κοπάζω
to grow weary
‘to grow weary’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G2869 appears — 3 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 2 verses
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek verb κοπαζω centers on the idea of “to grow weary.” With only 3 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. The word gravitates to Mark (67%), then Matthew. First canonically at Matthew 14:32, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. Dig into 3-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2869 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 2 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Gospels 3 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Ceased 3×
- American Standard Version: Ceased 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Died down 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ceased 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2869 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2869 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2869 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2869 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to grow weary or tired
- to cease from violence, cease raging
Word origin
Derived from κοπος (kópos) (G2873) — beating.
From G2873 ; to tire that is (figuratively) to relax : - cease.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2869, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κοπαζω appears 20 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 20 verses in 12 books.
- 20
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 20
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 8:1 κοπάζω
- Numbers 11:2 κοπάζω
- Joshua 14:15 κοπάζω
- Judges 15:7 κοπάζω
- 2 Samuel 13:39 κοπάζω
- Esther 2:1 κοπάζω
- Psalms 48:10 κοπάζω
- Jeremiah 14:21 κοπάζω
- Ezekiel 43:10 κοπάζω
- Hosea 8:10 κοπάζω
- Amos 7:5 κοπάζω
- Jonah 1:11 κοπάζω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2869) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 8:1 κοπάζω God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
- Genesis 8:7 κοπάζω and he sent forth a raven. It went back and forth, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.
- Genesis 8:8 κοπάζω He sent forth a dove from him, to see if the waters were abated from off the surface of the ground,
- Genesis 8:11 κοπάζω The dove came back to him at evening, and, behold, in her mouth was an olive leaf plucked off. So Noah knew that the waters were abated from off the earth.
- Numbers 11:2 κοπάζω The people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Yahweh, and the fire abated.
- Numbers 17:13 κοπάζω Everyone who comes near, who comes near to the tent of Yahweh, dies: shall we perish all of us?
- Numbers 17:15 κοπάζω
- Joshua 14:15 κοπάζω Now the name of Hebron before was Kiriath Arba; [which Arba was] the greatest man among the Anakim. The land had rest from war.
- Judges 15:7 κοπάζω Samson said to them, If you do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
- 2 Samuel 13:39 κοπάζω [the soul of] king David longed to go forth to Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.
- Esther 2:1 κοπάζω After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
- Esther 7:10 κοπάζω So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
- Psalms 48:10 κοπάζω As is your name, God, So is your praise to the ends of the earth. Your right hand is full of righteousness.
- Psalms 105:30 κοπάζω Their land swarmed with frogs, Even in the chambers of their kings.
- Jeremiah 14:21 κοπάζω Do not abhor [us], for your name's sake; do not disgrace the throne of your glory: remember, don't break your covenant with us.
- Ezekiel 43:10 κοπάζω You, son of man, show the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities; and let them measure the pattern.
- Hosea 8:10 κοπάζω But although they sold themselves among the nations, I will now gather them; and they begin to waste away because of the oppression of the king of mighty ones.
- Amos 7:5 κοπάζω Then I said, "Lord Yahweh, stop, I beg you! How could Jacob stand? For he is small."
- Jonah 1:11 κοπάζω Then said they to him, "What shall we do to you, that the sea may be calm to us?" For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.
- Jonah 1:12 κοπάζω He said to them, "Take me up, and throw me into the sea. Then the sea will be calm for you; for I know that because of me this great tempest is on you."
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2869) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
