Original Word: ἀποκόπτω
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: apokoptó
Phonetic Spelling: (ap-ok-op'-to)
Short Definition: I smite, cut off, emasculate
Definition: I smite, cut off, cut loose; mid: I emasculate, castrate, mutilate myself.STRONGS NT 609: ἀποκόπτω

ἀποκόπτω: 1 aorist ἀπεκοψα; future middle ἀποκόψομαι; to cut off, amputate: Mark 9:43 (45); John 18:10, 26; Acts 27:32; ὄφελον καί ἀποκόψονται I would that they (who urge the necessity of circumcision would not only circumcise themselves, but) would even mutilate themselves (or cut off their privy parts), Galatians 5:12. ἀποκόπτεσθαι occurs in this sense in Deuteronomy 23:1; (Philo de alleg. leg. 3:3; de vict. off. § 13; cf. de spec. legg. i. § 7); Epictetus diss. 2, 20, 19; Lucian, Eun. 8; (Dion Cass. 79, 11; Diodorus Siculus 3, 31), and other passages quoted by Wetstein (1752) at the passage (and Sophocles Lexicon under the word). Others incorrectly: I would that they would cut themselves off from the society of Christians, quit it altogether; (cf. Meyer and Lightfoot at the passage).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

cut off.

From apo and kopto; to amputate; reflexively (by irony) to mutilate (the privy parts) -- cut off. Compare katatome.

see GREEK apo

see GREEK kopto

see GREEK katatome

Forms and Transliterations

απεκοψαν απέκοψαν ἀπέκοψαν απέκοψε απεκοψεν απέκοψεν ἀπέκοψεν αποκεκομμένοι αποκεκομμένος αποκόψει αποκόψεις αποκοψον απόκοψον ἀπόκοψον αποκοψονται αποκόψονται ἀποκόψονται apekopsan apékopsan apekopsen apékopsen apokopson apókopson apokopsontai apokópsontai

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