Word Summary
ekkoptō: to cut off, cut down, cut out, to frustrate
Original Word: ἐκκόπτωTransliteration: ekkoptō
Phonetic Spelling: (ek-kop'-to)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to cut off, cut down, cut out, to frustrate
Meaning: to cut off, cut down, cut out, to frustrate
Strong's Concordance
cut down, cut out, hew down, hinder.
From ek and kopto; to exscind; figuratively, to frustrate -- cut down (off, out), hew down, hinder.
see GREEK ek
see GREEK kopto
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 1581: ἐκκόπτωἐκκόπτω: future
ἐκκόψω; 1 aorist imperative
ἔκκοψον, subjunctive
ἐκκόψω; (passive, present
ἐκκόπτομαι); 2 aorist
ἐξεκοπην; 2 future
ἐκκοπήσομαι;
to cut out, cut off;
a. properly: of a tree, Matthew 3:10; Matthew 7:19; Luke 3:9; Luke 13:7, 9 (Herodotus 9, 97, etc.); a hand, an eye: Matthew 5:30; Matthew 18:8 (τόν ὀφθυλμον, Demosthenes, p. 744 (13) 17); passive ἐκ τίνος, a branch from a tree, Romans 11:22, 24.
b. figuratively: τήν ἀφορμήν, to cut off occasion, 2 Corinthians 11:12 (τήν ἐλπίδα, Job 19:10). In 1 Peter 3:7 read ἐγκόπτεσθαι; see ἐγκόπτω.