Lexicon kopetos: a beating of the head and breast Original Word: κοπετός, οῦ, ὁPart of Speech: Noun, Masculine Transliteration: kopetos Phonetic Spelling: (kop-et-os') Short Definition: lamentation Definition: beating of the breast or head in lamentation, lamentation. NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom koptóDefinitiona beating of the head and breast NASB Translationlamentation (1).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 2870: κοπετόςκοπετός, κοπετοῦ, ὁ (from κόπτομαι, see κόπτω), the Sept. for מִסְפֵּד; Latin planctus, i. e. lamentation with beating of the breast as n sign of grief: κοπετόν ποιεῖσθαι ἐπί τίνι, Acts 8:2; ἐπί τινα, Zechariah 12:10. ( Eupolis in Bekker's annott. ad Etym. Magn., p. 776; Dionysius Halicarnassus, Antiquities 11, 31; Plutarch, Fab. 17.)
Strong's lamentation. From kopto; mourning (properly, by beating the breast) -- lamentation. see GREEK kopto |
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