STRONGS G2872:
κοπιάω,
κοπιῶ (3 person plural
κοπιουσιν (for
κοπιῶσιν),
Matthew 6:28 Tr; cf.
ἐρωτάω, at the beginning); 1 aorist
ἐκοπίασα; perfect
κεκοπίακα (2 person singular
κεκοπίακες,
Revelation 2:3 L T Tr WH, cf. (
Winers Grammar, § 13, 2 c.);
Buttmann, 43 (38) (and his translation of
Apollonius Dyscolus, p. 54 n.;
Tdf. Proleg., p. 123;
WHs Appendix, p. 166;
Sophocles' Lexicon, p. 39)); (
κόπος, which see);
1. as in
Aristophanes,
Josephus,
Plutarch, others,
to grow weary, tired, exhausted, (with toil or burdens or grief):
Matthew 11:28;
Revelation 2:3;
κεκοπιακώς ἐκ τῆς ὁδοιπορίας,
John 4:6 (
ὑπό τῆς ὁδοιπορίας,
Josephus, Antiquities 2, 15, 3;
δραμοῦνται καί οὐ κοπιασουσι,
Isaiah 40:31).
2. in Biblical Greek alone,
to labor with wearisome effort, to toil (the
Sept. for
יָגַע ); of bodily labor: absolutely,
Matthew 6:28;
Luke 5:5;
Luke 12:27 (not
Tdf.);
John 4:38;
Acts 20:35;
1 Corinthians 4:12;
Ephesians 4:28;
2 Timothy 2:6 (cf.
Winers Grammar, 556 (517);
Buttmann, 390 (334));
τί, upon a thing,
John 4:38. of the toilsome efforts of teachers in proclaiming and promoting the kingdom of God and Christ:
1 Corinthians 15:10;
1 Corinthians 16:16 (cf.
John 4:38); followed by
ἐν with the dative of the thing in which one labors,
ἐν λόγῳ καί διδασκαλία,
1 Timothy 5:17;
ἐν ὑμῖν,among you,
1 Thessalonians 5:12;
ἐν κυρίῳ (see
ἐν, I. 6 b., p. 211b middle (
L brackets the clause)),
Romans 16:12;
εἰς τινα, for one, for his benefit,
Romans 16:6;
Galatians 4:11 (cf.
Buttmann, 242 (200);
Winer's Grammar, 503 (469));
εἰς τοῦτο, looking to this (viz. that piety has the promise of life),
1 Timothy 4:10;
εἰς ὁ, to which end,
Colossians 1:29;
εἰς κενόν, in vain,
Philippians 2:16 (
κενῶς ἐκοπίασα, of the frustrated labor of the prophets,
Isaiah 49:4).
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