κόπτω: imperfect 3 person plural ἔκοπτον; 1 aorist participle κοψας (Mar_11:8 T Tr text WH); middle, imperfect ἐκοπτομην; future κόψομαι; 1 aorist ἐκοψαμην; (from Homer down); to cut, strike, smite (the Sept. for δΔλΘΜδ, λΘΜψΗϊ, etc.): τί ἀπό or ἐκ τίνος, to cut from, cut off, Mat_21:8; Mar_11:8. Middle to beat one's breast for grief, Latinplango (R. V. mourn): (Aeschylus Pers. 683; Plato, others; the Sept. often so for ρΘτΗγ); τινα, to mourn or bewail one (cf. Winer's Grammar, § 32, 1 γ.): Luk_8:52; Luk_23:27, (Gen_23:2; 1Sa_25:1, etc.; Aristophanes, Lysias, 396; Anthol. 11, 135, 1); ἐπί τινα, Rev_1:7; ( T Tr WH) (2Sa_11:26); ἐπί τινα, Rev_18:9 (R G L), cf. Zec_12:10. (Compare: ἀνακόπτω, ἀποκόπτω, ἐκκόπτω, ἐνκόπτω, κατακόπτω, προκόπτω, προσκόπτω. Synonym: cf. θρηνέω.)

κόπτω koptō 8x to smite, cut; to cut off or down, Mat_21:8 ; Mar_11:8 ; mid. to beat one s self in mourning, lament, bewail, Mat_11:17 ; Mat_24:30 ; Luk_8:52 ; Luk_23:27 ; Rev_1:7 ; Rev_18:9

κόπτω , [in LXX for H3772 , H5594 , H5221 hi ., etc.;] 1. to strike, smite. 2. to cut off: c . acc rei , seq . ἀπό , Mat_21:8 ; ἐκ , Mar_11:8 . Mid ., to beat one's breast with grief, to mourn, bewail: Mat_11:17 ; Mat_24:30 ; c . acc pers ., Luk_8:52 ; Luk_23:27 ; seq . ἐπί , c . acc , Rev_1:7 ; Rev_18:9 ( cf. ἀνα -, ἀπο -, ἐκ -, ἐν -, κατα -, προ -, προσ -κόπτω ).† SYN.: θρηνέω G2354 , q.v.

κόπτω [page 355] κόπτω in its original sense of cut may be illustrated by PSI II. 171 .39 (ii/B.C.) κόψας τοὺς ἐν αὐτῶι φ [οίνι ]κ̣ας , P Tebt I. 5 .205 (B.C. 118) τοὺς κεκοφότας τῶν ἰδίων ξύλα , those who have cut down wood on their own property (Edd.), P Ryl II. 228 .12 (i/A.D.) ὂργανο (ν ) τροχ (οῦ ) το̣, εἰς κόπτειν , machinery of the wheel for cutting (Edd.), ib . 236 .24 (A.D. 256) ποίησον δὲ ἐξαυτῆς ὤμους δύο ἐλαιουργικοὺς κοπῆναι , have two beams (?) cut at once for oil-presses (Edd ), P Oxy XII. 1421 .4 (iii/A.D.) τὸ ξ [ύ ]λον τὸ ἀκάνθινον τὸ κεκομμένον ἐν τῇ Εἰόνθει , the acacia-wood which has been cut at Ionthis. For the simplex κόπτω as an equivalent of the immediately preceding compd. ἐκκόπτω , see P Fay 114 .14 ff. (A.D. 100) θέλι ἐξ αὐτον ἐκκόψαι φυτά , εἵνα ἐνπίρος κοπῇ τὰ μέλλοντα ἐκκόπτεσθαι , he wishes to cut down some trees, so that those which are to be cut down may be cut. skilfully (Edd.) : cf. Proleg. p. 115 for exx. of the survival in NT Greek of this classical idiom. A new noun κόπτρον is found in P Lond 1171 .62 (B.C. 8) (= III. p. 179) κόπτ̣ρα ἀράκου : for κοπτός , a cake, see P Oxy I. 113 .31 (ii/A.D.). MGr κόβ [γ ]ω , κόφτω .

κόπτω [Etym: from Root ΚΟΠ] "to strike, smite, knock down", Od. ; κόψε μιν παρήιον "smote" him "on" the cheek Il. "to cut off, chop off", Hom. , etc.; κ. δένδρα "to fell" trees, Thuc. , etc.; κ. τὴν χώραν "to cut down the trees in" it, "to lay" it "waste", Xen. :—Pass., of ships, "to be shattered or disabled" by the enemy, Thuc. :—metaph., φρενῶν κεκομμένος "stricken" in mind, Aesch. "to hammer, forge", Hom. : "to stamp" metal, "coin" money, Hdt. :— Mid. "to coin oneself" money, "order to be coined", id=Hdt. : Pass., of the money, "to be stamped or coined", Ar. "to knock at" the door, Lat. pulsare, id=Ar. , etc. "to cut small, chop up or pound" in a mortar, Hdt. of a horse, "to jolt or shake" his rider, Xen. metaph. "to tire out, weary", Dem. Mid. κόπτομαι, "to beat one's breast" through grief, Lat. plangere, Il. , Hdt. , Plat . κόπτεσθαί τινα "to mourn for" any one, Lat. plangere aliquem, Eur. , etc.

κόπτω [in LXX for כָּרַת, סָפַד, נָכָה hi., etc. ;] __1. to strike, smite. __2. to cut off: with accusative of thing(s), before ἀπό, Mat.21:8; ἐκ, Mrk.11:8. Mid., to beat one's breast with grief, to mourn, bewail: Mat.11:17 24:30; with accusative of person(s), Luk.8:52 23:27; before ἐπί, with accusative, Rev.1:7 18:9 (cf. ἀνα-, ἀπο-, ἐκ-, ἐν-, κατα-, προ-, προσ-κόπτω).† SYN.: θρηνέω, q.v (AS)