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laborious toil, trouble G2873 G2873 = G2873 κόπος kopos G:N-M labor κόπος, -ου, ὁ (κόπτω) [in LXX chiefly for עָמָל, also for אָוֶן, etc. ;]
1. a striking, beating (in Jer.45:3 = κοπετός)
2. laborious toil, trouble: Jn 4:38, 1Kor 3:8 15:58, 1Tes 3:5; κ. τ. ἀγάπης, 1Tes 1:3; ἔργα καὶ κ., Obj 2:2; κ. καὶ μόχθος, 2Kor 11:27, 1Tes 2:9, 2Tes 3:8; pl., ἐν κ., 2Kor 6:5 10:15 11:23; ἐκ τ. κ., Obj 14:13; κόπονς (-ον) παρέχειν (in cl. more frequently π. πράγματα, πονον), with dative of person(s), Mt 26:10, Mk 14:6, Łk 11:7 18:5, Ga 6:17.† SYN.: μόλθος, labour; πόνος (which see), toil, painful effort; in cl., "π. gives prominence to the effort (work as requiring force), κ. to the fatigue, μ. (chiefly poetic) to the hardship" (Thayer, zob. word κ.) (AS)