κόπος

Matthew 26:10 κόπους trouble

Aware of this, Jesus asked, “Why are you bothering this woman? She has done a beautiful deed to Me.

Here: Literally 'troubles' or 'toils', in the plural. Together with the next word it forms a fixed expression, 'to cause someone trouble': harassing, burdening or giving grief to someone.

Mark 14:6 κόπους trouble

But Jesus said, “Leave her alone; why are you bothering her? She has done a beautiful deed to Me.

Here: Plural, 'troubles'. Together with the next verb it forms a fixed expression meaning 'to bother, harass, give someone grief'.

Luke 11:7 κόπους trouble

And suppose the one inside answers, ‘Do not bother me. My door is already shut, and my children and I are in bed. I cannot get up to give you anything.’

Luke 18:5 κόπον trouble

yet because this widow keeps pestering me, I will give her justice. Otherwise, she will wear me out with her perpetual requests.’”

John 4:38 κόπον labor

I sent you to reap what you have not worked for; others have done the hard work, and now you have taken up their labor.”

Here: The noun from the same root as 'toiled'. Exhausting work, and by extension its results. To 'enter into' someone's toil means stepping into what that toil produced.

1 Corinthians 3:8 κόπον. labor.

He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor.

Here: Hard, tiring work, the effort itself. It is not the harvest it produces. Since verse 7 has just said that God alone makes things grow, what each worker is paid for is his toil, not his results.

1 Corinthians 15:58 κόπος toil

Therefore, my beloved brothers, be steadfast and immovable. Always excel in the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.

Here: Labor that wears you out, effort felt as exhaustion. A stronger word than ergon ('work') just before. Paul uses the same root for his own hard ministry in 15:10 ('I labored more than all of them').

2 Corinthians 6:5 κόποις, labors,

in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;

Here: Work hard enough to wear you out. This covers both Paul's manual trade, which he worked to support himself, and the effort of his mission.

2 Corinthians 10:15 κόποις, labors,

Neither do we boast beyond our limits in the labors of others. But we hope that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you will greatly increase as well,

2 Corinthians 11:23 κόποις labors

Are they servants of Christ? (I am speaking as if I were out of my mind.) I am so much more: in harder labor, in more imprisonments, in worse beatings, in frequent danger of death.

Here: Exhausting work. For Paul this includes his manual trade, done so he would not take money from the Corinthians (11:7–9), as well as his missionary work.

2 Corinthians 11:27 κόπῳ labor

in labor and toil and often without sleep, in hunger and thirst and often without food, in cold and exposure.

Here: Work hard enough to wear you out. It stands first and points back to verse 23 ("in labors far more"). In Paul's letters it often means the manual labor he did to support himself.

Galatians 6:17 κόπους troubles

From now on let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

Here: Plural "troubles". With the verb that follows it forms an everyday idiom, "to cause someone trouble, to bother or harass them". The plural suggests repeated annoyances: more challenges, more agitation, more demands.

1 Thessalonians 1:3 κόπου labor

and continually recalling before our God and Father your work of faith, your labor of love, and your enduring hope in our Lord Jesus Christ.

Here: A stronger word than 'work': labor hard enough to wear you out. Paul uses it for his own manual work 'night and day' in Thessalonica (2:9). Here it is the draining effort of caring for one another.

1 Thessalonians 2:9 κόπον labor

Surely you recall, brothers, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to anyone while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

Here: Work that wears you out; the stress falls on the weariness it causes. Paul uses it for both manual labor and the work of ministry.

1 Thessalonians 3:5 κόπος labor

For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter had somehow tempted you and that our labor might have been in vain.

Here: Hard, tiring work. In 2:9 the same word covers the missionaries' manual labor 'night and day' and their preaching. Here it means the whole effort of founding the community.

2 Thessalonians 3:8 κόπῳ labor

nor did we eat anyone’s food without paying for it. Instead, in labor and toil, we worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you.

Here: Work that wears you out. The word stresses the tiredness it leaves behind.

Revelation 2:2 κόπον labor

I know your deeds, your labor, and your perseverance. I know that you cannot tolerate those who are evil, and you have tested and exposed as liars those who falsely claim to be apostles.

Here: Hard work that wears you out, the kind that leaves you exhausted. It sets up the wordplay in 2:3: 'you have not grown weary.'

Revelation 14:13 κόπων labors

And I heard a voice from heaven telling me to write, “Blessed are the dead—those who die in the Lord from this moment on.” “Yes,” says the Spirit, “they will rest from their labors, for their deeds will follow them.”

Here: Exhausting, draining toil: the hardship of staying faithful under pressure, not simply 'work' or a job (compare 2:2, 'your works, your toil and your endurance').