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Lexicon :: Strong's G2872 - kopiaō

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κοπιάω
Transliteration
kopiaō (Key)
Pronunciation
kop-ee-ah'-o
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From a derivative of κόπος (G2873)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:827,453

Strong’s Definitions

κοπιάω kopiáō, kop-ee-ah'-o; from a derivative of G2873; to feel fatigue; by implication, to work hard:—(bestow) labour, toil, be wearied.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x

The KJV translates Strong's G2872 in the following manner: labour (16x), bestow labour (3x), toil (3x), be wearied (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 23x
The KJV translates Strong's G2872 in the following manner: labour (16x), bestow labour (3x), toil (3x), be wearied (1x).

  1. to grow weary, tired, exhausted (with toil or burdens or grief)

  2. to labour with wearisome effort, to toil

    1. of bodily labour

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κοπιάω kopiáō, kop-ee-ah'-o; from a derivative of G2873; to feel fatigue; by implication, to work hard:—(bestow) labour, toil, be wearied.
STRONGS G2872:
κοπιάω, κοπιῶ (3 person plural κοπιουσιν (for κοπιῶσιν), Matthew 6:28 Tr; cf. ἐρωτάω, at the beginning); 1 aorist ἐκοπίασα; perfect κεκοπίακα (2 person singular κεκοπίακες, Revelation 2:3 L T Tr WH, cf. (Winers Grammar, § 13, 2 c.); Buttmann, 43 (38) (and his translation of Apollonius Dyscolus, p. 54 n.; Tdf. Proleg., p. 123; WHs Appendix, p. 166; Sophocles' Lexicon, p. 39)); (κόπος, which see);
1. as in Aristophanes, Josephus, Plutarch, others, to grow weary, tired, exhausted, (with toil or burdens or grief): Matthew 11:28; Revelation 2:3; κεκοπιακώς ἐκ τῆς ὁδοιπορίας, John 4:6 (ὑπό τῆς ὁδοιπορίας,Josephus, Antiquities 2, 15, 3; δραμοῦνται καί οὐ κοπιασουσι, Isaiah 40:31).
2. in Biblical Greek alone, to labor with wearisome effort, to toil (the Sept. for יָגַע ); of bodily labor: absolutely, Matthew 6:28; Luke 5:5; Luke 12:27 (not Tdf.); John 4:38; Acts 20:35; 1 Corinthians 4:12; Ephesians 4:28; 2 Timothy 2:6 (cf. Winers Grammar, 556 (517); Buttmann, 390 (334)); τί, upon a thing, John 4:38. of the toilsome efforts of teachers in proclaiming and promoting the kingdom of God and Christ: 1 Corinthians 15:10; 1 Corinthians 16:16 (cf. John 4:38); followed by ἐν with the dative of the thing in which one labors, ἐν λόγῳ καί διδασκαλία, 1 Timothy 5:17; ἐν ὑμῖν,among you, 1 Thessalonians 5:12; ἐν κυρίῳ (see ἐν, I. 6 b., p. 211b middle (L brackets the clause)), Romans 16:12; εἰς τινα, for one, for his benefit, Romans 16:6; Galatians 4:11 (cf. Buttmann, 242 (200); Winer's Grammar, 503 (469)); εἰς τοῦτο, looking to this (viz. that piety has the promise of life), 1 Timothy 4:10; εἰς ὁ, to which end, Colossians 1:29; εἰς κενόν, in vain, Philippians 2:16 (κενῶς ἐκοπίασα, of the frustrated labor of the prophets, Isaiah 49:4).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Isaiah
40:31; 49:4
Matthew
6:28; 6:28; 11:28
Luke
5:5; 12:27
John
4:6; 4:38; 4:38; 4:38
Acts
20:35
Romans
16:6; 16:12
1 Corinthians
4:12; 15:10; 16:16
Galatians
4:11
Ephesians
4:28
Philippians
2:16
Colossians
1:29
1 Thessalonians
5:12
1 Timothy
4:10; 5:17
2 Timothy
2:6
Revelation
2:3; 2:3

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2872 matches the Greek κοπιάω (kopiaō),
which occurs 23 times in 21 verses in the MGNT Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 6:28

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 6:28 - Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 11:28

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 11:28 - "Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 5:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 5:5 - Shim`on answered him, "Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net."

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Unchecked Copy Box Luk 12:27

Unchecked Copy BoxLuk 12:27 - Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don't toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Shlomo in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:6 - Ya`akov's well was there. Yeshua therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 4:38

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 4:38 - I sent you to reap that for which you haven't labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 20:35

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 20:35 - In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Yeshua, that he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:6 - Greet Miryam, who labored much for us.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rom 16:12

Unchecked Copy BoxRom 16:12 - Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 4:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 4:12 - We toil, working with our own hands. Being reviled, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 15:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 15:10 - But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was bestowed on me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 16:16

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 16:16 - that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 4:11 - I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Eph 4:28

Unchecked Copy BoxEph 4:28 - Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, working with his hands the thing that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

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Unchecked Copy Box Phl 2:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPhl 2:16 - holding up the word of life; that I may have something to boast in the day of Messiah, that I didn't run in vain nor labor in vain.

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Unchecked Copy Box Col 1:29

Unchecked Copy BoxCol 1:29 - for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Th 5:12

Unchecked Copy Box1Th 5:12 - But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 4:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 4:10 - For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ti 5:17

Unchecked Copy Box1Ti 5:17 - Let the Zakenim who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ti 2:6

Unchecked Copy Box2Ti 2:6 - The farmers who labor must be the first to get a share of the crops.

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Unchecked Copy Box Rev 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxRev 2:3 - You have perseverance and have endured for my name's sake, and have not grown weary.
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