Strong G2875κόπτω
to cut/mourn
- Transliteration
- koptō
- Pronunciation
- kop'-to
- Morphology
- Greek Verb
Definition
A primary verb; to chop; specifically to beat the breast in grief: - cut down lament mourn (be-) wail. Compare the base of G5114 .
Detailed definition
κόπτω
[in LXX for כָּרַת, סָפַד, נָכָה hi., etc.;]
1. to strike, smite.
2. to cut off: with accusative of thing(s), before ἀπό, Mat.21:8; ἐκ, Mrk.11:8. Mid., to beat one's breast with grief, to mourn, bewail: Mat.11:17 24:30; with accusative of person(s), Luk.8:52 23:27; before ἐπί, with accusative, Rev.1:7 18:9 (cf. ἀνα-, ἀπο-, ἐκ-, ἐν-, κατα-, προ-, προσ-κόπτω).†
SYN.: θρηνέω, q.v (AS)
[in LXX for כָּרַת, סָפַד, נָכָה hi., etc.;]
1. to strike, smite.
2. to cut off: with accusative of thing(s), before ἀπό, Mat.21:8; ἐκ, Mrk.11:8. Mid., to beat one's breast with grief, to mourn, bewail: Mat.11:17 24:30; with accusative of person(s), Luk.8:52 23:27; before ἐπί, with accusative, Rev.1:7 18:9 (cf. ἀνα-, ἀπο-, ἐκ-, ἐν-, κατα-, προ-, προσ-κόπτω).†
SYN.: θρηνέω, q.v (AS)
In the Bible
Strong G2875 appears in 8 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- bewail2
- cut2
- lament2
- mourn1
- shall1
- wail1
- ye1
First verses
- Matthew 11:17And saying, We have piped unto you, and ye have not danced; we have mourned unto you, and ye have not lamented.
- Matthew 21:8And a very great multitude spread their garments in the way; others cut down branches from the trees, and strawed them in the way.
- Matthew 24:30And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.
- Mark 11:8And many spread their garments in the way: and others cut down branches off the trees, and strawed them in the way.
- Luke 8:52And all wept, and bewailed her: but he said, Weep not; she is not dead, but sleepeth.
- Luke 23:27And there followed him a great company of people, and of women, which also bewailed and lamented him.
- Revelation 1:7Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen.
- Revelation 18:9And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
Occurrences by book
Related words
Detailed Greek dictionary
κόπτω,
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.28, etc.)]: future κόψω [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Hipponax Iambographus 83, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 64, etc.:)]aorist ἔκοψα, Epic dialect κόψα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.203:)]perfect κέκοφα (ἐκ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.5.37, (περι-) 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 14.42, (συγ-) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 169b)]; Epic dialect participle κεκοπώς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.60 (variant -φώς, -πών), 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.335)]:—middle, future κόψομαι [LXX (LXX.Eze.6.9)]: aorist ἐκοψάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.166:)] —passive, future κεκόψομαι (ἀπο-) [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1125, (ἐκ-) [prev. author] “Ra.” 1223, (κατα-) 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.5.16, κοπήσομαι LXX.Jer.8.2, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.759)]: aorist ἐκόπην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1278, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 723, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.13)]: perfect κέκομμαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 683)]:— cut, strike,
1 smite, ο᾽ ἀμφὶ κάρη κεκοπὼς χερσὶ στιβαρῇσι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.335: with double _accusative_, κόψε δὲ παπτήναντα παρήϊον)] smote him on the cheek, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.690.)]
2 smite with weapons, κόπτοντες δούρεσσι μετάφρενον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.528; τοῖσι Πέρσῃσι εἵποντο κόπτοντες 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.113)]: metaphorically in passive, with play on words, αἰεὶ κόπτῃ ῥήμασι καὶ κοπίσιν [Refs (“Anthologia Graeca” 11.335.)]
3 smite, slaughter an animal with an axe or mallet, κόψας ἐξόπιθεν κεράων βοός [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.521, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.425, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.1.6; in Trag., 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1278, “Eu.” 635, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 838.)]
