Word Summary
kyptō: to stoop down
Original Word: κύπτωTransliteration: kyptō
Phonetic Spelling: (koop'-to)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to stoop down
Meaning: to stoop down
Strong's Concordance
stoop down.
Probably from the base of kuma; to bend forward -- stoop (down).
see GREEK kuma
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2955: κύπτωκύπτω: 1 aorist participle
κύψας; (from
κυβη the head (cf.
Vanicek, p. 164; especially
Curtius, index under the word)); from
Homer down; the
Sept. chiefly for
קָדַד;
to bow the head, bend forward, stoop down:
Mark 1:7; with
κάτω added (
Aristophanes vesp. 279),
John 8:6, 8. (Compare:
ἀνακύπτω,
παρακύπτω,
συγκύπτω.)