Kouphizo means “lighten” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2893 — tohorah (“cleansing”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2893 κουφίζω (kouphizo) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kouphizo (kou-fid'-zo) v. 1. to unload [from kouphos (light in weight)] It has 10 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include lightened. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
kouphizo (kou-fid'-zo) v. 1. to unload [from kouphos (light in weight)] KJV: lighten
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2893. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to lighten
Usage: κουφίζω (κοῦφος, light), [in LXX: Exo.18:22, Jon.1.5, al. (קָלַל hi.), Est.5:1, al. ;] __1. intrans., to be light (poetic chiefly). __2. to lighten, make light: with accusative, Act.27:38.† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kouphizo, 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.
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.
Strong's G2893 (κουφίζω) appears 9 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
8 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And they shall judge the people at all times, and the too burdensome matter they shall bring to thee, but they shall judge the smaller cases; so they shall relieve thee and help thee.
According to the number of the lords of the Philistines, five golden emerods, for the plague was on you, and on your rulers, and on the people; and golden mice, the likeness of the mice that destroy your land: and ye shall give glory to the Lord, that he may lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
but do thou now lighten somewhat of the hard service of thy father, and of his heavy yoke which he put upon us, and we will serve thee.
1 indexed usage in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Therefore now shall ye not join your daughters unto their sons, neither shall ye take their daughters unto your sons.
First 10 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2893.
And they shall judge the people at all times, and the too burdensome matter they shall bring to thee, but they shall judge the smaller cases; so they shall relieve thee and help thee.
According to the number of the lords of the Philistines, five golden emerods, for the plague was on you, and on your rulers, and on the people; and golden mice, the likeness of the mice that destroy your land: and ye shall give glory to the Lord, that he may lighten his hand from off you, and from off your gods, and from off your land.
but do thou now lighten somewhat of the hard service of thy father, and of his heavy yoke which he put upon us, and we will serve thee.
And he said to them, What counsel do ye give? And what shall I answer to this people who speak to me, saying, Lighten somewhat of the yoke which thy father has put upon us?
And the young men who had been brought up with him, who stood before his face, spoke to him, saying, Thus shalt thou say to this people who have spoken to thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, and do thou now lighten it from off us: thus shalt thou say to them, My little finger shall be thicker than my father’s loins.
And after all that is come upon us for our evil deeds, and for our great trespass, seeing that thou our God hast punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and hast given us such deliverance as this;
For the wicked hastens to the day of destruction: They shall be led away for the day of his vengeance.
And the sailors were alarmed, and cried every one to his god, and cast out the wares that were in the ship into the sea, that it might be lightened of them. But Jonah was gone down into the hold of the ship, and was asleep, and snored.
And when they had eaten enough, they lightened the ship, and cast out the wheat into the sea.
Therefore now shall ye not join your daughters unto their sons, neither shall ye take their daughters unto your sons.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2893, grouped by book.
Kouphizo (Strong's G2893) is a Greek word most simply glossed "lighten". kouphizo (kou-fid'-zo) v. 1. to unload [from kouphos (light in weight)]
This page currently indexes 10 linked usages for Strong's G2893 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2893 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as lightened. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 8 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 1 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2893, with linked reader references where each row is available.