4 cut off, chop off, κεφαλὴν ἀπὸ δειρῆς κόψεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.203; χεῖράς τ᾽ ἠδὲ πόδας κόπτον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.477; κ. [τὰ γέρρα] ταῖς μαχαίραις 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.6.26)]; κ. δένδρα cut down or fell trees, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.75, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.2.39, 43)]; κ. τὴν χώραν lay it waste, [Refs ([prev. work] 3.2.26, 4.6.5)]:—in passive, of ships, to be shattered, disabled by the enemy, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.14, 8.13:— _metaphorically_, φρενῶν κεκομμένος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 479 (Lyric poetry))]; τὸν ὕπνον ἁ φροντὶς κόπτοισα preventing, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 21.28)]; [πνεῦμα] κοπτόμενον being suddenly stopped, arrested, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 367a10.)]
5 strike, beat a horse, to make him go faster, κόψε δ᾽ Ὀδυσσεὺς τόξῳ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.513)]; also σκηπανίῳ Γαιήοχος ἀμφοτέρω (i.e. Αἴαντε) κεκοπὼς πλῆσεν μένεος [Refs (13.60.)]
6 hammer, forge, κόπτε δὲ δεσμούς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (18.379, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.274)]; later, stamp metal, i.e. coin money, κ. νόμισμα [Refs 6th c.BC+ (“IG” 12(5).480.11 (Siphnos, Athenian Law), 6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 4, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.56)]:—middle, coin oneself money, order to be coined, κ. χρυσοῦ καὶ ἀργύρου νόμισμα [Refs ([prev. author] 1.94, compare 4.166)]:—passive, of money, to be stamped or coined, [νομίσμασιν] μόνοις ὀρθῶς κοπεῖσι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 723, compare 726.)]
7 knock or rap at, τὴν θύραν [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Nu.” 132, “Pl.” 1097, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.41, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.7, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 538, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ κακιῶν ί” p.30 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alcibiades” 8, etc.)]; without θύραν, οὗτος, τί κόπτει; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 976.)]
8 pound, bray in a mortar, κυπἐρου κεκομμένου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.71)]; ἀσταφίδα κεκ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 127.4)]; ἔλαιον κεκ., i.e. pure oil, [LXX (LXX.3Ki.5.11.)]
9 knock, dash about, τὸ ὕδωρ ὅταν κοπῇ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 60b; κόνις.. κοπτομένη.. ὑφ᾽ ἅρμασι 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 63; θάλασσα κοπτομένη πνοιαῖς 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.16.)]
10 of birds, peck, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 609b5)]; ὁ ἁλιάετος.. τὰ λιμναῖα κ. preys on the lagoon life, [Refs ([prev. work] 593b24)]; σπειρὴν κ. peck at, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 449)]; of fish, gnaw, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 620b17)]; of a snake, strike, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.204)]:—passive, of wood or seeds, to be worm-eaten, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.18.5, 8.11.2.)]
10.b munch, masticate, uncertain in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Chionides Comicus 6.)]
11 ὁ ἵππος κ. τὸν ἀναβάτην jars his rider by his paces, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 1.4)]:—passive,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 8.7, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 21.)]
12 κ. ὄνους dress, prepare mill-stones for use, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 13)]; set, sharpen, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 6.84)]:—middle, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 11.253 (1st c.AD: Lucillius Epigrammaticus).)]
13 metaphorically, tire out, weary, μήθ᾽ ὑμῖν ἐνοχλῶ μήτ᾽ ἐμαυτὸν κ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Prooemia” 29, compare 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 2.3; λέγων φαίνου τι δὴ καινὸν.., ἢ μὴ κόπτε με Hegesippus Epigrammaticus 1.3, compare 3rd c.BC(?): Sosipater Comicus 1.20; μὴ κόπτ᾽ ἔμ᾽, ἀλλὰ τὰ κρέα 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 173.12; κ. τὴν ἀκρόασιν 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 19; κ. τὰ ὦτα 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 6.119; κ. ἐρωτήμασιν ἀκαίροις 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Phocion” 7, cf. Moer. p.74)] P.:—passive, to be worn out, κοπτόμενοι ἀεὶ ταῖς στρατείαις [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.16)].
II middle κόπτομαι, beat or strike oneself, beat one's breast or head through grief, κεφαλὴν δ᾽ ὅ γε κόψατο χερσίν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.33, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.121.δ (also _active_ τί κόπτεις τὴν κεφαλή; 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἥρως” 4); κόπτεσθαι μέτωπα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.58 (with μαχαίρῃσι added 2.61): _absolutely_, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 60b, “R.” 619c)]: perfect passive, [πόλις] κέκοπται [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 683)]:—active with accusative cognate, ἐκοψα κομμὸν Ἄριον [Refs ([prev. author] “Ch.” 423 (Lyric poetry).)]
