G2870

κοπετός

kopetosG:N-M

lamentation

κοπετός, -οῦ, ὁ (κόπτω, mid.), [in LXX chiefly for מִסְפֵּד ;] = cl. κομμός, a beating of the head and breast, lamentation: before ἐπί with dative of person(s), Act.8:2.† (AS)

The KJV translates G2870 in the following manner:

lamentation (2x)

Full Thayer's lexicon entry

κοπετός — kopetós

κοπετός, κοπετοῦ, ὁ (from κόπτομαι, see κόπτω), the Sept. for מִסְפֵּד; Latinplanctus, i. e. lamentation with beating of the breast as n sign of grief: κοπετόν ποιεῖσθαι ἐπί τίνι, Act 8:2; ἐπί τινα, Zec 12:10. (Eupolis in Bekker's annott. ad Etym. Magn., p. 776; Dionysius Halicarnassus, Antiquities 11, 31; Plutarch, Fab. 17.)

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