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Lexicon :: Strong's G2873 - kopos

Aa
κόπος
Transliteration
kopos (Key)
Pronunciation
kop'-os
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:827,453

Trench's Synonyms: cii. μόχθος, πόνος, κόπος.

Strong’s Definitions

κόπος kópos, kop'-os; from G2875; a cut, i.e. (by analogy) toil (as reducing the strength), literally or figuratively; by implication, pains:—labour, + trouble, weariness.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 19x

The KJV translates Strong's G2873 in the following manner: labour (13x), trouble (with G3830) (5x), weariness (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 19x
The KJV translates Strong's G2873 in the following manner: labour (13x), trouble (with G3830) (5x), weariness (1x).

  1. a beating

  2. a beating of the breast with grief, sorrow

  3. labour

    1. trouble

      1. to cause one trouble, make work for him

    2. intense labour united with trouble and toil

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κόπος kópos, kop'-os; from G2875; a cut, i.e. (by analogy) toil (as reducing the strength), literally or figuratively; by implication, pains:—labour, + trouble, weariness.
STRONGS G2873:
κόπος, κόπου, ὁ (κόπτω);
1. equivalent to τό κόπτειν, a beating.
2. equivalent to κοπετός, a beating of the breast in grief, sorrow (Jeremiah 51:33 (Jer. 45:3)).
3. labor (so the Sept. often for עָמָל), i. e.
a. trouble (Aeschylus, Sophocles): κόπους παρέχειν τίνι, to cause one trouble, make work for him, Matthew 26:10; Mark 14:6; Luke 11:7; Galatians 6:17; κόπον παρέχειν τίνι, Luke 18:5.
b. intense labor united with trouble, toil. (Euripides, Arstph;, others): universally, plural, 2 Corinthians 6:5; 2 Corinthians 11:23; of manual labor, joined with μόχθος ((see below)), 1 Thessalonians 2:9; ἐν κόπῳ καί μόχθῳ (toil and travail), 2 Corinthians 11:27 (where L T Tr WH omit ἐν); 2 Thessalonians 3:8; of the laborious efforts of Christian virtue, 1 Corinthians 15:58; Revelation 2:2; plural Revelation 14:13; ὁ κόπος τῆς ἀγάπης, the labor to which love prompts, and which voluntarily assumes and endures trouble and pains for the salvation of others, 1 Thessalonians 1:3; Hebrews 6:10 Rec.; of toil in teaching, John 4:38 (on which see εἰς, B. I. 3); 1 Thessalonians 3:5; of that which such toil in teaching accomplishes, 1 Corinthians 3:8; plural 2 Corinthians 10:15 (cf. Sir. 14:15).
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Jeremiah
45:3; 51:33
Matthew
26:10
Mark
14:6
Luke
11:7; 18:5
John
4:38
1 Corinthians
3:8; 15:58
2 Corinthians
6:5; 10:15; 11:23; 11:27
Galatians
6:17
1 Thessalonians
1:3; 2:9; 3:5
2 Thessalonians
3:8
Hebrews
6:10
Revelation
2:2; 14:13

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2873 matches the Greek κόπος (kopos),
which occurs 26 times in 26 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:42

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:42 - Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the Fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now hadst thou sent me away empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:12 - How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 10:16 - And they put away the foreign gods from among them, and served Jehovah; and his soul was grieved for the misery of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:13

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 5:13 - Also I shook out my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labor, that performeth not this promise; even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the assembly said, Amen, and praised Jehovah. And the people did according to this promise.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 4:2 -
If one assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved?
But who can withhold himself from speaking?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:6 -
For affliction cometh not forth from the dust,
Neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:7 -
But man is born unto trouble,
As the sparks fly upward.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 11:16 -
For thou shalt forget thy misery;
Thou shalt remember it as waters that are passed away,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 10:7 -
His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression:
Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:18

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 25:18 -
Consider mine affliction and my travail;
And forgive all my sins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 55:10 -
Day and night they go about it upon the walls thereof:
Iniquity also and mischief are in the midst of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:5 -
They are not in trouble as other men;
Neither are they plagued like other men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:16

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 73:16 -
When I thought how I might know this,
It was too painful for me;

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:15

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 88:15 -
I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up:
While I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 90:10 -
The days of our years are threescore years and ten,
Or even by reason of strength fourscore years;
Yet is their pride but labor and sorrow;
For it is soon gone, and we fly away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:20

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 94:20 -
Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee,
Which frameth mischief by statute?

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:12

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 107:12 -
Therefore he brought down their heart with labor;
They fell down, and there was none to help.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 140:9 -
As for the head of those that compass me about,
Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:18 - Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labor and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 45:3 - Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for Jehovah hath added sorrow to my pain; I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 12:3 - In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he had power with God:

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:1

Unchecked Copy BoxMic 2:1 - Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 1:3 - Why dost thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? for destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:7

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 3:7 -
I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction;
The curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:2

Unchecked Copy BoxZec 10:2 - For the teraphim have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie; and they have told false dreams, they comfort in vain: therefore they go their way like sheep, they are afflicted, because there is no shepherd.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:13

Unchecked Copy BoxMal 2:13 - And this again ye do: ye cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, neither receiveth it with good will at your hand.
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