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Lexicon :: Strong's G2875 - koptō

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κόπτω
Transliteration
koptō (Key)
Pronunciation
kop'-to
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A root word
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:830,453

Trench's Synonyms: lxv. λυπέομαι, πενθέω, θρηνέω, κόπτω.

Strong’s Definitions

κόπτω kóptō, kop'-to; a primary verb; to "chop"; specially, to beat the breast in grief:—cut down, lament, mourn, (be-)wail. Compare the base of G5114.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x

The KJV translates Strong's G2875 in the following manner: bewail (2x), lament (2x), cut down (2x), wail (1x), mourn (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 8x
The KJV translates Strong's G2875 in the following manner: bewail (2x), lament (2x), cut down (2x), wail (1x), mourn (1x).
  1. to cut, strike, smite

  2. to cut from, cut off

  3. to beat one's breast for grief

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κόπτω kóptō, kop'-to; a primary verb; to "chop"; specially, to beat the breast in grief:—cut down, lament, mourn, (be-)wail. Compare the base of G5114.
STRONGS G2875:
κόπτω: imperfect 3 person plural ἔκοπτον; 1 aorist participle κοψας (Mark 11:8 T Tr text WH); middle, imperfect ἐκοπτομην; future κόψομαι; 1 aorist ἐκοψαμην; (from Homer down); to cut, strike, smite (the Sept. for הִכָּה, כָּרַת, etc.): τί ἀπό or ἐκ τίνος, to cut from, cut off, Matthew 21:8; Mark 11:8. Middle to beat one's breast for grief, Latinplango (R. V. mourn): (Aeschylus Pers. 683; Plato, others; the Sept. often so for סָפַד); τινα, to mourn or bewail one (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 32, 1 γ.): Luke 8:52; Luke 23:27, (Genesis 23:2; 1 Samuel 25:1, etc.; Aristophanes, Lysias, 396; Anthol. 11, 135, 1); ἐπί τινα, Revelation 1:7; (Revelation 18:9 T Tr WH) (2 Samuel 11:26); ἐπί τινα, Revelation 18:9 (R G L), cf. Zechariah 12:10. (Compare: ἀνακόπτω, ἀποκόπτω, ἐκκόπτω, ἐνκόπτω, κατακόπτω, προκόπτω, προσκόπτω. Synonym: cf. θρηνέω.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
23:2
1 Samuel
25:1
2 Samuel
11:26
Zechariah
12:10
Matthew
21:8
Mark
11:8; 11:8
Luke
8:52; 23:27
Revelation
1:7; 18:9; 18:9

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2875 matches the Greek κόπτω (koptō),
which occurs 76 times in 75 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 23:2–Jer 25:34)

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:2 - Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan; and Abraham [fn]came to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:10 - And they came to the [fn]threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and they lamented there with a very great and [fn]immense lamentation; and he [fn]observed seven days of mourning for his father.
Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:20 -

“And you shall command the sons of Israel, that they bring you clear oil of beaten olives for the [fn]light, to make a lamp [fn]burn continually.

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:40 - and there shall be [fn]one-tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with one-fourth of a [fn]hin of beaten oil, and one-fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering with the one lamb.
Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:2 - “Command the sons of Israel that they bring to you clear oil from beaten olives for the [fn]light, to make a lamp [fn]burn continually.
Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:23 -

Then they came to the [fn]valley of [fn]Eshcol and from there cut down a branch with a single cluster of grapes; and they carried it on a pole between two men with some of the pomegranates and the figs.

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:24 - That place was called the valley of [fn]Eshcol, because of the cluster which the sons of Israel cut down from there.
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5 - as when a man goes into the forest with his friend to cut wood, and his hand [fn]swings the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron head slips off the [fn]handle and [fn]strikes his friend so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live;
Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:18 - how he met you along the way and attacked among you all the stragglers at your rear, but you were faint and weary; and he did not [fn]fear God.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20 - Now it happened when Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished striking them with a very great slaughter until they were completely destroyed, and the survivorsthose of them who survived[fn]had entered the fortified cities,
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:8 - And Yahweh gave them into the hand of Israel, so that they struck them down, and they pursued them as far as Great Sidon and Misrephoth-maim and the valley of Mizpeh to the east; and they struck them until [fn]there was no survivor remaining for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:30 - Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, for he has torn down the altar of Baal, and indeed, he has cut down the Asherah which was beside it.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:48 - So Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him; and Abimelech took [fn]an axe in his hand and cut down a branch from the trees and lifted it and laid it on his shoulder. Then he said to the people who were with him, “What you have seen me do, hurry and do [fn]likewise.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:49 - And all the people also cut down each one his branch and followed Abimelech and put them on the inner chamber and set the inner chamber on fire over those inside, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem also died, about one thousand men and women.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:43 - They surrounded Benjamin, pursued them without rest, and trod them down opposite Gibeah to the east toward the sunrise.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:1 -

Then Samuel died; and all Israel gathered together and lamented for him and buried him at his house in Ramah. And David arose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:3 -

Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had removed from the land those who were mediums and spiritists.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:12 - And they lamented and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and his son Jonathan and for the people of [fn]Yahweh and the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:31 -

Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes and gird on sackcloth and lament before Abner.” And King David walked behind the bier.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:20 - So David came to Baal-perazim, and there David struck them down; and he said, “Yahweh has broken through my enemies before me, like the breakthrough of waters.” Therefore he named that place [fn]Baal-perazim.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:24 - “And it will be that when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the [fn]balsam trees, then you shall act promptly, for then Yahweh will have gone out before you to strike the camp of the Philistines.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:26 -

Then the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband had died, so she lamented over her husband.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:6 - “So now, command that they cut for me cedars from Lebanon, and my servants will be with your servants; and I will give you wages for your servants according to all that you say, for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:11 - Solomon then gave Hiram [fn]20,000 kors of wheat as food for his household, and [fn]20 kors of beaten oil; thus Solomon would give Hiram year by year.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:15 -

Now it happened that when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army had gone up to bury the slain, and had struck down every male in Edom

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:30 - He laid his body in his own grave, and they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:31 - Now it happened after he had buried him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, “When I die, you shall bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:23 -

‘Through your messengers you have [fn]reproached the Lord,

And you have said, “With my many chariots

I came up to the heights of the mountains,

To the remotest parts of Lebanon;

And I [fn]cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypresses.

And I [fn]entered its farthest lodging place, its thickest forest.

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:8 - “Send me also cedar, cypress and algum timber from Lebanon, for I know that your servants know how to cut timber of Lebanon; and behold, my servants will work with your servants,
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:10 - “And behold, I will give to your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, [fn]20,000 kors of crushed wheat and 20,000 kors of barley, and [fn]20,000 baths of wine and 20,000 baths of oil.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:16 - “And we will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon and bring it to you on rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may carry it up to Jerusalem.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:4 - And they tore down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and the incense altars that were high above them he cut in pieces; also the Asherim, the graven images, and the molten images he broke in pieces and ground to powder and scattered it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7 - he also tore down the altars and beat the Asherim and the graven images into powder, and cut in pieces all the incense altars throughout the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.
Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:14 - Then Zeresh his wife and all his friends said to him, “Have a [fn]gallows [fn]fifty cubits high made and in the morning say to the king that Mordecai should be hanged on it; then go gladly with the king to the feast.” And the word was good to Haman, so he had the gallows made.
Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:4 -

A time to weep and a time to laugh;

A time to mourn and a time to dance.

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:5 - Furthermore, [fn]men are afraid of a high place and of terrors on the road; the almond tree blooms, the grasshopper drags itself along, and the caperberry is ineffective. For man goes to his eternal home, but the mourners go about in the street.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:15 -

Is the axe to boast itself over the one who chops with it?

Is the saw to magnify itself over the one who wields it?

That would be like a rod wielding those who lift it,

Or like a staff lifting him who is not wood.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:8 -

“Even the cypress trees are glad over you, and the cedars of Lebanon, saying,

‘Since you were laid low, no tree cutter comes up against us.’

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:3 -

In their streets they have girded themselves with sackcloth;

On their rooftops and in their squares

Everyone is wailing, [fn]dissolved in weeping.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:12 -

Beat your breasts for the desirable fields, for the fruitful vine,

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:24 -

“Through your servants you have [fn]reproached the Lord,

And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I came up to the heights of the mountains,

To the remotest parts of Lebanon;

And I cut down its tall cedars and its choice cypresses.

And I will go to its [fn]highest peak, its thickest forest.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:14 - In order to cut cedars for himself, he takes a [fn]cypress or an oak and [fn]raises it for himself among the trees of the forest. He plants a fir, and the rain makes it grow.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:8 -

“For this, I gird myself with sackcloth,

Lament and wail;

For the burning anger of Yahweh

Has not turned back from us.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:2 - “And they will spread them out to the sun, the moon, and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served, and which they have walked after and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or buried; they will be as dung on the face of the ground.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:4 - “They will die of deadly diseases; they will not be lamented or buried; they will be as dung on the surface of the ground and come to an end by sword and famine, and their carcasses will become food for the birds of the sky and for the beasts of the earth.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:5 -

For thus says Yahweh, “Do not enter the house of the funeral meal, or go to lament or to console them; for I have withdrawn My peace from this people,” declares Yahweh, “My lovingkindness and compassion.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:6 - “Both great men and small will die in this land; they will not be buried; they will not be lamented, nor will anyone gash himself or shave his head for them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:18 -

Therefore thus says Yahweh in regard to Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah,

“They will not lament for him:

‘Alas, my brother!’ or, ‘Alas, sister!’

They will not lament for him:

‘Alas for the master!’ or, ‘Alas for his splendor!’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:29 - “Is not My word like fire?” declares Yahweh, “and like a hammer which shatters a rock?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:34 -

“Wail, you shepherds, and cry out;

And roll yourselves in ashes, you masters of the flock;

For the days of your slaughter and your scatterings are being fulfilled,

And you will fall like a desirable vessel.


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