κοπή

From the root of κόπτω (kóptō) +‎ -ή (-ḗ).

κοπή • (kopḗ) f (genitive κοπῆς); first declension

1. cutting in pieces
2. slaughter

• New Testament, Epistle to the Hebrews 7:1:

  Οὗτος γὰρ ὁ Μελχισεδέκ, βασιλεὺς Σαλήμ, ἱερεὺς τοῦ Θεοῦ τοῦ ὑψίστου, ὁ συναντήσας Ἀβραὰμ ὑποστρέφοντι ἀπὸ τῆς κοπῆς τῶν βασιλέων καὶ εὐλογήσας αὐτόν,

  Hoûtos gàr ho Melkhisedék, basileùs Salḗm, hiereùs toû Theoû toû hupsístou, ho sunantḗsas Abraàm hupostréphonti apò tês kopês tôn basiléōn kaì eulogḗsas autón,

  • Translation by KJV

    For this Melchisedec, king of Salem, priest of the most high God, who met Abraham returning from the slaughter of the kings, and blessed him;

• κοπίς (kopís)

• Greek: κοπή (kopí)

• κοπή in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
• κοπή, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011
• “κοπή”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• G2871 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• κοπή in Trapp, Erich, et al. (1994–2007) Lexikon zur byzantinischen Gräzität besonders des 9.-12. Jahrhunderts [the Lexicon of Byzantine Hellenism, Particularly the 9th–12th Centuries], Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

From Ancient Greek κοπή. See κόπτω, κόβω (kóvo, “I cut”).

• IPA^(key): /koˈpi/
• Hyphenation: κο‧πή
• Homophone: κοπεί (kopeí)

κοπή • (kopí) f (plural κοπές)

1. cutting, felling, chopping

• ξύλο κοπής n (xýlo kopís, “chopping board”)

Compounds:

• ανακοπή f (anakopí, “stoppage”)
• αποκοπή f (apokopí)
• διακοπή f (diakopí, “interruption”)
• εγκοπή f (egkopí)
• περικοπή f (perikopí)
• προκοπή f (prokopí, “advancement”)
• συγκοπή f (sygkopí, “cardiac arrest; syncope”)
• τριτανακοπή f (tritanakopí) (law)

Other κοπ- words

• αδιάκοπος (adiákopos, “uninterrupted”)
• άκοπος (ákopos, “uncut; not hard”)
• δίκοπος (díkopos)

• and see: κόβω (kóvo, “cut”) and κόπτω