noun · masculine

kopetos

Greekκοπετός (kopetos)

Strong’sG2870

lamentation

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

Translated as

lamentation1×

What it means

κοπετός, -οῦ, ὁ

(< κόπτω, mid.), [in LXX chiefly for מִסְפֵּד;]

= cl. κομμός, a beating of the head and breast, lamentation: seq. ἐπί c. dat. pers., Ac 8:2.†

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

Strong’s G2870 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkop-et-os'

mourning (properly, by beating the breast)

Fromfrom G2875;

King Jameslamentation.

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

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	kopetos	kopetois
object accusative	kopeton1×κοπετὸν	kopetoin
direct address vocative	kopetor	kopetoir
of, belonging to genitive	kopetou	kopetoiu
to, for dative	kopeto	kopetoi

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

kopetstem+ogender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

kopeto 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

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

kopeton“lamentation”objectaccusative singular1×

Acts 8:2“lamentation”sunkomizala de ton Stefanon anērois eulabois kai poiala kopeton megon epi auto.God-fearing men buried Stephen and mourned deeply over him.