Word Summary
enkopē: a hindrance
Original Word: ἐγκοπήTransliteration: enkopē
Phonetic Spelling: (eng-kop-ay')
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Short Definition: a hindrance
Meaning: a hindrance
Strong's Concordance
hinder.
From egkopto; a hindrance -- X hinder.
see GREEK egkopto
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1464: ἐγκοπήἐγκοπή (
WH ἐνκοπη T ἐκκοπῇ, see
ἐν, III. 3),
ἐγκοπης,
ἡ (
ἐγκόπτω, properly,
a cutting (made in the road to impede an enemy in pursuit ((?)), hence),
a hindrance:
1 Corinthians 9:12. (
Diodorus 1, 32;
Dionysius Halicarnassus, de comp. verb., p. 157, 15 (22);
Longinus, de sublim. 41, 3; (others).)
STRONGS NT 1464: ἐκκοπῇἐκκοπῇ, ἐκκοπης, ἡ (Polybius, Plutarch, others), see ἐγκοπή.