Greek verb · G2893
κουφίζω
kouphizokoo-fid'-zo
intrans., to be light (poetic chiefly).; to lighten, make light
1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: kouphízō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2893is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 27New Testament books
- 1spelling
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2893
to unload
The King James renders it: lighten.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
kouphizo is rendered "intrans., to be light (poetic chiefly).; to lighten, make light". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.
- One of the uses stand in Acts, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "intrans., to be light (poetic chiefly).".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Acts 27:38After the men had eaten their fill, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.
The first use
After the men had eaten their fill, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.
Acts 27:38ἐκούφιζον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.
What the word means
The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: intrans., to be light (poetic chiefly)., and to lighten, make light.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| intrans., to be light (poetic chiefly). | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereActs 27:38After the men had eaten their fill, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea. |
| to lighten, make lightwith accusative, Act.27:38.† (AS) | Tagged as
| WhereActs 27:38After the men had eaten their fill, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea. |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 1, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
1 spelling and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- ἐκούφιζον1
The grammar of each form
- verb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-IAI-3P
Acts
one use
After the men had eaten their fill, they lightened the ship by throwing the grain into the sea.
- ἐκούφιζονekouphizonverb · imperfect active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: they were lightening
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.