Apokopto means “cut off” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H609 — aca (“Asa”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G609 ἀποκόπτω (apokopto) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. apokopto (ap-ok-op'-to) v. 1. to amputate 2. (reflexively, by irony) to mutilate (the private parts), to castrate It has 12 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include cut. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
apokopto (ap-ok-op'-to) v. 1. to amputate 2. (reflexively, by irony) to mutilate (the private parts), to castrate [from G575 and G2875] KJV: cut off Root(s): G575, G2875 Compare: G2699
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to cut off
Usage: ἀπο-κόπτω [in LXX for קָצַץ, כָּרַת, etc. ;] to cut off: Mrk.9:43, 45, Jhn.18:10, 26 Act.27:32. Mid., to mutilate oneself, have oneself mutilated: Gal.5:12 (cf. Deu.23:1 LXX; and see Cremer, 751; MM, see word).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render apokopto, 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.
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Strong's G609 (ἀποκόπτω) appears 6 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 if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.
6 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
He that is fractured or mutilated in his private parts shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord.
thou shalt cut off her hand; thine eye shall not spare her.
And Adoni-bezek fled, and they pursued after him, and took him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
First 12 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G609.
He that is fractured or mutilated in his private parts shall not enter into the assembly of the Lord.
thou shalt cut off her hand; thine eye shall not spare her.
And Adoni-bezek fled, and they pursued after him, and took him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.
And Adoni-bezek said, Seventy kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their food under my table: as I therefore have done, so God has recompensed me: and they brought him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
And Hanun took the servants of David, and shaved their beards, and cut off their garments in the midst as far as their haunches, and sent them away.
Will he cut off his mercy forever, Even forever and ever?
And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
And if thy foot offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter halt into life, than having two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:
Then Simon Peter having a sword drew it, and smote the high priest's servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant's name was Malchus.
One of the servants of the high priest, being his kinsman whose ear Peter cut off, saith, Did not I see thee in the garden with him?
Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.
I would they were even cut off which trouble you.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G609, grouped by book.
Apokopto (Strong's G609) is a Greek word most simply glossed "cut off". apokopto (ap-ok-op'-to) v. 1. to amputate 2. (reflexively, by irony) to mutilate (the private parts), to castrate
This page currently indexes 12 linked usages for Strong's G609 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G609 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as cut. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 6 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G609, with linked reader references where each row is available.