κοπή
kopḗ · G2871 · Greek · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to kill, to slaughter, to defeat
A violent and extensive slaughter, especially associated with armed conflicts
ExamplesHebrews 7:1 For this Melchizedek, king of Salem, priest of the Most High God, who met Abraham as he was returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- βασιλεύςking 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀπόfrom 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- φόνος phónos · G5408 · murder
- Greek noun denoting killing or slaughter; overlaps with κοπή in referring to violent death/carnage, though φόνος can also denote individual murder while κοπή emphasizes mass cutting/carnage
- σφαγή sphagḗ · G4967 · slaughter, killing, day of condemnation
- Greek noun for slaughter or massacre, particularly in contexts of violent mass killing; very close in sense to κοπή as carnage
In the other Testament 2 words
- הֶרֶג hereg · H2027 · slaughter
- Hebrew noun denoting slaughter or carnage, the direct semantic equivalent of κοπή in its attested sense of massacre/killing
- טֶבַח ṭebach · H2874 · killing, slaughter, butchering, killing, slaughter
- Hebrew noun for slaughter or massacre, often used for violent killing in battle contexts parallel to κοπή
Semantic domains 1 entry
- To kill, to slaughter, to defeat20.74
- κοπή names the act of slaughter, especially in warfare. Hebrews 7:1 describes Melchizedek as the one who met Abraham “when he was returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,” the κοπῆς naming this slaughter of the defeated kings Abraham had just won.
Word family 27 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κοπῆς, ἡ (κόπτω); 1. properly, several times in Greek writings the act of cutting, a cut.…
1. properly, several times in Greek writings the act of cutting, a cut.
2. in Biblical Greek a cutting in pieces, slaughter: Heb 7:1; Gen 14:17; Deut 28:25; Josh 10:20; Judith 15:7.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
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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