κόπος, -ου, ὁ
(< κόπτω), [in LXX chiefly for עָמָל, also for אָוֶן, etc.;]
1. a striking, beating (in Je 51:33 (45:3) = κοπετός).
2. laborious toil, trouble: Jo 4:38, I Co 3:815:58, I Th 3:5; κ. τ. ἀγάπης, I Th 1:3; ἔργα καὶ κ., Re 2:2; κ. καὶ μόχθος, II Co 11:27, I Th 2:9, II Th 3:8; pl., ἐν κ., II Co 6:510:1511:23; ἐκ τ. κ., Re 14:13; κόπους (-ον) παρέχειν (in cl. more freq. π. πράγματα, πονον), c. dat. pers., Mt 26:10, Mk 14:6, Lk 11:718:5, Ga 6:17.†
SYN.: μόλθος, labour; πόνος (q.v.), 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, s.v. κ.).