κοπιάω

kopiavw kopiavw,
kopiw' (3 person plural
kopiousin (for
kopiw'sin), Tr; cf.
ejrwtavw, at the beginning); 1 aorist
ejkopivasa; perfect
kekopivaka (2 person singular
kekopivake", L T Tr WH, cf. (Winer's Grammar, sec. 13, 2 c.); Buttmann, 43 (38) (and his translation of Apollonius Dyscolus, p. 54 n.; Tdf. Proleg., p. 123; WH's Appendix, p. 166; Sophocles' Lexicon, p. 39)); (
kovpo", which see);1. as in Aristophanes, Josephus, Plutarch, others, to grow weary, tired, exhausted, (with toil or burdens or grief): ; ;
kekopiakwv"
ejk
th'"
oJdoiporiva", (
uJpov
th'"
oJdoiporiva",Josephus, Antiquities 2, 15, 3;
dramou'ntai
kaiv
ouj
kopiasousi, ).2. in Biblical Greek alone, to labor with wearisome effort, to toil (the Septuagint for  [g"y:); of bodily labor: absolutely, ; ; (not Tdf.); ; ; ; ; (cf. Winer's Grammar, 556 (517); Buttmann, 390 (334));
tiv, upon a thing, . of the toilsome efforts of teachers in proclaiming and promoting the kingdom of God and Christ: ; (cf. ); followed by
ejn with the dative of the thing in which one labors,
ejn
lovgw/
kaiv
didaskaliva, ;
ejn
uJmi'n,among you, ;
ejn
kurivw/ (see
ejn, I. 6 b., p. 211b middle (L brackets the clause)), ;
eij"
tina, for one, for his benefit, ; (cf. Buttmann, 242 (200); Winer's Grammar, 503 (469));
eij"
tou'to, looking to this (viz. that piety has the promise of life), ;
eij"
oJ, to which end, ;
eij"
kenovn, in vain, (
kenw'"
ejkopivasa, of the frustrated labor of the prophets, ).*