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G2874 κοπρία (kopría)
Greek
Noun, Feminine and Neuter
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Quick Definition

manure

Strong's Definition

perhaps akin to G2875 (κόπτω)); manure

Derivation: from (ordure;

KJV Usage: dung(-hill)

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

κοπρία (Chandler § 96), κοπρίας, ἡ, equivalent to ἡ κόπρος, dung: Luk_13:8 Rec.st; (). (Job_2:8; 1Sa_2:8; Neh_2:13; 1Ma_2:62; (Strabo, Pollux, others).) STRONGS NT 2874: κόπριονκόπριον, κόπριον, τό, equivalent to ἡ κόπρος, dung, manure: plural, Luk_13:8 (Rec.st κοπρίαν). (Heraclitus in Plutarch, mor., p. 669 (quaest. conviv. book iv. quaest. iv. § 3, 6); Strabo 16, § 26, p. 784; Epictetus diss. 2, 4, 5; Plutarch, Pomp c. 48; (Isa_5:25; Jer_32:19 (); Sir_22:2), and other later writings.)

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

κοπρία kopria 1x dung, manure, Luk_14:35 κόπριον koprion 1x dung, manure, Luk_13:8

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

κοπρία , -ας , ἡ , [in LXX chiefly for H830 ;] a dung hill ( 1Sa_2:8 , Psa_113:7 al. ): Luk_14:35 .† κόπριον , -ου , τό , [in LXX ( pl .): Jer_25:33 ( H1828 ), Sir_22:2 , 1Ma_2:62 * ;] = κόπρος , dung: pl ., Luk_13:8 ( WH , mg ., κόφινον κοπρίων ).†

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

κοπρία [page 355] This NT ἅπ . εἰρ . ( Luk_14:35 ) may be illustrated from P Oxy 1. 37 i. 6 (A.D. 49) (= Selections , p. 49) Πεσοῦρις . . . ἀνεῖλεν ἀπὸ κοπρίας ἀρρενικὸν σωμάτιον ὄνομα Ἡρακ [λᾶν , Pesouris picked up from the dung-heap a male foundling named Heraclas, P Ryl II. 162 .17 (A.D. 159) βορρᾶ κοπρία , on the north a dung-heap. On this word as common to the NT and the comic poets, see Kennedy Sources , p. 72 ff. : it survives in MGr. The wider usage of κοπρία to denote the spot where all kinds of rubbish are gathered together is discussed by Wilcken Archiv ii. p. 311 f. (cf. κόπριον )

Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon

κοπρία κοπρία, ἡ, "a dunghill": also = κόπρος, NTest.

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon

κοπρία, -ας, ἡ [in LXX chiefly for אַשְׁפֹּת ;] a dung hill (1Ki.2:8, Psa.113:7 al.): Luk.14:35.† κόπριον, -ου, τό, [in LXX (pl.): Jer.25:33 (דֹּמֶן), Sir.22:2, 1Ma.2:62 * ;] = κόπρος, dung: pl., Luk.13:8 (WH, mg., κόφινον κοπρίων).† (AS)

Bible Occurrences (2)

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