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Strong's G1581 ἐκκόπτω (ekkopto)

Ekkopto means “hew down” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H1581 — gamal (“camel”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G1581
Language Greek
Linked Usages 52
Books 25

Strong's G1581 Quick Answer

Strong's G1581 ἐκκόπτω (ekkopto) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. ekkopto (ek-kop'-to) v. 1. to cut out or cut off 2. (figuratively) to frustrate It has 52 linked Bible usages across 25 books. Visible English usage signals include cut, down, and hindered. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

Meaning
ekkopto (ek-kop'-to) v. 1. to cut out or cut off 2. (figuratively) to frustrate
Usage
52 linked usages
Books
25 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Usage Words
cut, down, and hindered

Meaning and Definition

ekkopto (ek-kop'-to) v. 1. to cut out or cut off 2. (figuratively) to frustrate [from G1537 and G2875] KJV: cut down (off, out), hew down, hinder Root(s): G1537, G2875

Original Word
ἐκκόπτω
Transliteration
ekkopto
Derivation
Root: κόπτω R1: 1537 R2: 2875
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G1581. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)

to prevent

Usage: ἐκ-κόπτω, [in LXX for כָּרַת, etc. ;] to cut out, cut off, cut down: of a hand, foot, Mat.5:30 18:8; a tree, Mat.3:10 7:19 Luk.3:9 13:7, 9; figuratively, of a branch, Rom.11:22; before ἐκ, Rom.11:24; metaphorically, τ. ἀφορμήν (cf. Job.19:10 ἐλπίδα), 2Co.11:12.† (AS)

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How Strong's G1581 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render ekkopto, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

cut Matthew 5:30 down Matthew 3:10 hindered 1 Peter 3:7

How Strong's G1581 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 33 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G1581 (ἐκκόπτω) appears 42 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G1581 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's G1581 in the New Testament

11 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 3:10 KJV

And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Matthew 5:30 KJV

And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Matthew 7:19 KJV

Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Strong's G1581 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

33 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 32:9 Septuagint / Brenton

And Jacob said, If Esau should come to one camp, and smite it, the other camp shall be in safety.

Genesis 36:35 Septuagint / Brenton

And Husham died; and Hadad son of Bedad, who cut off Midian in the plain of Moab, ruled in his stead; and the name of his city was Getthaim.

Exodus 21:27 Septuagint / Brenton

And if he should smite out the tooth of his manservant, or the tooth of his maidservant, he shall send them away free for their tooth’s sake.

Strong's G1581 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 4:9 Septuagint / Brenton

if he command to cut down, they cut down; if he command to plant, they plant.

1 Esdras 4:44 Septuagint / Brenton

and to send away all the vessels that were taken away out of Jerusalem, which Cyrus set apart, when he vowed to destroy Babylon, and to send them again thither.

Judith 3:8 Septuagint / Brenton

Yet he did cast down their frontiers, and cut down their groves: for he had decreed to destroy all the gods of the land, that all nations should worship Nebuchadnezzar only, and that all tongues and tribes should call upon him as a god.

Usage Excerpts

First 52 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G1581.

