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Strong's G2873 κόπος (kopos)

Kopos means “labour” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's H2873 — tabach (“kill”) in the Hebrew Bible.

Strong's Number G2873
Language Greek
Linked Usages 57
Books 27

Strong's G2873 Quick Answer

Strong's G2873 κόπος (kopos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kopos (kop'-os) n. 1. a cut 2. (by analogy) toil (as reducing the strength) It has 57 linked Bible usages across 27 books. Visible English usage signals include labour, trouble, labours, and weariness. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

Meaning
kopos (kop'-os) n. 1. a cut 2. (by analogy) toil (as reducing the strength)
Usage
57 linked usages
Books
27 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
labour, trouble, labours, and weariness

Meaning and Definition

kopos (kop'-os) n. 1. a cut 2. (by analogy) toil (as reducing the strength) 3. (by implication) pains {literally or figuratively} [from G2875] KJV: labour, + trouble, weariness Root(s): G2875 Compare: G2872, G3449

Original Word
κόπος
Transliteration
kopos
Derivation
Root: κόπτω R1: 2875
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2873. 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)

labor

Usage: κόπος, -ου, ὁ (κόπτω) [in LXX chiefly for עָמָל, also for אָוֶן, etc. ;] __1. a striking, beating (in Jer.45:3 = κοπετός) __2. laborious toil, trouble: Jhn.4:38, 1Co.3:8 15:58, 1Th.3:5; κ. τ. ἀγάπης, 1Th.1:3; ἔργα καὶ κ., Rev.2:2; κ. καὶ μόχθος, 2Co.11:27, 1Th.2:9, 2Th.3:8; pl., ἐν κ., 2Co.6:5 10:15 11:23; ἐκ τ. κ., Rev.14:13; κόπονς (-ον) παρέχειν (in cl. more frequently π. πράγματα, πονον), with dative of person(s), Mat.26:10, Mrk.14:6, Luk.11:7 18:5, Gal.6:17.† SYN.: μόλθος, labour;

πόνος (which see), toil, painful effort; in cl., "π. gives prominence to the effort (work as requiring force), κ. to the fatigue, μ. (chiefly poetic) to the hardship" (Thayer, see word κ.) (AS)

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How Strong's G2873 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kopos, 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.

labour John 4:38 labours 2 Corinthians 6:5 trouble Matthew 26:10 weariness 2 Corinthians 11:27

How Strong's G2873 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, New Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch. 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 26 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.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G2873 (κόπος) appears 38 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G2873 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 G2873 in the New Testament

19 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 26:10 KJV

When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.

Mark 14:6 KJV

And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.

Luke 11:7 KJV

And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.

Strong's G2873 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

26 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 31:42 Septuagint / Brenton

Unless I had the God of my father Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, now thou wouldest have sent me away empty; God saw my humiliation, and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.

Deuteronomy 1:12 Septuagint / Brenton

How shall I alone be able to bear your labor, and your burden, and your gainsayings?

Judges 10:16 Septuagint / Brenton

And they put away the strange gods from the midst of them, and served the Lord only, and his soul was pained for the trouble of Israel.

Strong's G2873 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

8 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Maccabees 10:15 Septuagint / Brenton

Now when King Alexander had heard what promises Demetrius had sent unto Jonathan: when also it was told him of the battles and noble acts which he and his brethren had done, and of the pains that they had endured,

Wisdom of Solomon 3:11 Septuagint / Brenton

For whoso despiseth wisdom and nurture, he is miserable, And their hope is vain, their labors unfruitful, And their works unprofitable:

Wisdom of Solomon 10:17 Septuagint / Brenton

Rendered to the righteous a reward of their labors, Guided them in a marvelous way, And was unto them for a cover by day, And a light of stars in the night season;

Strong's G2873 in 1 Enoch

4 indexed usages in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 7:3 Septuagint / Brenton

became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: Who consumed

1 Enoch 11:1 Septuagint / Brenton

And in those days I will open the store chambers of blessing which are in the heaven, so as to send

1 Enoch 99:13 Septuagint / Brenton

Woe to you who build your houses through the grievous toil of others, And all their building materials are the bricks and stones of sin; I tell you ye shall have no peace.

