Words

κοπάζω G2869

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abate

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

assuage / subside

Note

Of wind and water: "the wind abated" (Matt 14:32; Mark 4:39)

Rulings

2

Occurrences (4)

Genesis 8 (Septuagint)

• 8:1 And God remembered Noah, and all the beasts and all the cattle and all the flyers and all the creepers, as many as were with him in the chest; and God brought on a wind upon the land, and the water abated.
• 8:7 and he sent the raven to see whether the water had abated; and having gone out, it did not return until the water was dried up from the land.
• 8:8 And he sent the dove after it, to see whether the water had abated from the land.
• 8:11 And the dove came back to him toward evening, and she had a leaf of olive, a twig, in her mouth; and Noah came to know that the water had abated from the land.