Genesis 32:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Jacob said, If Esau should come to one camp, and smite it, the other camp shall be in safety.
Genesis 36:35 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Husham died; and Hadad son of Bedad, who cut off Midian in the plain of Moab, ruled in his stead; and the name of his city was Getthaim.
Exodus 21:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if he should smite out the tooth of his manservant, or the tooth of his maidservant, he shall send them away free for their tooth’s sake.
Exodus 34:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Ye shall destroy their altars, and break in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their groves, and the graven images of their gods ye shall burn with fire.
Numbers 16:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Thou art a prince, and hast thou brought us into a land flowing with milk and honey, and hast thou given us an inheritance of land and vineyards? wouldest thou have put out the eyes of those men? we will not go up.
Deuteronomy 7:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But thus shall ye do to them; ye shall destroy their altars, and shall break down their pillars, and shall cut down their groves, and shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods.
Deuteronomy 12:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And ye shall destroy their altars, and break in pieces their pillars, and ye shall cut down their groves, and ye shall burn with fire the graven images of their gods, and ye shall abolish their name out of that place.
Deuteronomy 20:19 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And if thou shouldest besiege a city many days to prevail against it by war to take it, thou shalt not destroy its trees, by applying an iron tool to them, but thou shalt eat of it, and shalt not cut it down: Is the tree that is in the field a man, to enter before thee into the work of the siege?
Deuteronomy 20:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
But the tree which thou knowest to be not fruit bearing, this thou shalt destroy and cut down; and thou shalt construct a mound against the city, which makes war against thee, until it be delivered up.
Joshua 15:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Caleb said, Whosoever shall take and destroy the city of Letters, and master it, to him will I give my daughter Achsah to wife.
Judges 16:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he ground in the prison house.
Judges 21:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the children of Israel relented toward Benjamin their brother, and said, Today one tribe is cut off from Israel.
3 Kingdoms 15:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he removed Ana his mother from being queen, forasmuch as she gathered a meeting in her grove: and Asa cut down her retreats, and burned them with fire in the brook of Kidron.
2 Chronicles 14:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he removed the altars of the strange gods, and the high places, and broke the pillars in pieces, and cut down the groves:
2 Chronicles 14:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they destroyed their towns round about Gedor; for a terror of the Lord was upon them: and they spoiled all their cities, for they had much spoil.
2 Chronicles 14:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Also they destroyed the tents of cattle, and the Alimazons, and took many sheep and camels, and returned to Jerusalem.
2 Chronicles 31:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And when all these things were finished, all Israel that were found in the cities of Judah went out, and broke in pieces the pillars, and cut down the groves, and tore down the high places and the altars out of all Judea and Benjamin, also of Ephraim and Manasseh, till they made an end: and all Israel returned, every one to his inheritance, and to their cities.
Job 14:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For there is hope for a tree, Even if it should be cut down, that it shall blossom again, And its branch shall not fail.
Job 19:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he has cut off my hope like a tree.
Psalms 73:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They cut down its doors at once with axes as in a wood of trees; They have broken it down with hatchet and stone cutter.
Proverbs 30:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The eye that laughs to scorn a father, and dishonors the old age of a mother, let the ravens of the valleys pick it out, and let the young eagles devour it.
Isaiah 9:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
The bricks are fallen down, but come, let us hew stones, and cut down sycamores and cedars, and let us build for ourselves a tower.
Isaiah 27:9 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be taken away; and this is his blessing, when I shall have taken away his sin; when they shall have broken to pieces all the stones of the altars as fine dust, and their trees shall not remain, and their idols shall be cut off, as a thicket afar off.
Jeremiah 6:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For thus saith the Lord, Hew down her trees, array a numerous force against Jerusalem. O false city; there is all oppression in her.
Jeremiah 10:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the customs of the nations are vain; it is a tree cut out of the forest, the work of the carpenter, or a molten image.
Jeremiah 22:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and I will bring upon thee a destroying man, and his axe: and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
Jeremiah 26:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, for their number cannot at all be conjectured, for it exceeds the locust in multitude, and they are innumerable.
Jeremiah 51:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And now thus has the Lord Almighty said, Wherefore do ye commit these great evils against your souls? to cut off man and woman of you, infant and suckling from the midst of Judah, to the end that not one of you should be left;
Jeremiah 51:8 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
by provoking me with the works of your hands, to burn incense to other gods in the land of Egypt, into which ye entered to dwell there, that ye might be cut off, and that ye might become a curse and a reproach among all the nations of the earth?
Daniel 4:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Cut down the tree, and pluck off its branches, and shake off its leaves, and scatter its fruit: let the wild beasts be removed from under it, and the birds from its branches.
Daniel 9:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And after the sixty-two weeks, the anointed one shall be destroyed, and there is no judgment in him: and he shall destroy the city and the sanctuary with the prince that is coming: they shall be cut off with a flood, and to the end of the war which is rapidly completed he shall appoint the city to desolations.
Micah 5:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I will cut off the groves out of the midst of thee, and I will abolish thy cities.
Zechariah 12:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
In that day the lamentation in Jerusalem shall be very great, as the mourning for the pomegranate grove cut down in the plain.
Matthew 3:10 New Testament, KJV
And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Matthew 5:30 New Testament, KJV
And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
Matthew 7:19 New Testament, KJV
Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Matthew 18:8 New Testament, KJV
Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.
Luke 3:9 New Testament, KJV
And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.
Luke 13:7 New Testament, KJV
Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?
Luke 13:9 New Testament, KJV
And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.
Romans 11:22 New Testament, KJV
Behold therefore the goodness and severity of God: on them which fell, severity; but toward thee, goodness, if thou continue in his goodness: otherwise thou also shalt be cut off.
Romans 11:24 New Testament, KJV
For if thou wert cut out of the olive tree which is wild by nature, and wert grafted contrary to nature into a good olive tree: how much more shall these, which be the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?
2 Corinthians 11:12 New Testament, KJV
But what I do, that I will do, that I may cut off occasion from them which desire occasion; that wherein they glory, they may be found even as we.
1 Peter 3:7 New Testament, KJV
Likewise, ye husbands, dwell with them according to knowledge, giving honour unto the wife, as unto the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life; that your prayers be not hindered.
1 Esdras 4:9 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
if he command to cut down, they cut down; if he command to plant, they plant.
1 Esdras 4:44 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and to send away all the vessels that were taken away out of Jerusalem, which Cyrus set apart, when he vowed to destroy Babylon, and to send them again thither.
Judith 3:8 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Yet he did cast down their frontiers, and cut down their groves: for he had decreed to destroy all the gods of the land, that all nations should worship Nebuchadnezzar only, and that all tongues and tribes should call upon him as a god.
1 Maccabees 6:6 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
and that Lysias, who went forth first with a great power, was driven away of the Jews; and that they were made strong by the armor, and power, and store of spoils, which they had gotten of the armies, whom they had destroyed:
4 Maccabees 3:2 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
in such a way as that any one of you may not be able to root out desire, but reasoning will enable you to avoid being enslaved to it.
4 Maccabees 3:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
One may not be able to root out anger from the soul, but it is possible to withstand anger.
4 Maccabees 3:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Any one of you may not be able to eradicate malice, but reasoning has force to work with you to prevent your yielding to malice.
4 Maccabees 5:30 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
No, not if you pluck out my eyes, and consume my entrails.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G1581, grouped by book.

Genesis 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Exodus 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Numbers 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Joshua 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Isaiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Daniel 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 4 usages, New Testament
Luke 3 usages, New Testament
Romans 2 usages, New Testament
2 Corinthians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Peter 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Judith 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
4 Maccabees 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha

Strong's G1581 FAQ

What does ekkopto (ἐκκόπτω) mean?

Ekkopto (Strong's G1581) is a Greek word most simply glossed "hew down". ekkopto (ek-kop'-to) v. 1. to cut out or cut off 2. (figuratively) to frustrate

How many times is ekkopto (ἐκκόπτω) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 52 linked usages for Strong's G1581 across 25 books.

Where can I study ekkopto (ἐκκόπτω) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G1581 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

What English words translate ekkopto (ἐκκόπτω)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as cut, down, and hindered. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.

Does Strong's G1581 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 33 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G1581, with linked reader references where each row is available.