Usage Excerpts

First 57 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2873.

Genesis 31:42 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Unless I had the God of my father Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, now thou wouldest have sent me away empty; God saw my humiliation, and the labor of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.
Deuteronomy 1:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
How shall I alone be able to bear your labor, and your burden, and your gainsayings?
Judges 10:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they put away the strange gods from the midst of them, and served the Lord only, and his soul was pained for the trouble of Israel.
Nehemiah 5:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the LORD. And the people did according to this promise.
Job 4:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Hast thou been often spoken to in distress? But who shall endure the force of thy words?
Job 5:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For labor cannot by any means come out of the earth, Nor shall trouble spring out of the mountains:
Job 5:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Yet man is born to labor, And even so the vulture’s young seek the high places.
Job 11:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And thou shalt forget trouble, As a wave that has passed by; and thou shalt not be scared.
Psalms 9:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Whose mouth is full of cursing, and bitterness, and fraud: Under his tongue are trouble and pain.
Psalms 24:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Look upon mine affliction and my trouble; And forgive all my sins.
Psalms 54:11 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Day and night he shall go round about it upon its walls: Iniquity and sorrow and unrighteousness are in the midst of it;
Psalms 72:5 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They are not in the troubles of other men; And they shall not be scourged with other men.
Psalms 72:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And I undertook to understand this, But it is too hard for me,
Psalms 87:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
I am poor and in troubles from my youth; And having been exalted, I was brought low and into despair.
Psalms 89:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As for the days of our years, in them are seventy years; And if men should be in strength, eighty years: And the greater part of them would be labor and trouble; For weakness overtakes us, and we shall be chastened.
Psalms 93:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, Which frames mischief by an ordinance?
Psalms 106:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
So their heart was brought low with troubles; They were weak, and there was no helper.
Psalms 139:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
As for the head of them that compass me, The mischief of their lips shall cover them.
Jeremiah 20:18 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Why is it that I came forth of the womb to see troubles and distresses, and my days are spent in shame?
Jeremiah 51:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Whereas thou hast said, Alas! alas! for the Lord has laid a grievous trouble upon me; I lay down in groaning, I found no rest;
Hosea 12:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
He took his brother by the heel in the womb, and in his labors he had power with God.
Micah 2:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
They meditated troubles, and wrought wickedness on their beds, and they put it in execution with the daylight; for they have not lifted up their hands to God.
Habakkuk 1:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Wherefore hast thou shown me troubles and griefs to look upon, misery and ungodliness? judgment is before me, and the judge receives a reward.
Habakkuk 3:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Because of troubles I looked upon the tents of the Ethiopians: The tabernacles also of the land of Midian shall be dismayed.
Zechariah 10:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
For the speakers have uttered grievous things, and the diviners have seen false visions, and they have spoken false dreams, they have given vain comfort: therefore have they fallen away like sheep, and been afflicted, because there was no healing.
Malachi 2:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And these things which I hated, ye did: ye covered with tears the altar of the Lord, and with weeping and groaning because of troubles: is it meet for me to have respect to your sacrifice, or to receive anything from your hands as welcome?
Matthew 26:10 New Testament, KJV
When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.
Mark 14:6 New Testament, KJV
And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.
Luke 11:7 New Testament, KJV
And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.
Luke 18:5 New Testament, KJV
Yet because this widow troubleth me, I will avenge her, lest by her continual coming she weary me.
John 4:38 New Testament, KJV
I sent you to reap that whereon ye bestowed no labour: other men laboured, and ye are entered into their labours.
1 Corinthians 3:8 New Testament, KJV
Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.
1 Corinthians 15:58 New Testament, KJV
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.
2 Corinthians 6:5 New Testament, KJV
In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings;
2 Corinthians 10:15 New Testament, KJV
