Lexical Summary kopos: laborious toil Original Word: κόποςTransliteration: kopos Phonetic Spelling: (kop'-os) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: laborious toil Meaning: laborious toil Strong's Concordance labour, trouble, weariness. From kopto; a cut, i.e. (by analogy) toil (as reducing the strength), literally or figuratively; by implication, pains -- labour, + trouble, weariness. see GREEK kopto Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2873: κόποςκόπος, κόπου, ὁ (κόπτω); 1. equivalent to τό κόπτειν, a beating. 2. equivalent to κοπετός, a beating of the breast in grief, sorrow (Jeremiah 51:33 3. labor (so the Sept. often for עָמָל), i. e. a. trouble (Aeschylus, Sophocles): κόπους παρέχειν τίνι, to cause one trouble, make work for him, Matthew 26:10; Mark 14:6; Luke 11:7; Galatians 6:17; κόπον παρέχειν τίνι, Luke 18:5. b. intense labor united with trouble, toil. (Euripides, Arstph;, others): universally, plural, 2 Corinthians 6:5; 2 Corinthians 11:23; of manual labor, joined with μόχθος ((see below)), 1 Thessalonians 2:9; ἐν κόπῳ καί μόχθῳ (toil and travail), 2 Corinthians 11:27 (where L T Tr WH omit ἐν); 2 Thessalonians 3:8; of the laborious efforts of Christian virtue, 1 Corinthians 15:58; Revelation 2:2; plural Revelation 14:13; ὁ κόπος τῆς ἀγάπης, the labor to which love prompts, and which voluntarily assumes and endures trouble and pains for the salvation of others, 1 Thessalonians 1:3; Hebrews 6:10 Rec.; of toil in teaching, John 4:38 (on which see εἰς, B. I. 3); 1 Thessalonians 3:5; of that which such toil in teaching accomplishes, 1 Corinthians 3:8; plural 2 Corinthians 10:15 (cf. Sir. 14:15). |
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