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Lexicon :: Strong's G2893 - kouphizō

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κουφίζω
Transliteration
kouphizō (Key)
Pronunciation
koo-fid'-zo
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
From kouphos (light in weight)
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Strong’s Definitions

κουφίζω kouphízō, koo-fid'-zo; from κοῦφος koûphos (light in weight); to unload:—lighten.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G2893 in the following manner: lighten (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G2893 in the following manner: lighten (1x).

  1. to be light

  2. to lighten

    1. a ship by throwing the cargo overboard

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κουφίζω kouphízō, koo-fid'-zo; from κοῦφος koûphos (light in weight); to unload:—lighten.
STRONGS G2893:
κουφίζω: imperfect 3 person plural ἐκούφιζον; (κοῦφος light);
1. intransitive, to be light (Hesiod, Euripides, Dio C.).
2. from Hippocrates down, generally translated, to lighten: a ship, by throwing the cargo overboard, Acts 27:38. (the Sept. Jonah 1:5, and often in Polybius)
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Jonah
1:5
Acts
27:38

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2893 matches the Greek κουφίζω (kouphizō),
which occurs 9 times in 9 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:4 - "Your father made us work too hard. Now if you lighten the demands he made and don't make us work as hard, we will serve you."

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:9 - He asked them, "How do you advise me to respond to these people who said to me, 'Lessen the demands your father placed on us'?"

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:10

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:10 - The young advisers with whom Rehoboam had grown up said to him, "Say this to these people who have said to you, 'Your father made us work hard, but now lighten our burden.' Say this to them: 'I am a lot harsher than my father!

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 9:13 - "Everything that has happened to us has come about because of our wicked actions and our great guilt. Even so, our God, you have exercised restraint toward our iniquities and have given us a remnant such as this.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jon 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJon 1:5 - The sailors were so afraid that each cried out to his own god and they flung the ship's cargo overboard to make the ship lighter. Jonah, meanwhile, had gone down into the hold below deck, had lain down, and was sound asleep.
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