II.2 κόπτεσθαί τινα mourn for any one, κόπτεσθ᾽ Ἄδωνιν [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 396, cf. NT.Luke.8.52; but also ἐπί τινα NT.Rev.1.7, 18.9 (variant{αὐτῇ}))]. (Cf. Lithuanian kapóti, Lett. kapāt 'chop small', 'beat', 'stamp', Latin capo 'capon', perhaps σκέπαρνον.)
[Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.28, etc.)]: future κόψω [Refs 6th c.BC+ (6th c.BC: Hipponax Iambographus 83, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Περικειρομένη” 64, etc.:)]aorist ἔκοψα, Epic dialect κόψα [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.203:)]perfect κέκοφα (ἐκ-) [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 6.5.37, (περι-) 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 14.42, (συγ-) 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Theaetetus” 169b)]; Epic dialect participle κεκοπώς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.60 (variant -φώς, -πών), 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.335)]:—middle, future κόψομαι [LXX (LXX.Eze.6.9)]: aorist ἐκοψάμην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.166:)] —passive, future κεκόψομαι (ἀπο-) [LXX+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 1125, (ἐκ-) [prev. author] “Ra.” 1223, (κατα-) 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 1.5.16, κοπήσομαι LXX.Jer.8.2, 2nd c.AD: Galenus Medicus 13.759)]: aorist ἐκόπην [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1278, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 723, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 8.13)]: perfect κέκομμαι [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 683)]:— cut, strike,
1 smite, ο᾽ ἀμφὶ κάρη κεκοπὼς χερσὶ στιβαρῇσι [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 18.335: with double _accusative_, κόψε δὲ παπτήναντα παρήϊον)] smote him on the cheek, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.690.)]
2 smite with weapons, κόπτοντες δούρεσσι μετάφρενον [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.528; τοῖσι Πέρσῃσι εἵποντο κόπτοντες 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.113)]: metaphorically in passive, with play on words, αἰεὶ κόπτῃ ῥήμασι καὶ κοπίσιν [Refs (“Anthologia Graeca” 11.335.)]
3 smite, slaughter an animal with an axe or mallet, κόψας ἐξόπιθεν κεράων βοός [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 17.521, compare 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 14.425, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 2.1.6; in Trag., 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 1278, “Eu.” 635, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Electra” 838.)]
4 cut off, chop off, κεφαλὴν ἀπὸ δειρῆς κόψεν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 13.203; χεῖράς τ᾽ ἠδὲ πόδας κόπτον 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 22.477; κ. [τὰ γέρρα] ταῖς μαχαίραις 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Anabasis” 4.6.26)]; κ. δένδρα cut down or fell trees, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.75, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.2.39, 43)]; κ. τὴν χώραν lay it waste, [Refs ([prev. work] 3.2.26, 4.6.5)]:—in passive, of ships, to be shattered, disabled by the enemy, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 4.14, 8.13:— _metaphorically_, φρενῶν κεκομμένος 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 479 (Lyric poetry))]; τὸν ὕπνον ἁ φροντὶς κόπτοισα preventing, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 21.28)]; [πνεῦμα] κοπτόμενον being suddenly stopped, arrested, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Meteorologica” 367a10.)]
5 strike, beat a horse, to make him go faster, κόψε δ᾽ Ὀδυσσεὺς τόξῳ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 10.513)]; also σκηπανίῳ Γαιήοχος ἀμφοτέρω (i.e. Αἴαντε) κεκοπὼς πλῆσεν μένεος [Refs (13.60.)]
6 hammer, forge, κόπτε δὲ δεσμούς [Refs 8th c.BC+ (18.379, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 8.274)]; later, stamp metal, i.e. coin money, κ. νόμισμα [Refs 6th c.BC+ (“IG” 12(5).480.11 (Siphnos, Athenian Law), 6th c.BC: Xenophanes Poeta Philosophus 4, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 3.56)]:—middle, coin oneself money, order to be coined, κ. χρυσοῦ καὶ ἀργύρου νόμισμα [Refs ([prev. author] 1.94, compare 4.166)]:—passive, of money, to be stamped or coined, [νομίσμασιν] μόνοις ὀρθῶς κοπεῖσι [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ranae” 723, compare 726.)]
