κόπος

kovpo" kovpo",
kovpou,
oJ (
kovptw);1. equivalent to
tov
kovptein, a beating.2. equivalent to
kopetov", a beating of the breast in grief, sorrow ( ()).3. labor (so the Septuagint often for lm;[;), i. e. a. trouble (Aeschylus, Sophocles):
kovpou"
parevcein
tivni, to cause one trouble, make work for him, ; ; ; ;
kovpon
parevcein
tivni, . b. intense labor united with trouble, toil. (Euripides, Arstph;, others): universally, plural, ; ; of manual labor, joined with
movcqo" ((see below)), ;
ejn
kovpw/
kaiv
movcqw/ (toil and travail), (where L T Tr WH omit
ejn); ; of the laborious efforts of Christian virtue, ; ; plural ;
oJ
kovpo"
th'"
ajgavph", the labor to which love prompts, and which voluntarily assumes and endures trouble and pains for the salvation of others, ; Rec.; of toil in teaching, (on which see
eij", B. I. 3); ; of that which such toil in teaching accomplishes, ; plural (cf. ).*(Synonyms:
kovpo",
movcqo",
povno": primarily and in general classic usage,
povno" gives prominence to the effort (work as requiring force),
kovpo" to the fatigue,
movcqo" (chiefly poetic) to the hardship. But in the N. T.
povno" has passed over (in three instances out of four) to the meaning pain (hence it has no place in the `new Jerusalem', ); cf. the deterioration in the case of the allied
ponhrov",
pevnh". Schmidt, chapter 85; cf. Trench, sec. cii. (who would translate
povno", `toil',
kovpo", `weariness',
movcqo", `labor').)