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Lexicon :: Strong's G2870 - kopetos

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κοπετός
Transliteration
kopetos (Key)
Pronunciation
kop-et-os'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
mGNT
1x in 1 unique form(s) TR
1x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
14x in 5 unique form(s)
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TDNT Reference: 3:830,453

Strong’s Definitions

κοπετός kopetós, kop-et-os'; from G2875; mourning (properly, by beating the breast):—lamentation.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G2870 in the following manner: lamentation (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G2870 in the following manner: lamentation (1x).

  1. lamentation with beating of the breast as a sign of grief

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κοπετός kopetós, kop-et-os'; from G2875; mourning (properly, by beating the breast):—lamentation.
STRONGS G2870:
κοπετός, κοπετοῦ, ὁ (from κόπτομαι, see κόπτω), the Sept. for מִסְפֵּד; Latinplanctus, i. e. lamentation with beating of the breast as n sign of grief: κοπετόν ποιεῖσθαι ἐπί τίνι, Acts 8:2; ἐπί τινα, Zechariah 12:10. (Eupolis in Bekker's annott. ad Etym. Magn., p. 776; Dionysius Halicarnassus, Antiquities 11, 31; Plutarch, Fab. 17.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Zechariah
12:10
Acts
8:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2870 matches the Greek κοπετός (kopetos),
which occurs 14 times in 12 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:10 - When they reached the threshing floor of Atad, near the Jordan, they lamented loudly and bitterly; and there Joseph observed a seven-day period of mourning for his father.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 4:3 - In every province to which the edict and order of the king came, there was great mourning among the Jews, with fasting, weeping and wailing. Many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 30:11 - You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:12 - The Lord, the LORD Almighty, called you on that day to weep and to wail, to tear out your hair and put on sackcloth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:26 - Put on sackcloth, my people, and roll in ashes; mourn with bitter wailing as for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:10 - I will weep and wail for the mountains and take up a lament concerning the wilderness grasslands. They are desolate and untraveled, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. The birds have all fled and the animals are gone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 2:12 - “Even now,” declares the LORD, “return to me with all your heart, with fasting and weeping and mourning.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:16

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:16 - Therefore this is what the Lord, the LORD God Almighty, says: “There will be wailing in all the streets and cries of anguish in every public square. The farmers will be summoned to weep and the mourners to wail.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 5:17 - There will be wailing in all the vineyards, for I will pass through your midst,”

says the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:8 - Because of this I will weep and wail; I will go about barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and moan like an owl.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:10

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:10 - “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit[fn] of grace and supplication. They will look on[fn] me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:11 - On that day the weeping in Jerusalem will be as great as the weeping of Hadad Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.
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