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To abate

κοπάζωStrong’s G2869

kopazō

Appears in 3 verses of the New Testament

In short

Kopazō is the Greek word usually translated “ceased” and “abated”. It appears in 3 verses of the New Testament.

“And when they were come into the ship, the wind ceased.”
Matthew 14:32 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “ceased” and “abated”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • ceased 2
  • abated 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Mark 2
  • Matthew 1

2 books in all.

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Greek dictionary

κοπάζω kopazō · to abate

κοπάζω (κόπος), [in LXX: Gen.8:1, Est.2:1 7:10 (שָׁכַךְ), Rut.1:18, al. (חָדַל), חָדַל), Jon.1.11-12 (שָׁתַק), al. ;] to grow weary; of the wind (Hdt., Jh., l.with), to abate, cease raging: Mat.14:32, Mrk.4:39 6:51.† (AS)

From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “abate” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

ABA'TE, verb transitive

[Heb. Ch., to beat. The Saxon has the participle gebatod, abated. The prefix is sunk to a in abate and lost in beat. See Class Bd. No. 23, 33.]

  1. To beat down; to pull down; to destroy in any manner; as to abate a nuisance.
  2. To lessen; to diminish; to moderate; as to abate zeal; to abate pride; to abate a demand; to abate courage.
  3. To lessen; to mitigate; as to abate pain or sorrow.
  4. To overthrow; to cause to fail; to frustrate by judicial sentence; as to abate a writ.
All definitions and other forms of “abate”
  1. To deject; to depress; as to abate the soul. obsolete
  2. To deduct;
  3. To cause to fail; to annul.
  4. In Conneticut, to remit, as to abate a tax.

ABA'TE, verb intransitive

To decrease, or become less in strength or violence; as pain abates; a storm abates.

  1. To fail; to be defeated, or come to naught; as a writ abates.
  2. In law, to enter into a freehold after the death of the last occupant, and before the heir or devisee takes possession.
  3. In horsemanship, to perform well a downward motion.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.