ἀποκόπτω apokóptō
Meaning
to amputate; reflexively (by irony) to mutilate (the privy parts)
In the King James Version: cut off
Derivation: from G575 (ἀπό) and G2875 (κόπτω);
Where it is used
- Mark 9:43 If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go into hell, into the unquenchable fire.
- Mark 9:45 If your foot causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life lame than to have two feet and be thrown into hell.
- John 18:10 Then Simon Peter drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest, cutting off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.
- John 18:26 One of the high priest’s servants, a relative of the man whose ear Peter had cut off, asked, “Didn’t I see you with Him in the garden?”
- Acts 27:32 So the soldiers cut the ropes to the lifeboat and set it adrift.
- Galatians 5:12 As for those who are agitating you, I wish they would proceed to emasculate themselves!