Strong G2629κατακόπτω

to cut

Transliteration
katakoptō
Pronunciation
kat-ak-op'-to
Morphology
Greek Verb

Definition

From G2596 and G2875; to chop down that is mangle: - cut.

Detailed definition

κατα-κόπτω
[in LXX for נָכָה hi., כָּתַת pi., etc.;]
to cut up, cut in pieces (cf. Isa.27:9, Jer.21:7, 2Ch.34:7): ἑαυτὸν λίθοις, Mrk.5:5.†
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In the Bible

Strong G2629 appears in 1 verse of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • cut1

First verses

  1. Mark 5:5
    And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
κατα-κόπτω,
cut down, fell, of trees, in passive, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.15.1, “CP” 2.15.4, etc.)]
2 cut in pieces, cut up, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.48, 73, 2.42, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Aves” 1688 (_passive_))], etc.; κρέα [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Euthydemus” 301c)]; κατακοπείς cut in pieces, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 8.92.)]
3 cut down, massacre, butcher, [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] 6.75, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.29)]:—passive, ὥσπερ βόες κατεκόπησαν [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Rh.” 1.235S.)]
4 in a military sense, cut in pieces, 'cut up', τὴν μόραν [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 13.22)]:—passive, κατακοπῆναι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.2.25; κατακεκόψεσθαι [prev. work] 1.5.16.)]
5 κ. πληγαῖς τινα [Refs 4th c.AD+ (“PLips.” 37.20 (4th c.AD), etc.)]
6 generally, break in pieces, destroy, στεφάνους [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 22.70; κέραμον 2nd c.BC: Polybius Historicus 5.25.3)]; ἔρια ὑπὸ τῶν σέων κατακοπτόμενα fretted in pieces, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 730, compare 2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “Ind.” 1: _metaphorically_, κ. τὴν ἀρχήν 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Demetrius” 30; κατακέκοπταί οἱ τὸ τῆς ψυχῆς γαῦρον [prev. author] 2.762f)]; κατεκόπημεν ἄν we should have been made mince-meat of, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Comicus 35.)]
7 weary, bore, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Anaxippus Comicus 1.23, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Σαμία” 70, 77.)]
8 Rhet., λέξις -κεκομμένη 'staccato', jerky composition, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 4.)]
9 in middle, μαστοὺς κατεκόψατο, in vehement grief, [Refs (“epigram Gr.” 316 (from Smyrna).)]
II strike with a die, coin bullion into money, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.96; τὸν θρόνον ὄντα ἀργυροῦν 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 1.5.3; τὰς Χρυσᾶς πλίνθους εἰς νόμισμα 1st c.BC: Diodorus Siculus Historicus 16.56, compare 4th c.BC: Demetrius Phalereus Rhetor “Demetrius on Style” 281, 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Orationes” 14.45.)]