ἀποκόπτω
apokoptō
“to cut off”
Definition
to amputate; reflexively (by irony) to mutilate (the privy parts)
from G575 (ἀπό) and G2875 (κόπτω);
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Occurrences
ἀποκόπτω appears 6 times in the New Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
So the soldiers cut the ropes to the lifeboat and set it adrift.
As for those who are agitating you, I wish they would proceed to emasculate themselves!
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.
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?”
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.
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