κοπρία
kopría · G2874 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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manure pile, dung heap
(Derivative of κόπριον ‘manure,’) A pile or heap of manure
ExamplesLuke 14:35 “It is useless either for the soil or the manure pile, so it is thrown out. The one who has ears to hear, let him hear.”
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
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- βάλλωto throw, to put 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- εἰςto 1
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- פֶּרֶשׁ peresh · H6569 · dung, offal
- Greek κοπρία denotes manure/dung pile as fertilizer or waste heap; Hebrew פֶּרֶשׁ denotes dung/excrement as refuse, both referring to animal waste material in agricultural or disposal contexts.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Manure pile, dung heap8.77
- κοπρία names a heap or pile of manure. Luke 13:8 has the vinedresser pleading for the barren fig tree, “leave it alone for this year too, until I dig around it and put in fertilizer,” the κοπρίαν naming the manure to be applied around its roots.
- Manure, dung8.76
- The same word can also name manure or dung as a substance, apart from a specific heap. Luke 14:35 describes salt that has lost its flavor as “useless either for the soil or the manure pile, so it is thrown out,” the κοπρίαν naming this manure the useless salt cannot even benefit.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon (Chandler § 96), κοπρίας, ἡ, equivalent to ἡ κόπρος, dung: Lk 13:8 Rec.st; (). (Job 2:8;…
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
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