Lexical Summary kopetos: a beating of the head and breast Original Word: κοπετόςTransliteration: kopetos Phonetic Spelling: (kop-et-os') Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: a beating of the head and breast Meaning: a beating of the head and breast Strong's Concordance lamentation. From kopto; mourning (properly, by beating the breast) -- lamentation. see GREEK kopto Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2870: κοπετόςκοπετός, κοπετοῦ, ὁ (from κόπτομαι, see κόπτω), the Sept. for מִסְפֵּד; Latinplanctus, 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.) |
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