kopas

Strong’sG2871

slaughter

stem kop-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

κοπή, -ῆς, ἡ

(< κόπτω), [in LXX: Ge 14:17, Jos 10:20 (נכה hi., מַכָּה), De 28:25 (נגף), Jth 15:7*;]

1. in cl., a stroke, a pounding (as in a mortar).

2. In LXX, a smiting in battle: He 7:1(LXX).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2871 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkop-ay'

cutting, i.e. carnage

Fromfrom G2875;

King Jamesslaughter.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

κοπή, ἡ,
cutting, χόρτος εἰς κοπὴν καὶ ἐπινομήν Refs 2nd c.AD+
2 cutting in pieces, slaughter, LXX+NT
3 κ. τριχός, tax levied on γερδιοραβδισταί, Refs 4th c.BC+
4 breaking up, [νεφῶν] Refs 4th c.BC+
5 pounding in a mortar, Refs 3rd c.AD+
6 dressing of stone, Refs 3rd c.AD+
7 striking, minting, νομίσματος Refs 2nd c.BC+
8 divorce, LXX+2nd c.AD+
II ={κόπος} 11, φλοίσβου μετὰ κοπήν Refs 5th c.BC+

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

slaughter1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	kopas	kopais
object accusative	kopan	kopain
direct address vocative	kopar	kopair
of, belonging to genitive	kopau1×κοπῆς	kopaiu
to, for dative	kopa	kopai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

kopstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

kopa is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Words built on the same stem

Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.

kopos — κόπος, trouble, toil, labor

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

kopau“slaughter”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Hebrews 7:1… tos sunantarantos Abraam hupostrefarōnto apo tau kopau toiu basilevoiu kai eulogarantos auton,… He met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings and blessed him,