Kophinos means “basket” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2894 — tu (“sweep”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2894 κόφινος (kophinos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kophinos (kof'-ee-nos) n. 1. a (small) basket [of uncertain derivation] It has 8 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include baskets. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
kophinos (kof'-ee-nos) n. 1. a (small) basket [of uncertain derivation] KJV: basket
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2894. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
basket
Usage: κόφινος, -ου, ὁ [in LXX: Jdg.6:19 (סַל), Psa.81:6 (דּוּד)* ;] a basket, probably of wicker-work, such as were carried by Jews for food: Mat.14:20 16:9, Mrk.6:43 8:19 9:17 13:8, Jhn.6:13 (cf. σφυρίς).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kophinos, 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 New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. 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 G2894 (κόφινος) appears 2 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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6 indexed usages in New Testament.
And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.
2 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And Gideon went in, and prepared a kid of the goats, and an ephah of fine flour unleavened; and he put the flesh in the basket, and poured the broth into the pot, and brought them forth to him under the turpentine tree, and drew nigh.
He removed his back from burdens: His hands slaved in making the baskets.
First 8 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2894.
And Gideon went in, and prepared a kid of the goats, and an ephah of fine flour unleavened; and he put the flesh in the basket, and poured the broth into the pot, and brought them forth to him under the turpentine tree, and drew nigh.
He removed his back from burdens: His hands slaved in making the baskets.
And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.
Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
And they took up twelve baskets full of the fragments, and of the fishes.
When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.
And they did eat, and were all filled: and there was taken up of fragments that remained to them twelve baskets.
Therefore they gathered them together, and filled twelve baskets with the fragments of the five barley loaves, which remained over and above unto them that had eaten.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2894, grouped by book.
Kophinos (Strong's G2894) is a Greek word most simply glossed "basket". kophinos (kof'-ee-nos) n. 1. a (small) basket [of uncertain derivation]
This page currently indexes 8 linked usages for Strong's G2894 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2894 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as baskets. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 2 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G2894, with linked reader references where each row is available.