ΚΟΠΕΤΟΙ, κοπετοι
KOPETOI, kopetoi
Sounds Like: koh-pe-TOI
Translations: lamentation, wailing, mourning
From the root: ΚΟΠΕΤΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to a loud expression of grief, typically involving beating one's breast or head, often accompanied by wailing or crying. It describes a public and demonstrative display of sorrow, common in ancient mourning rituals.
Inflection: Plural, Nominative or Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G2870 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Josephus' The Jewish War
- Book Two — 1:6
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΟΠΕΤΟΣ.
These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.
- ΚΟΠΕΤΟΝ — lamentation, mourning, wailing, a lamentation, a mourning, a wailing
- ΚΟΠΕΤΟΣ — wailing, lamentation, a wailing, a lamentation
- ΚΟΠΕΤΟΥ — of lamentation, of mourning, of wailing
- ΚΟΠΕΤΩ — to lamentation, for lamentation, with lamentation, to a lamentation, for a lamentation, with a lamentation
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