κόπος kopos

Greek word for “labor” · Strong’s G2873 · used 18 times in 18 verses

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Meaning

κόπος, -ου, ὁ; (κόπτω);

How it is translated

Glosses given for kopos in context, with how often each is used:

• labor 8
• trouble 4
• labors 4
• toil 1
• troubles 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

2 Corinthians 11 (2), Matthew 26 (1), Mark 14 (1), Luke 11 (1), Luke 18 (1), John 4 (1), 1 Corinthians 3 (1), 1 Corinthians 15 (1), 2 Corinthians 6 (1), 2 Corinthians 10 (1)

Forms

• κόπον 5
• κόπους 4
• κόποις 3
• κόπος 2
• κόπῳ 2
• κόπου 1
• κόπων 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with kopos more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• παρέχω parechō “to furnish occasion” 5
• μόχθος mochthos “toil” 3
• ἔργον ergon “work” 6
• ἐργάζομαι ergazomai “to work” 4
• ἀγρυπνία agrupnia “sleeplessness” 2
• ἐπιβαρέω epibareō “to burden” 2
• νηστεία nēsteia “fasting” 2
• κενός kenos “empty” 2
• πολλάκις pollakis “often” 2
• πληγή plēgē “plague/blow/wound” 2
• μνημονεύω mnēmoneuō “to remember” 2
• βαστάζω bastazō “to carry” 2

Key verses

The verses using kopos that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Mark 14:6 — And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
• 1 Corinthians 3:8 — Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
• 1 Corinthians 15:58 — Therefore, 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…
• 2 Corinthians 6:5 — In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
• 2 Corinthians 11:23 — Are 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 11:27 — In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
• 1 Thessalonians 1:3 — Remembering 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 2:9 — For 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…
• 1 Thessalonians 3:5 — For 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 3:8 — Neither 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:
• Revelation 2:2 — I 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…
• Revelation 14:13 — And 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…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.