κόπτω
kóptō · G2875 · Greek · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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to cut
To cut, by means of a sharp-edged instrument (for example, knife, sword, or ax)
ExamplesMatthew 21:8 Most of the crowd spread their cloaks on the road, and others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road.
Mark 11:8 And many people spread their cloaks on the road, and others spread leafy branches which they had cut from the fields.
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to mourn, to lament, to beat the breast, mourning, lamentation
To beat the breast and lament as an expression of sorrow
ExamplesMatthew 11:17 and say, ‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a song of mourning, and you did not mourn.’
Matthew 24:30 “And then the sign of the Son of Man will appear in the sky, and then all the tribes of the earth will mourn, and they will see the SON OF MAN COMING ON THE CLOUDS OF THE SKY with power and great glory.
Luke 8:52 Now they were all weeping and mourning for her; but He said, “Stop weeping, for she has not died, but is asleep.”
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
8 occurrences in 7 groups
- φυλήtribe, nation, people 2
- ἄλλοςother, another 1
- ὅςwho, which, that 1
- πᾶςall, every, each 1
- βασιλεύςking 1
- Not stated: you (more than one) 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 2
- κλάδοςbranch (of a tree or woody shrub) 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἐπίon+ αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 2
- ἐκfrom+ ἀγρόςfield, countryside 1
- ἀπόfrom+ δένδρονtree 1
With adverbsAdverbs
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- οὐnot 1
- τότεthen 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- γυνήwoman, wife 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
- סָפַד çâphad · H5594 · to mourn
- Greek κόπτω denotes the physical action of beating the breast as a mourning gesture, while Hebrew סָפַד denotes the verbal/behavioral act of lamentation itself; the two consistently co-occur because breast-beating was one concrete manifestation of the mourning practices סָפַד described, making them translation equivalents for mourning contexts despite their differing focal aspects (physical gesture vs. vocal/ritual mourning).
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To cut19.17
- κόπτω can describe the physical act of cutting. Matthew 21:8 recounts the crowds greeting Jesus, as “others were cutting branches from the trees and spreading them on the road,” the ἔκοπτον naming this cutting of branches for His entry into Jerusalem.
- To mourn, to lament, to beat the breast, mourning, lamentation52.1
- The same verb, in its middle voice, describes mourning by beating one’s breast. Luke 8:52 recounts that at Jairus’s house, “they were all weeping and mourning for her; but He said, ‘Stop weeping, for she has not died, but is asleep,’” the ἐκόπτοντο naming this loud mourning over the girl they believed dead.
Word family 28 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Also from the root κόπτω
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : imperfect 3 person plural ἔκοπτον; 1 aorist participle κοψας (Mk 11:8 T Tr text WH);…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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