# G2872 κοπιάω

κοπιάω (kopiáō), Strong’s G2872: to feel fatigue; by implication, to work hard KJV: (bestow) labour, toil, be wearied. Occurs 74 times.

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*kopiáō* — to feel fatigue; by implication, to work hard

KJV: (bestow) labour, toil, be wearied

Derived from [κόπος kópos](https://besorah.bible/word/G2873) (a cut)

Occurs 74 times.

## Where it occurs
- [Matthew 11:28](https://besorah.bible/besorah/matthew/11?v=28) — “Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.
- [Luke 5:5](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/5?v=5) — Simon answered him, “Master, we worked all night and caught nothing; but at your word I will let down the net.”
- [Luke 12:27](https://besorah.bible/besorah/luke/12?v=27) — Consider the lilies, how they grow. They don’t toil, neither do they spin; yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his…
- [John 4:6](https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/4?v=6) — Jacob’s well was there. Yeshua therefore, being tired from his journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth…
- [John 4:38](https://besorah.bible/besorah/john/4?v=38) — I sent you to reap that for which you haven’t labored. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor.”
- [Acts 20:35](https://besorah.bible/besorah/acts/20?v=35) — In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord…
- [Romans 16:6](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/16?v=6) — Greet Miriam, who labored much for us.
- [Romans 16:12](https://besorah.bible/besorah/romans/16?v=12) — Greet Tryphaena and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Greet Persis, the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.
- [1 Corinthians 4:12](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/4?v=12) — We toil, working with our own hands. When people curse us, we bless. Being persecuted, we endure.
- [1 Corinthians 15:10](https://besorah.bible/besorah/1-corinthians/15?v=10) — But by the grace of God I am what I am. His grace which was given to me was not futile, but I worked more than all of…