Greek verb · G609
ἀποκόπτω
apokoptoap-ok-op'-to
to cut off
6 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: apokóptō
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G609is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G609
to amputate; reflexively (by irony) to mutilate (the privy parts)
The King James renders it: cut off.
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
apokopto is rendered "to cut off". It stands 6 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Two of the uses stand in Mark, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 9:43If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
Mark 9:43ἀπόκοψον
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Two of the word's six uses are in Mark.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- cut off2
- do cut off2
- cut away1
- will emasculate themselves1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀποκρίνομαι | apokrinomai | to answer | Uses231 |
| ἀποκτείνω | apokteino | to kill | Uses74 |
| ἀποκαλύπτω | apokalypto | to reveal | Uses26 |
| ἀποκάλυψις | apokalypsis | revelation | Uses17 |
| ἀποκαθίστημι | apokathistemi | to restore | Uses8 |
| ἀποκυλίω | apokylio | to roll away | Uses4 |
| ἀπόκειμαι | apokeimai | to lay up | Uses4 |
| ἀπόκρισις | apokrisis | answer | Uses4 |
| ἀποκρύπτω | apokrypto | to conceal | Uses4 |
| ἀποκεφαλίζω | apokephalizo | to behead | Uses4 |
| ἀπόκρυφος | apokryphos | concealed | Uses3 |
| ἀποκυέω | apokyeo | to generate | Uses2 |
and 5 more on the stem.
All 6, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings 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
- ἀπέκοψεν2
- ἀπόκοψον2
- ἀπέκοψαν1
- ἀποκόψονται1
The grammar of each form
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singular2V-AAI-3S
- verb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singular2V-AAM-2S
- verb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-AAI-3P
- verb · future middle, indicative · 3rd person plural1V-FMI-3P
Mark
two uses
If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
- ἀπόκοψονapokopsonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do cut off
If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.
- ἀπόκοψονapokopsonverb · aorist active, command · 2nd person singulartagged: do cut off
John
two uses
Then Simon Peter drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.
- ἀπέκοψενapekopsenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: cut off
One of the high priest’s servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Didn’t I see you with Him in the garden?”
- ἀπέκοψενapekopsenverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person singulartagged: cut off
Acts
one use
So the soldiers cut the ropes to the lifeboat and set it adrift.
- ἀπέκοψανapekopsanverb · aorist active, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: cut away
Galatians
one use
As for those who are agitating you, I wish they would proceed to emasculate themselves!
- ἀποκόψονταιapokopsontaiverb · future middle, indicative · 3rd person pluraltagged: will emasculate themselves
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.