Biblica Analytica
G2872 Greek

κοπιάω

kopiaō

to labor

Lexicon Entry

Definition
to labor
Transliteration
kopiaō
Strong's Number
G2872
Occurrences
23

Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

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Strong's
G2872
Lemma
κοπιάω
Transliteration
kopiaō
Definition
to labor
Occurrences
23
Model
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Occurrences in Scripture

23 total occurrences across the text

Matthew 6:28

Why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin,

Matthew 11:28

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Luke 5:5

Simon answered him, “Master, we worked all night, and took nothing; but at your word I will let down the net.”

Luke 12:27

Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

John 4:6

Jacob’s well was there. Jesus therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.

John 4:38

I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

John 4:38

I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”

Acts 20:35

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Romans 16:6

Greet Mary, who labored much for us.

Romans 16:12

Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.

Romans 16:12

Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 4:12

We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.

1 Corinthians 15:10

But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of them; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

1 Corinthians 16:16

that you also be in subjection to such, and to everyone who helps in the work and labors.

Galatians 4:11

I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

Ephesians 4:28

Let him who stole steal no more; but rather let him labor, producing with his hands something that is good, that he may have something to give to him who has need.

Philippians 2:16

holding up the word of life, that I may have something to boast in the day of Christ, that I didn’t run in vain nor labor in vain.

Colossians 1:29

for which I also labor, striving according to his working, which works in me mightily.

1 Thessalonians 5:12

But we beg you, brothers, to know those who labor among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you,

1 Timothy 4:10

For to this end we both labor and suffer reproach, because we have set our trust in the living God, who is the Savior of all men, especially of those who believe.

1 Timothy 5:17

Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of double honor, especially those who labor in the word and in teaching.

2 Timothy 2:6

The farmer who labors must be the first to get a share of the crops.

Revelation 2:3

You have perseverance and have endured for my name’s sake, and have not grown weary.