Strong G2873κόπος
labor
- Transliteration
- kopos
- Pronunciation
- kop'-os
- Morphology
- Greek Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From G2875; a cut that is (by analogy) toil (as reducing the strength) literally or figuratively; by implication pains: - labour + trouble weariness.
Detailed definition
κόπος, -ου, ὁ
(κόπτω) [in LXX chiefly for עָמָל, also for אָוֶן, etc.;]
1. a striking, beating (in Jer.45:3 = κοπετός)
2. laborious toil, trouble: Jhn.4:38, 1Co.3:8 15:58, 1Th.3:5; κ. τ. ἀγάπης, 1Th.1:3; ἔργα καὶ κ., Rev.2:2; κ. καὶ μόχθος, 2Co.11:27, 1Th.2:9, 2Th.3:8; pl., ἐν κ., 2Co.6:5 10:15 11:23; ἐκ τ. κ., Rev.14:13; κόπονς (-ον) παρέχειν (in cl. more frequently π. πράγματα, πονον), with dative of person(s), Mat.26:10, Mrk.14:6, Luk.11:7 18:5, Gal.6:17.†
SYN.: μόλθος, labour; πόνος (which see), toil, painful effort; in cl., "π. gives prominence to the effort (work as requiring force), κ. to the fatigue, μ. (chiefly poetic) to the hardship" (Thayer, see word κ.) (AS)
(κόπτω) [in LXX chiefly for עָמָל, also for אָוֶן, etc.;]
1. a striking, beating (in Jer.45:3 = κοπετός)
2. laborious toil, trouble: Jhn.4:38, 1Co.3:8 15:58, 1Th.3:5; κ. τ. ἀγάπης, 1Th.1:3; ἔργα καὶ κ., Rev.2:2; κ. καὶ μόχθος, 2Co.11:27, 1Th.2:9, 2Th.3:8; pl., ἐν κ., 2Co.6:5 10:15 11:23; ἐκ τ. κ., Rev.14:13; κόπονς (-ον) παρέχειν (in cl. more frequently π. πράγματα, πονον), with dative of person(s), Mat.26:10, Mrk.14:6, Luk.11:7 18:5, Gal.6:17.†
SYN.: μόλθος, labour; πόνος (which see), toil, painful effort; in cl., "π. gives prominence to the effort (work as requiring force), κ. to the fatigue, μ. (chiefly poetic) to the hardship" (Thayer, see word κ.) (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2873 appears in 19 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- labour13
- trouble3
- weariness1
First verses
- Matthew 26:10When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
- Mark 14:6And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
- Luke 11:7And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
- Luke 18:5Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
- John 4:38I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
- 1 Corinthians 3:8Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
- 1 Corinthians 15:58Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
- 2 Corinthians 6:5In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
- 2 Corinthians 10:15Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men’s labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
- 2 Corinthians 11:23Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
- 2 Corinthians 11:27In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
- Galatians 6:17From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
- 1 Thessalonians 1:3Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
- 1 Thessalonians 2:9For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
- 1 Thessalonians 3:5For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
- 2 Thessalonians 3:8Neither did we eat any man’s bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
- Hebrews 6:10For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
- Revelation 2:2I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
- Revelation 14:13And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
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Detailed Greek dictionary
κόπ-ος, ὁ,
(κόπτω) striking, beating, ὀξύχειρι σὺν κόπῳ (Pauw for κτύπῳ) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 23 (Lyric poetry))]; στέρνων κόπους (Seidler for κτύπους) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 794 (_anapaest meter_))]; ={κοπανισμός}, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]
II toil and trouble, suffering, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 210 (_plural_); ἀνδροδάϊκτος κόπος [prev. author] “fragment” 132a p. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1265)]; pain of a disease, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 880)]; κόπους παρέχειν τινί to give trouble, [NT+2nd c.BC+ (NT.Matt.26.10, +others, “PTeb.” 21.10 (2nd c.BC), “BGU” 844.10 (1st c.AD))]; κόπον ἔχειν [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.62 K.; πάντα κ. ἀναδεξάμενος “SIG” 761 B 6 (Delph., 1st c.BC).)]
II.2 fatigue, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 21, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.190)]; κόπου ὕπο from very weariness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 634; κόπῳ παρεῖμαι [prev. author] “Ph.” 852)]; κόπῳ δαμέντες, ἁλίσκεσθαι, [NT+5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Rh.” 764, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.40; τῷ κ. ξυνεῖναι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 321; τὰ γόνατα κ. ἕλοι μου [prev. author] “Lys.” 542: in _plural_, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 124; κόποι καὶ ὕπνοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 537b, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 4.2, NT.2Cor.6.5, etc.)]; περὶ κόπων title of work by [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus)]
II.3 work, exertion, καμάραν ἀφ᾽ ἱδίων κόπων ἐποίησεν [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“IG” 12(7).384 (from Amorgos), compare “BGU” 884.10 (1st c.AD))]; κόπῳ κόπον λύειν proverbial in [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus “Eup.” 1.2.8.)]
(κόπτω) striking, beating, ὀξύχειρι σὺν κόπῳ (Pauw for κτύπῳ) [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Choephori” 23 (Lyric poetry))]; στέρνων κόπους (Seidler for κτύπους) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 794 (_anapaest meter_))]; ={κοπανισμός}, [Refs 5th c.AD+ (5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)]
II toil and trouble, suffering, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Supplices” 210 (_plural_); ἀνδροδάϊκτος κόπος [prev. author] “fragment” 132a p. 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 1265)]; pain of a disease, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Philoctetes” 880)]; κόπους παρέχειν τινί to give trouble, [NT+2nd c.BC+ (NT.Matt.26.10, +others, “PTeb.” 21.10 (2nd c.BC), “BGU” 844.10 (1st c.AD))]; κόπον ἔχειν [Refs 1st c.BC+ (1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.62 K.; πάντα κ. ἀναδεξάμενος “SIG” 761 B 6 (Delph., 1st c.BC).)]
II.2 fatigue, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “περὶ ἀρχαίης ἰητρικῇς” 21, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 6.190)]; κόπου ὕπο from very weariness, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Bacchae” 634; κόπῳ παρεῖμαι [prev. author] “Ph.” 852)]; κόπῳ δαμέντες, ἁλίσκεσθαι, [NT+5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Rh.” 764, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 7.40; τῷ κ. ξυνεῖναι 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Plutus” 321; τὰ γόνατα κ. ἕλοι μου [prev. author] “Lys.” 542: in _plural_, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Rhesus” 124; κόποι καὶ ὕπνοι 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 537b, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 4.2, NT.2Cor.6.5, etc.)]; περὶ κόπων title of work by [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus)]
II.3 work, exertion, καμάραν ἀφ᾽ ἱδίων κόπων ἐποίησεν [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“IG” 12(7).384 (from Amorgos), compare “BGU” 884.10 (1st c.AD))]; κόπῳ κόπον λύειν proverbial in [Refs 4th c.AD+ (4th c.AD: Oribasius Medicus “Eup.” 1.2.8.)]