Kypto means “bend forward” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2955 — taphath in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2955 κύπτω (kupto) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kupto (koop'-to) v. 1. to bend forward [probably from the base of G2949] It has 21 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include stooped and stoop. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
kupto (koop'-to) v. 1. to bend forward [probably from the base of G2949] KJV: stoop (down) Root(s): G2949
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G2955. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to stoop/bend down
Usage: κύπτω [in LXX chiefly for קָדַד ;] to bow the head, stoop down: Mrk.1:7; before κάτω, Jhn.8:6, 8 (cf. ἀνα-, παρα-, συν-κύπτω).† κατα-κύπτω, [in LXX: 4Ki.9:32 (שָׁקַף hi.)* ;] to bend down, stoop: Jhn.8:8 (κάτω κύψας, Rec., WH, mg.).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kupto, 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 G2955 (κύπτω) appears 18 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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3 indexed usages in New Testament.
And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
16 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And they said, Thy servant our father is well; he is yet alive. And he said, Blessed be that man by God—and they bowed, and did him reverence.
And the people believed and rejoiced, because God visited the children of Israel, and because he saw their affliction: and the people bowed and worshiped.
that ye shall say to them, This Passover is a sacrifice to the Lord, as he defended the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, but delivered our houses.
2 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
Then all the people were wonderfully astonished, and bowed themselves, and worshiped God, and said with one accord, Blessed be thou, O our God, which hast this day brought to nought the enemies of thy people.
but the soul that is greatly vexed, which goeth stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will give thee praise and righteousness, O Lord.
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2955.
And they said, Thy servant our father is well; he is yet alive. And he said, Blessed be that man by God—and they bowed, and did him reverence.
And the people believed and rejoiced, because God visited the children of Israel, and because he saw their affliction: and the people bowed and worshiped.
that ye shall say to them, This Passover is a sacrifice to the Lord, as he defended the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, but delivered our houses.
And Moses hastened, and bowed to the earth and worshiped;
And God opened the eyes of Balaam, and he sees the angel of the Lord withstanding him in the way, and his sword drawn in his hand, and he stooped down and worshiped on his face.
And David rose up and went after him out of the cave: and David cried after Saul, saying, My lord, O king! and Saul looked behind him, and David bowed with his face to the ground, and did obeisance to him.
And he said to her, What didst thou perceive? and she said to him, An upright man ascending out of the earth, and he was clothed with a mantle. And Saul knew that this was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the earth, and did obeisance to him.
And Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king; and the king said, What is thy request?
And Bathsheba bowed with her face to the ground, and did obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord King David live forever.
And Ahab went up to eat and to drink; and Elijah went up to Carmel, and stooped to the ground, and put his face between his knees,
And Jehoshaphat bowed with his face to the ground with all Judah and the dwellers in Jerusalem, and they fell before the Lord to worship the Lord.
And Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God. And all the people answered, Amen, Amen, with lifting up their hands: and they bowed their heads, and worshipped the LORD with their faces to the ground.
He will bow down and fall when he has mastered the poor.
And the mean man bowed down, and the great man was humbled: and I will not pardon them.
They that furnish gold out of a purse, and silver by weight, will weigh it in a scale, and they hire a goldsmith and make idols, and bow down, and worship them.
And I will give it into the hands of them that injured thee, and them that afflicted thee; who said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may pass over: and thou didst level thy body with the ground to them passing by without.
And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.
This they said, tempting him, that they might have to accuse him. But Jesus stooped down, and with his finger wrote on the ground, as though he heard them not.
And again he stooped down, and wrote on the ground.
Then all the people were wonderfully astonished, and bowed themselves, and worshiped God, and said with one accord, Blessed be thou, O our God, which hast this day brought to nought the enemies of thy people.
but the soul that is greatly vexed, which goeth stooping and feeble, and the eyes that fail, and the hungry soul, will give thee praise and righteousness, O Lord.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2955, grouped by book.
Kypto (Strong's G2955) is a Greek word most simply glossed "bend forward". kupto (koop'-to) v. 1. to bend forward [probably from the base of G2949]
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's G2955 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2955 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 stooped and stoop. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 16 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 2 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G2955, with linked reader references where each row is available.