labor
Morphhology:
Greek, Noun, Male
Definition:
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 freq. 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)
Morphhology:
Greek, Noun, Male
Definition:
κόπ-ος, ὁ, (κόπτω)
striking, beating, ὀξύχειρι σὺν κόπῳ (Pauw for κτύπῳ) [
Refs 4th c.BC+]; στέρνων κόπους (Seidler for κτύπους) [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; ={κοπανισμός}, [
Refs 5th c.AD+]
II)
toil and trouble, suffering, [
Refs 5th c.BC+];
pain of a disease, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; κόπους παρέχειν τινί to give
trouble, [
NT+2nd c.BC+]; κόπον ἔχειν [
Refs 1st c.BC+]
II.2)
fatigue, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; κόπου ὕπο from
very weariness, [
Refs 5th c.BC+]; κόπῳ δαμέντες, ἁλίσκεσθαι, [
NT+5th c.BC+]; περὶ κόπων title of work by [
Refs 4th c.BC+]
II.3)
work, exertion, καμάραν ἀφ᾽ ἱδίων κόπων ἐποίησεν [
Refs 1st c.AD+]; κόπῳ κόπον λύειν proverbial in [
Refs 4th c.AD+]
Morphhology:
Noun Masculine
Definition:
a cut, i.e. (by analogy) toil (as reducing the strength), literally or figuratively; by implication, pains; labour, + trouble, weariness; from
g2875 (κόπτω);