κόπος

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: Joh 4,38, 1 Kor 3,8; 15,58, 1 Thess 3,5; κ. τ. ἀγάπης, 1 Thess 1,3 ἔργα καὶ κ., Åb 2,2 κ. καὶ μόχθος, 2 Kor 11,27, 1 Thess 2,9, 2 Thess 3,8; pl., ἐν κ., 2 Kor 6,5; 10,15; 11,23; ἐκ τ. κ., Åb 14,13 κόπονς (-ον) παρέχειν (in cl. more frequently π. πράγματα, πονον), with dative of person(s), Matt 26,10, Mark 14,6, Luk 11,7; 18,5, Gal 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, see word κ.)