κατακόπτω
katakóptō · G2629 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to cut
To cut severely with some sharp instrument or object
ExamplesMark 5:5 Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains, and cutting himself with stones.
How it’s used In 2 roles
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the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- Not stated (participle) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἑαυτοῦhimself, herself, itself 1
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Near synonyms 1 word
- τραυματίζω traumatízō · G5135 · to hurt, to wound
- Greek verb meaning to wound or inflict bodily harm; functionally synonymous with κατακόπτω in contexts of self-harm or bodily damage, with τραυματίζω focusing on the resulting wound rather than the cutting action itself
In the other Testament 2 words
- גָּדַד gâdad · H1413 · to cut oneself, to gash oneself, to lacerate oneself
- Hebrew verb for cutting/gashing oneself, often in ritualistic contexts (1 Kings 18:28, Jer 41:5); shares the semantic field of violent cutting action that κατακόπτω expresses in Mark 5:5 where the demoniac was cutting himself with stones
- כָּרַת kârath · H3772 · to cut, to cut off, to cut down
- Common Hebrew verb for cutting, cutting down, or cutting off; the broad semantic range overlaps with κατακόπτω's basic sense of chopping/cutting, though כָּרַת is more frequently used for covenant-making and cutting off/destroying
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To cut19.21
- In Mark 5:5, of the demon-possessed man it is written, “Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains, and cutting himself with stones,” using this word for the act of inflicting a cut or gash on oneself.
Word family 27 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon 1. to cut up, cut to pieces (see κατά, III. 4); to slay: Isa 27:9; 2 Chr 34:7, etc.;…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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