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κόπος kópos, kop'-os; from G2875; a cut, i.e. (by analogy) toil (as reducing the strength), literally or figuratively; by implication, pains:—labour, + trouble, weariness.
STRONGS G2873:
κόπος, κόπου, ὁ (κόπτω);
1. equivalent to τό κόπτειν, a beating.
2. equivalent to κοπετός, a beating of the breast in grief, sorrow (Jeremiah 51:33 (Jer. 45:3)).
3. labor (so the Sept. often for עָמָל), i. e.
a. trouble (Aeschylus, Sophocles): κόπους παρέχειν τίνι, to cause one trouble, make work for him, Matthew 26:10; Mark 14:6; Luke 11:7; Galatians 6:17; κόπον παρέχειν τίνι, Luke 18:5.
b. intense labor united with trouble, toil. (Euripides, Arstph;, others): universally, plural, 2 Corinthians 6:5; 2 Corinthians 11:23; of manual labor, joined with μόχθος ((see below)), 1 Thessalonians 2:9; ἐν κόπῳ καί μόχθῳ (toil and travail), 2 Corinthians 11:27 (where L T Tr WH omit ἐν); 2 Thessalonians 3:8; of the laborious efforts of Christian virtue, 1 Corinthians 15:58; Revelation 2:2; plural Revelation 14:13; ὁ κόπος τῆς ἀγάπης, the labor to which love prompts, and which voluntarily assumes and endures trouble and pains for the salvation of others, 1 Thessalonians 1:3; Hebrews 6:10 Rec.; of toil in teaching, John 4:38 (on which see εἰς, B. I. 3); 1 Thessalonians 3:5; of that which such toil in teaching accomplishes, 1 Corinthians 3:8; plural 2 Corinthians 10:15 (cf. Sir. 14:15).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Jeremiah
45:3; 51:33
Matthew
26:10
Mark
14:6
Luke
11:7; 18:5
John
4:38
1 Corinthians
3:8; 15:58
2 Corinthians
6:5; 10:15; 11:23; 11:27
Galatians
6:17
1 Thessalonians
1:3; 2:9; 3:5
2 Thessalonians
3:8
Hebrews
6:10
Revelation
2:2; 14:13

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2873 matches the Greek κόπος (kopos),
which occurs 26 times in 26 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:42 - Unless I had the God of my father Abraam, and the fear of Isaac, now thou wouldest have sent me away empty; God saw my humiliation, and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:12 - How shall I alone be able to bear your labour, and your burden, and your gainsayings?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:16 - And they put away the strange gods from the midst of them, and served the Lord only, and his soul was pained for the trouble of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:13 - And I shook out my garment, and said, So may God shake out every man who shall not keep to this word, from his house, and from his labours, he shall be even thus shaken out, as an outcast and empty. And all the congregation said, Amen, and they praised the Lord: and the people did this thing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:2 - Hast thou been often spoken to in distress? but who shall endure the force of thy words?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:6 - For labour cannot by any means come out of the earth, nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:7 - yet man is born to labour, and even so the vulture's young seek the high places.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:16 - And thou shalt forget trouble, as a wave that has passed by; and thou shalt not be scared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7 - (LXX 9:28) Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and fraud: under his tongue are trouble and pain.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:18 - (LXX 24:18) Look upon mine affliction and my trouble; and forgive all my sins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:10 - (LXX 54:11) Day and night [fn]he shall go round about it upon its walls: iniquity and sorrow and unrighteousness are in the midst of it;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:5 - (LXX 72:5) They are not in the troubles of other men; and they shall not be scourged with other men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:16 - (LXX 72:16) And I undertook to understand this, but it is too hard for me,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:15 - (LXX 87:16) I am poor and in troubles from my youth; and having been exalted, I was brought low and into [fn]despair.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:10 - (LXX 89:10) As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years; and if men should be in strength, eighty years: and [fn]the greater part of them would be labour and trouble; for weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:20 - (LXX 93:20) Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frames mischief by an ordinance?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:12 - (LXX 106:12) So their heart was brought low with troubles; they were weak, and there was no helper.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:9 - (LXX 139:10) As for the head of them that compass me, the mischief of their lips shall cover them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:18 - Why is it that I came forth of the womb to see troubles and distresses, and my days are spent in shame?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:3 - (LXX 51:33) Whereas thou hast said, Alas! alas! for the Lord has laid a grievous trouble upon me; I lay down in groaning, I found no rest;

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:3 - (LXX 12:4) He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his labours he had power with God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:1 - They meditated troubles, and wrought wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:3 - Wherefore hast thou shewn me troubles and griefs to look upon, misery and ungodliness? judgment is before me, and the judge receives a reward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:7 - Because of troubles I looked upon the tents of the Ethiopians: the tabernacles also of the land of Madiam shall be dismayed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:2 - For the speakers have uttered grievous things, and the diviners have [fn]seen false visions, and they have spoken false dreams, they have given vain comfort: therefore have they [fn]fallen away like sheep, and been afflicted, because there was no healing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:13 - And these things which I hated, ye did: ye covered with tears the altar of the Lord, and with weeping and groaning because of troubles: is it meet for me to have respect to your sacrifice, or to receive anything from your hands as welcome?
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