Not boasting of things without our measure, that is, of other men's labours; but having hope, when your faith is increased, that we shall be enlarged by you according to our rule abundantly,
2 Corinthians 11:23 New Testament, KJV
Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.
2 Corinthians 11:27 New Testament, KJV
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Galatians 6:17 New Testament, KJV
From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.
1 Thessalonians 1:3 New Testament, KJV
Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labour of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;
1 Thessalonians 2:9 New Testament, KJV
For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
1 Thessalonians 3:5 New Testament, KJV
For this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter have tempted you, and our labour be in vain.
2 Thessalonians 3:8 New Testament, KJV
Neither did we eat any man's bread for nought; but wrought with labour and travail night and day, that we might not be chargeable to any of you:
Hebrews 6:10 New Testament, KJV
For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Revelation 2:2 New Testament, KJV
I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:
Revelation 14:13 New Testament, KJV
And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
1 Maccabees 10:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Now when King Alexander had heard what promises Demetrius had sent unto Jonathan: when also it was told him of the battles and noble acts which he and his brethren had done, and of the pains that they had endured,
Wisdom of Solomon 3:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
For whoso despiseth wisdom and nurture, he is miserable, And their hope is vain, their labors unfruitful, And their works unprofitable:
Wisdom of Solomon 10:17 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Rendered to the righteous a reward of their labors, Guided them in a marvelous way, And was unto them for a cover by day, And a light of stars in the night season;
Wisdom of Sirach 13:26 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
A cheerful countenance is a token of a heart that is in prosperity; And the finding out of parables is a wearisome labor of the mind.
Wisdom of Sirach 14:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Shalt thou not leave thy travails unto another? And thy labors to be divided by lot?
Wisdom of Sirach 22:13 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Talk not much with a fool, And go not to him that hath no understanding: Beware of him, lest thou have trouble, And thou shalt never be defiled with his fooleries: Depart from him, and thou shalt find rest, And never be disquieted with madness.
Wisdom of Sirach 29:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Many, when a thing was lent them, reckoned it to be found, And put them to trouble that helped them.
Wisdom of Sirach 34:23 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Whoso is liberal of his meat, men shall speak well of him; And the report of his good housekeeping will be believed.
1 Enoch 7:3 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
became pregnant, and they bare great giants, whose height was three thousand ells: Who consumed
1 Enoch 11:1 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
And in those days I will open the store chambers of blessing which are in the heaven, so as to send
1 Enoch 99:13 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
Woe to you who build your houses through the grievous toil of others, And all their building materials are the bricks and stones of sin; I tell you ye shall have no peace.
1 Enoch 103:9 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
Say not in regard to the righteous and good who are in life: " In our troubled days we have toiled laboriously and experienced every trouble, And met with much evil and been consumed, And have become few and our spirit small.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2873, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Deuteronomy 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 10 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Hosea 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Habakkuk 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Zechariah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 1 usage, New Testament
Mark 1 usage, New Testament
Luke 2 usages, New Testament
John 1 usage, New Testament
1 Corinthians 2 usages, New Testament
2 Corinthians 4 usages, New Testament
Galatians 1 usage, New Testament
1 Thessalonians 3 usages, New Testament
2 Thessalonians 1 usage, New Testament
Hebrews 1 usage, New Testament
Revelation 2 usages, New Testament
1 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 4 usages, 1 Enoch

Strong's G2873 FAQ

What does kopos (κόπος) mean?

Kopos (Strong's G2873) is a Greek word most simply glossed "labour". kopos (kop'-os) n. 1. a cut 2. (by analogy) toil (as reducing the strength)

How many times is kopos (κόπος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 57 linked usages for Strong's G2873 across 27 books.

Where can I study kopos (κόπος) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2873 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.

What English words translate kopos (κόπος)?

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

Does Strong's G2873 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

Yes. The current local index includes 26 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 8 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 4 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G2873, with linked reader references where each row is available.