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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.)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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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)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:2 - And Sarah died at Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went in to mourn for Sarah and to weep for her.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:10 - When they came to the threshing floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, they lamented there with a very great and grievous lamentation, and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:20 - “You shall command the people of Israel that they bring to you pure beaten olive oil for the light, that a lamp may regularly be set up to burn.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:40

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:40 - And with the first lamb a tenth measure[fn] of fine flour mingled with a fourth of a hin[fn] of beaten oil, and a fourth of a hin of wine for a drink offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 24:2 - “Command the people of Israel to bring you pure oil from beaten olives for the lamp, that a light may be kept burning regularly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:23

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:23 - And they came to the Valley of Eshcol and cut down from there a branch with a single cluster of grapes, and they carried it on a pole between two of them; they also brought some pomegranates and figs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:24 - That place was called the Valley of Eshcol,[fn] because of the cluster that the people of Israel cut down from there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 19:5

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 19:5 - as when someone goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut wood, and his hand swings the axe to cut down a tree, and the head slips from the handle and strikes his neighbor so that he dies—he may flee to one of these cities and live,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 25:18 - how he attacked you on the way when you were faint and weary, and cut off your tail, those who were lagging behind you, and he did not fear God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:20 - When Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished striking them with a great blow until they were wiped out, and when the remnant that remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:8 - And the LORD gave them into the hand of Israel, who struck them and chased them as far as Great Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. And they struck them until he left none remaining.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 6:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:30 - Then the men of the town said to Joash, “Bring out your son, that he may die, for he has broken down the altar of Baal and cut down the Asherah beside it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:48

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:48 - And Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the people who were with him. And Abimelech took an axe in his hand and cut down a bundle of brushwood and took it up and laid it on his shoulder. And he said to the men who were with him, “What you have seen me do, hurry and do as I have done.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:49

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:49 - So every one of the people cut down his bundle and following Abimelech put it against the stronghold, and they set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the Tower of Shechem also died, about 1,000 men and women.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 20:43

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:43 - Surrounding the Benjaminites, they pursued them and trod them down from Nohah[fn] as far as opposite Gibeah on the east.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 25:1

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 25:1 - Now Samuel died. And all Israel assembled and mourned for him, and they buried him in his house at Ramah. Then David rose and went down to the wilderness of Paran.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 28:3

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 28:3 - Now Samuel had died, and all Israel had mourned for him and buried him in Ramah, his own city. And Saul had put the mediums and the necromancers out of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 1:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 1:12 - And they mourned and wept and fasted until evening for Saul and for Jonathan his son and for the people of the LORD and for the house of Israel, because they had fallen by the sword.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 3:31

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:31 - Then David said to Joab and to all the people who were with him, “Tear your clothes and put on sackcloth and mourn before Abner.” And King David followed the bier.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 5:20

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:20 - And David came to Baal-perazim, and David defeated them there. And he said, “The LORD has broken through my enemies before me like a breaking flood.” Therefore the name of that place is called Baal-perazim.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 5:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 5:24 - And when you hear the sound of marching in the tops of the balsam trees, then rouse yourself, for then the LORD has gone out before you to strike down the army of the Philistines.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 11:26

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 11:26 - When the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she lamented over her husband.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 5:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:6 - Now therefore command that cedars of Lebanon be cut for me. And my servants will join your servants, and I will pay you for your servants such wages as you set, for you know that there is no one among us who knows how to cut timber like the Sidonians.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 5:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:11 - while Solomon gave Hiram 20,000 cors[fn] of wheat as food for his household, and 20,000[fn] cors of beaten oil. Solomon gave this to Hiram year by year.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 11:15

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:15 - For when David was in Edom, and Joab the commander of the army went up to bury the slain, he struck down every male in Edom

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:30

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:30 - And he laid the body in his own grave. And they mourned over him, saying, “Alas, my brother!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 13:31

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 13:31 - And after he had buried him, he said to his sons, “When I die, bury me in the grave in which the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 19:23

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:23 - By your messengers you have mocked the Lord,
and you have said, ‘With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of Lebanon;
I felled its tallest cedars,
its choicest cypresses;
I entered its farthest lodging place,
its most fruitful forest.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 2:8

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 in Lebanon. And my servants will be with your servants,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 2:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:10 - I will give for your servants, the woodsmen who cut timber, 20,000 cors[fn] of crushed wheat, 20,000 cors of barley, 20,000 baths[fn] of wine, and 20,000 baths of oil.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 2:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 2:16 - And we will cut whatever timber you need from Lebanon and bring it to you in rafts by sea to Joppa, so that you may take it up to Jerusalem.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:4 - And they chopped down the altars of the Baals in his presence, and he cut down the incense altars that stood above them. And he broke in pieces the Asherim and the carved and the metal images, and he made dust of them and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:7

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:7 - he broke down the altars and beat the Asherim and the images into powder and cut down all the incense altars throughout all the land of Israel. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Est 5:14

Unchecked Copy BoxEst 5:14 - Then his wife Zeresh and all his friends said to him, “Let a gallows[fn] fifty cubits[fn] high be made, and in the morning tell the king to have Mordecai hanged upon it. Then go joyfully with the king to the feast.” This idea pleased Haman, and he had the gallows made.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 3:4

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 3:4 - a time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

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Unchecked Copy Box Ecc 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxEcc 12:5 - they are afraid also of what is high, and terrors are in the way; the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper drags itself along,[fn] and desire fails, because man is going to his eternal home, and the mourners go about the streets—

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:15 - Shall the axe boast over him who hews with it,
or the saw magnify itself against him who wields it?
As if a rod should wield him who lifts it,
or as if a staff should lift him who is not wood!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:8

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:8 - The cypresses rejoice at you,
the cedars of Lebanon, saying,
‘Since you were laid low,
no woodcutter comes up against us.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 15:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:3 - in the streets they wear sackcloth;
on the housetops and in the squares
everyone wails and melts in tears.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 32:12

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 32:12 - Beat your breasts for the pleasant fields,
for the fruitful vine,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 37:24

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:24 - By your servants you have mocked the Lord,
and you have said, With my many chariots
I have gone up the heights of the mountains,
to the far recesses of Lebanon,
to cut down its tallest cedars,
its choicest cypresses,
to come to its remotest height,
its most fruitful forest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 44:14

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 44:14 - He cuts down cedars, or he chooses a cypress tree or an oak and lets it grow strong among the trees of the forest. He plants a cedar and the rain nourishes it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 4:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:8 - For this put on sackcloth,
lament and wail,
for the fierce anger of the LORD
has not turned back from us.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 8:2 - And they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped. And they shall not be gathered or buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:4 - They shall die of deadly diseases. They shall not be lamented, nor shall they be buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground. They shall perish by the sword and by famine, and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the air and for the beasts of the earth.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:5 - “For thus says the LORD: Do not enter the house of mourning, or go to lament or grieve for them, for I have taken away my peace from this people, my steadfast love and mercy, declares the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:6 - Both great and small shall die in this land. They shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or cut himself or make himself bald for them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 22:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:18 - Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah:
“They shall not lament for him, saying,
‘Ah, my brother!’ or ‘Ah, sister!’
They shall not lament for him, saying,
‘Ah, lord!’ or ‘Ah, his majesty!’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:29 - Is not my word like fire, declares the LORD, and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 25:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:34 - “Wail, you shepherds, and cry out,
and roll in ashes, you lords of the flock,
for the days of your slaughter and dispersion have come,
and you shall fall like a choice vessel.

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