κοπετός G2870

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breast-beating

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

lamentation / lamentation / lamentation

Note

The beating of the breast in mourning: Gen 50:10; Acts 8:2 "they made great breast-beating over him." The noun of κόπτω middle "beat the breast" (95, 154h)

Rulings

2, 95, 154

Declared to share English with

G2875 — one root: breast-beating / beat the breast (154h)

Occurrences (1)

Genesis 50 (Septuagint)

50:10 And they came up to the threshing floor of Atad, which is across the Jordan, and they beat their breasts for him with a breast-beating great and very strong; and they made the mourning for his father seven days.