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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 2 / 2 (Jer 34:5–Zec 14:12)

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 34:5 - You shall die in peace. And as spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who were before you, so people shall burn spices for you and lament for you, saying, “Alas, lord!”’ For I have spoken the word, declares the LORD.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 41:5 - eighty men arrived from Shechem and Shiloh and Samaria, with their beards shaved and their clothes torn, and their bodies gashed, bringing grain offerings and incense to present at the temple of the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:5 - Why have I seen it?
They are dismayed
and have turned backward.
Their warriors are beaten down
and have fled in haste;
they look not back—
terror on every side!
declares the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:13 - The word that the LORD spoke to Jeremiah the prophet about the coming of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon to strike the land of Egypt:
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 46:22 - “She makes a sound like a serpent gliding away;
for her enemies march in force
and come against her with axes
like those who fell trees.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 47:5 - Baldness has come upon Gaza;
Ashkelon has perished.
O remnant of their valley,
how long will you gash yourselves?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:2 - the renown of Moab is no more.
In Heshbon they planned disaster against her:
‘Come, let us cut her off from being a nation!’
You also, O Madmen, shall be brought to silence;
the sword shall pursue you.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 48:37 - “For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. On all the hands are gashes, and around the waist is sackcloth.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 49:3 - “Wail, O Heshbon, for Ai is laid waste!
Cry out, O daughters of Rabbah!
Put on sackcloth,
lament, and run to and fro among the hedges!
For Milcom shall go into exile,
with his priests and his officials.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 6:9 - then those of you who escape will remember me among the nations where they are carried captive, how I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departed from me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols. And they will be loathsome in their own sight for the evils that they have committed, for all their abominations.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:5 - And to the others he said in my hearing, “Pass through the city after him, and strike. Your eye shall not spare, and you shall show no pity.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:7 - Then he said to them, “Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain. Go out.” So they went out and struck in the city.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 9:8 - And while they were striking, and I was left alone, I fell upon my face, and cried, “Ah, Lord GOD! Will you destroy all the remnant of Israel in the outpouring of your wrath on Jerusalem?”
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 20:43 - And there you shall remember your ways and all your deeds with which you have defiled yourselves, and you shall loathe yourselves for all the evils that you have committed.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:16 - “Son of man, behold, I am about to take the delight of your eyes away from you at a stroke; yet you shall not mourn or weep, nor shall your tears run down.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 24:23 - Your turbans shall be on your heads and your shoes on your feet; you shall not mourn or weep, but you shall rot away in your iniquities and groan to one another.
Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:10 - so that they will not need to take wood out of the field or cut down any out of the forests, for they will make their fires of the weapons. They will seize the spoil of those who despoiled them, and plunder those who plundered them, declares the Lord GOD.
Unchecked Copy BoxJoe 1:13 - Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests;
wail, O ministers of the altar.
Go in, pass the night in sackcloth,
O ministers of my God!
Because grain offering and drink offering
are withheld from the house of your God.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:8 - For this I will lament and wail;
I will go stripped and naked;
I will make lamentation like the jackals,
and mourning like the ostriches.
Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:11 - Pass on your way,
inhabitants of Shaphir,
in nakedness and shame;
the inhabitants of Zaanan
do not come out;
the lamentation of Beth-ezel
shall take away from you its standing place.
Unchecked Copy BoxHag 1:8 - Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 7:5 - “Say to all the people of the land and the priests, ‘When you fasted and mourned in the fifth month and in the seventh, for these seventy years, was it for me that you fasted?
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:10 - “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 12:12 - The land shall mourn, each family[fn] by itself: the family of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the family of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;
Unchecked Copy BoxZec 14:12 - And this shall be the plague with which the LORD will strike all the peoples that wage war against Jerusalem: their flesh will rot while they are still standing on their feet, their eyes will rot in their sockets, and their tongues will rot in their mouths.

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