7 knock or rap at, τὴν θύραν [Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. author] “Nu.” 132, “Pl.” 1097, 5th-6th c.BC: Andocides Orator 1.41, 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Historia Graeca (Hellenica)” 5.4.7, 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἐπιτρέποντες” 538, 1st c.BC: Philodemus Philosophus “περὶ κακιῶν ί” p.30 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Alcibiades” 8, etc.)]; without θύραν, οὗτος, τί κόπτει; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Ecclesiazusae” 976.)]
8 pound, bray in a mortar, κυπἐρου κεκομμένου [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.71)]; ἀσταφίδα κεκ. [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 127.4)]; ἔλαιον κεκ., i.e. pure oil, [LXX (LXX.3Ki.5.11.)]
9 knock, dash about, τὸ ὕδωρ ὅταν κοπῇ [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Timaeus” 60b; κόνις.. κοπτομένη.. ὑφ᾽ ἅρμασι 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 63; θάλασσα κοπτομένη πνοιαῖς 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 22.16.)]
10 of birds, peck, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 609b5)]; ὁ ἁλιάετος.. τὰ λιμναῖα κ. preys on the lagoon life, [Refs ([prev. work] 593b24)]; σπειρὴν κ. peck at, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Aratus Epicus 449)]; of fish, gnaw, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 620b17)]; of a snake, strike, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.204)]:—passive, of wood or seeds, to be worm-eaten, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Theophrastus Philosophus “Historia Plantarum” 3.18.5, 8.11.2.)]
10.b munch, masticate, uncertain in [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Chionides Comicus 6.)]
11 ὁ ἵππος κ. τὸν ἀναβάτην jars his rider by his paces, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “de Equitandi ratione” 1.4)]:—passive,[Refs 5th c.BC+ ([prev. work] 8.7, 5th c.BC: Hippocrates Medicus “Aër.” 21.)]
12 κ. ὄνους dress, prepare mill-stones for use, [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 13)]; set, sharpen, [Refs 3rd c.BC+ (3rd c.BC: Herodas Mimographus 6.84)]:—middle, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (“Anthologia Graeca” 11.253 (1st c.AD: Lucillius Epigrammaticus).)]
13 metaphorically, tire out, weary, μήθ᾽ ὑμῖν ἐνοχλῶ μήτ᾽ ἐμαυτὸν κ. [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator “Prooemia” 29, compare 4th c.AD: Alciphro Epistolographus 2.3; λέγων φαίνου τι δὴ καινὸν.., ἢ μὴ κόπτε με Hegesippus Epigrammaticus 1.3, compare 3rd c.BC(?): Sosipater Comicus 1.20; μὴ κόπτ᾽ ἔμ᾽, ἀλλὰ τὰ κρέα 2nd c.AD: Alexander Rhetor 173.12; κ. τὴν ἀκρόασιν 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis “de Compositione Verborum” 19; κ. τὰ ὦτα 2nd c.AD(?): Pollianus Epigrammaticus 6.119; κ. ἐρωτήμασιν ἀκαίροις 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Phocion” 7, cf. Moer. p.74)] P.:—passive, to be worn out, κοπτόμενοι ἀεὶ ταῖς στρατείαις [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th c.BC: Demosthenes Orator 2.16)].
II middle κόπτομαι, beat or strike oneself, beat one's breast or head through grief, κεφαλὴν δ᾽ ὅ γε κόψατο χερσίν [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.33, compare 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.121.δ (also _active_ τί κόπτεις τὴν κεφαλή; 4th-3rd c.BC: Menander Comicus “Ἥρως” 4); κόπτεσθαι μέτωπα 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 6.58 (with μαχαίρῃσι added 2.61): _absolutely_, 5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Phaedo” 60b, “R.” 619c)]: perfect passive, [πόλις] κέκοπται [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 683)]:—active with accusative cognate, ἐκοψα κομμὸν Ἄριον [Refs ([prev. author] “Ch.” 423 (Lyric poetry).)]
II.2 κόπτεσθαί τινα mourn for any one, κόπτεσθ᾽ Ἄδωνιν [NT+5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 396, cf. NT.Luke.8.52; but also ἐπί τινα NT.Rev.1.7, 18.9 (variant{αὐτῇ}))]. (Cf. Lithuanian kapóti, Lett. kapāt 'chop small', 'beat', 'stamp', Latin capo 'capon', perhaps σκέπαρνον.)