ekkoptō · cut off, cut down

What it means

ekkoptō (ἐκκόπτω) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “cut off, cut down”.

As a tree or a branch.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To fell something, like a tree.
2. To cut off completely, remove entirely.

From Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• cut down ×5
• cut off ×5

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×4
• Luke×3
• Romans×2
• 2 Corinthians×1

• Matthew 3:10

  And already the ax is laid at the root of the trees; so every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

• Matthew 5:30

  And if your right hand causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away from you; for it is better for you that one of your members perish and not your whole body go off into Gehenna.

• Matthew 7:19

  Every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

• Matthew 18:8

  And if your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it from you; it is better for you to enter into life maimed or lame than having two hands or two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire.

• Luke 3:9

  And even now the ax is laid at the root of the trees; so every tree that does not produce good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.”

• Luke 13:7

  And he said to the vinedresser, ‘Look, for three years I have been coming looking for fruit on this fig tree, and I do not find any. Cut it down; why should it also use up the ground?’

• Luke 13:9

  and if it bears fruit in the future, well and good; but if not, you will cut it down.’”

• Romans 11:22

  See, then, the kindness and severity of God: on those who fell, severity; but on you, the kindness of God, if you remain in his kindness; otherwise you too will be cut off.

• Romans 11:24

  For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree and were grafted, contrary to nature, into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these, the natural branches, be grafted into their own olive tree?

• 2 Corinthians 11:12

  But what I am doing I will also do, so that I may cut off the opportunity of those who want an opportunity, so that in what they boast, they may be found just as we also are.