κύπτω
to stoop down
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
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G2955 appears in the Book of John — 2 distinct verses. 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.
John
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.
κυπτω — transliterated kýptō — is a Greek verb carrying the sense “to stoop down.” It occurs a mere 3 verses across Scripture. More than two-thirds of its appearances fall in John. Debuting at Mark 1:7, it then recurs through the corpus. Related forms include κυμα, κυλιοω and κυμβαλον. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2955 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%
- Johannine 2 verses · 67%
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: He stooped 1×, Stoop down 1×, Stooped 1×
- American Standard Version: He stooped 1×, Stoop down 1×, Stooped 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Bent 1×, He bent down 1×, Stoop down 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Having bent 1×, Stooping down 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2955 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2955 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G2955 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2955 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense 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 stoop down, bend forward, to bow the head
Word origin
Derived from κυμα (kŷma) (G2949) — wave.
Probably from the base of G2949 ; to bend forward : - stoop (down).
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2955, 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 κυπτω appears 16 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 16 verses in 9 books.
- 16
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 16
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 9 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 9 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 43:28 κύπτω
- Exodus 4:31 κύπτω
- Numbers 22:31 κύπτω
- 1 Samuel 24:9 κύπτω
- 1 Kings 1:16 κύπτω
- 2 Chronicles 20:18 κύπτω
- Ezra 18:6 κύπτω
- Psalms 9:31 κύπτω
- Isaiah 2:9 κύπτω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2955) 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 43:28 κύπτω They said, "Your servant, our father, is well. He is still alive." They bowed the head, and did homage.
- Exodus 4:31 κύπτω The people believed, and when they heard that Yahweh had visited the children of Israel, and that he had seen their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshiped.
- Exodus 12:27 κύπτω that you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.'" The people bowed their heads and worshiped.
- Exodus 34:8 κύπτω Moses hurried and bowed his head toward the earth, and worshiped.
- Numbers 22:31 κύπτω Then Yahweh opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of Yahweh standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.
- 1 Samuel 24:9 κύπτω David said to Saul, Why listen you to men's words, saying, Behold, David seeks your hurt?
- 1 Samuel 28:14 κύπτω He said to her, What form is he of? She said, An old man comes up; and he is covered with a robe. Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, and did obeisance.
- 1 Kings 1:16 κύπτω Bathsheba bowed, and did obeisance to the king. The king said, What would you?
- 1 Kings 1:31 κύπτω Then Bathsheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live forever.
- 1 Kings 18:42 κύπτω So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down on the earth, and put his face between his knees.
- 2 Chronicles 20:18 κύπτω Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground; and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell down before Yahweh, worshipping Yahweh.
- Ezra 18:6 κύπτω
- Psalms 9:31 κύπτω
- Isaiah 2:9 κύπτω Man is brought low, And mankind is humbled; Therefore don't forgive them.
- Isaiah 46:6 κύπτω Some pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver in the balance. They hire a goldsmith, and he makes it a god. They fall down--yes, they worship.
- Isaiah 51:23 κύπτω and I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, Bow down, that we may go over; and you have laid your back as the ground, and as the street, to those who go over.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2955) 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.
