Biblical Greek

greek #2870 - κοπετός, οῦ, ὁ kopetos (a beating of the head and breast)

Original Word:	κοπετός, οῦ, ὁ
Transliteration:	kopetos
Definition:	a beating of the head and breast
Part of Speech:	Noun, Masculine
Phonetic Spelling:	(kop-et-os')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

lamentation.

From kopto; mourning (properly, by beating the breast) -- lamentation.

see GREEK kopto

Thayer's Greek Lexicon

Strong's 2870: κοπετός

κοπετός, κοπετοῦ, ὁ (from κόπτομαι, see κόπτω), the Sept. for מִסְפֵּד; Latinplanctus, i. e. lamentation with beating of the breast as n sign of grief: κοπετόνποιεῖσθαιἐπίτίνι, Acts 8:2; ἐπίτινα, Zechariah 12:10. (Eupolis in Bekker's annott. ad Etym. Magn., p. 776; Dionysius Halicarnassus, Antiquities 11, 31; Plutarch, Fab. 17.)

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Greek: 2870. κοπετός (kopetos) — 1 Occurrence
Acts 8:2 - N-AMS
GRK:καὶ ἐποίησαν κοπετὸν μέγαν ἐπ'
NAS: and made loud lamentation over him.
KJV: made great lamentation over him.
INT: and made lamentation great over

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