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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, (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; 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.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:42 - “If the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the dread of Isaac, had not been for me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hands, so He rendered the decision last night.”
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:12 - ‘How can I alone bear the load and burden of you and your strife?
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:16 - So they removed the foreign gods from among them and served Yahweh; and [fn]He could bear the trouble of Israel no longer.
Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:13 - I also shook out the [fn]front of my garment and said, “Thus may God shake out every man from his house and from his possessions who does not establish this word; even thus may he be shaken out and emptied.” And all the assembly said, “Amen!” And they praised Yahweh. Then the people did according to this word.
Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:2 -

“If one tries a word with you, will you become weary?

But who can hold back [fn]from speaking?

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:6 -

“For wickedness does not come out from the dust,

Nor does trouble sprout from the ground,

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:7 -

For man is born for trouble,

As [fn]sparks fly upward.

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:16 -

“For you would forget your trouble,

As waters that pass by, so you would remember it.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7 -

Pe

His mouth is full of curses and deceit and oppression;

Under his tongue is mischief and wickedness.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:18 -

Resh

See my affliction and my [fn]trouble,

And forgive all my sins.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:10 -

Day and night they go around her upon her walls,

And wickedness and mischief are in her midst.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:5 -

They are not [fn]in trouble as other [fn]men,

And they are not stricken along with the rest of mankind.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:16 -

When I gave thought to know this,

It was trouble in my sight

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:15 -

I have been afflicted and about to breathe my last from my youth on;

I bear Your terrors; I am [fn]overcome.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:10 -

As for the days of our [fn]life, [fn]they contain seventy years,

Or if due to might, eighty years,

Yet their pride is but labor and wickedness;

For soon it is gone and we fly away.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:20 -

Can a [fn]throne of destruction be allied with You,

One which forms [fn]trouble by statute?

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:12 -

So He subdued their heart with labor;

They stumbled and there was none to help.

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:9 -

“As for the head of those who surround me,

May the trouble from their lips cover them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:18 -

Why did I ever come forth from the womb

To look on trouble and sorrow,

So that my days have been spent in shame?

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:3 - ‘You said, “Ah, woe is me! For Yahweh has added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my sighing and have found no rest.”’
Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:3 -

In the womb he took his brother by the heel,

And in his maturity he [fn]wrestled with God.

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:1 -

Woe to those who devise wickedness,

Who work out evil on their beds!

When the light of the morning comes, they do it,

For it is in the power of their hands.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:3 -

Why do You make me see wickedness

And cause me to look on trouble?

Indeed, devastation and violence are before me;

And there is strife, and contention is lifted up.

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:7 -

I saw the tents of Cushan under wickedness;

The tent curtains of the land of Midian were trembling.

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:2 -

For the teraphim speak wickedness,

And the diviners behold [fn]false visions

And speak worthless dreams;

They comfort in vain.

Therefore the people journey like sheep;

They are afflicted because there is no shepherd.

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:13 -

“And this is a second thing you do: you cover the altar of Yahweh with tears, with weeping, and with groaning because He no longer regards the [fn]offering or receives it as acceptable from your hand.

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