Word

κύπτω

kýptō · G2955 · Greek · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

to bend down, to bend over, to stoop down

To bend over and stoop down, with perhaps greater emphasis on the position being ‘down’ than in the case of κύπτω

Examples
Mark 1:7 And he was preaching, saying, “After me One is coming who is mightier than I, and I am not fit to bend down and untie the straps of His sandals.
John 8:6 Now they were saying this to test Him, so that they might have grounds for accusing Him. But Jesus stooped down and with His finger wrote on the ground.

How it’s used In 3 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

2 occurrences in 1 groups

Not stated (participle) 2

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

ἱμάςstrap 1

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

κάτωbelow 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

קָדַד qâdad · H6915 · to bow down: Hebrew קָדַד specifically denotes bowing/stooping the head as a physical posture, directly paralleling Greek κύπτω's sense of bending forward; the Hebrew term captures the same postural semantics that κύπτω conveys in LXX contexts.

Semantic domains 1 entry

To bend down, to stoop down17.29: κύπτω describes stooping or bending down. John 8:6 recounts that when the scribes and Pharisees questioned Jesus about the woman caught in adultery, “Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with His finger,” the κύψας naming this stooping posture He took while writing.

Word family 4 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

κύπτωkýptō · G2955παρακύπτω parakýptō · G3879 · to bend over, to stoop down, to stoop and look into · 5×ἀνακύπτω anakýptō · G352 · to straighten up · 4×συγκύπτω synkýptō · G4794 · to be bent over, to be doubled up · 1×

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist participle κύψας; (from κυβη the head (cf. Vanicek, p. 164; especially…

: 1 aorist participle κύψας; (from κυβη the head (cf. Vanicek, p. 164; especially Curtius, index under the word)); from Homer down; the Sept. chiefly for קָדַד; to bow the head, bend forward, stoop down: Mk 1:7; with κάτω added (Aristophanes vesp. 279), Jn 8:6, Jn 8:8. (Compare: ἀνακύπτω, παρακύπτω, συγκύπτω.)

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Bend Over, Straighten Up2 occurrences

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