2001 Translation

KEPHALĒN, kephalēn

Sounds Like: keh-fah-LEEN

Translations: head, a head

From the root: ΚΕΦΑΛΗ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the physical head of a body. It can also be used metaphorically to denote a leader, chief, or origin, depending on the context, such as 'the head of a household' or 'the head of a river'.

Inflection: Singular, Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G2776 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Barnabus

• Letter of Barnabas — 6:4, 7:8, 13:5

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:23
• To the Newly Baptized — 1:1

Clement of Rome

• Clement’s First Letter — 16:16, 56:5

Codex Sinaiticus

• Leviticus — 21:5, 21:10
• Judges — 5:26, 5:30, 7:25, 8:28, 9:53, 9:57
• 1 Chronicles — 10:9
• 2 Esdras — 13:36
• Esther — 4:17k, 5:1d, 6:8
• Judith — 8:22, 13:9, 13:15, 14:1, 14:6
• 1 Maccabees — 3:47, 7:47, 11:13, 11:17, 11:71
• Psalms — 3:4, 7:17, 17:44, 20:4, 21:8, 22:5, 26:6, 37:5, 73:14, 82:3, 109:7, 117:22, 139:8, 140:5
• Proverbs — 11:26
• Song of Solomon — 2:6, 8:3
• Job — 16:4, 40:31
• Sirach — 4:7, 11:1, 11:13, 12:18, 13:7, 17:23, 25:15, 27:25, 38:3, 44:23
• Isaiah — 8:8
• Zechariah — 3:5, 6:11
• Matthew — 6:17, 14:8, 21:42, 27:30
• Mark — 6:25, 6:27, 12:10, 15:19
• Luke — 7:46, 20:17
• John — 13:9, 19:30
• Acts of the Apostles — 4:11, 18:6, 18:18, 21:24
• Romans — 12:20
• 1 Corinthians — 11:4, 11:5
• Ephesians — 1:22
• Colossians — 2:19
• 1 Peter — 2:7
• Revelation — 19:12
• Epistle of Barnabas — 6:4, 13:5

Josephus' Against Apion

• Book One — 10:114, 10:120
• Book Two — 10:114, 10:120

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 19:279
• Book 2 — 12:272, 14:310
• Book 3 — 6:120
• Book 6 — 9:190, 9:192, 13:284, 13:289
• Book 7 — 1:1, 2:49, 2:52, 9:204, 10:252, 11:291, 11:292
• Book 8 — 1:15, 11:266, 13:344, 14:389, 14:390, 14:391
• Book 9 — 4:62, 4:67, 4:68, 11:233
• Book 10 — 10:206
• Book 11 — 5:141
• Book 13 — 3:69, 7:118
• Book 14 — 9:173, 13:367, 15:450, 15:464
• Book 16 — 10:329
• Book 17 — 7:187, 10:276
• Book 18 — 5:115
• Book 19 — 4:239, 4:258
• Book 20 — 4:89, 5:98

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book One — 18:3, 25:22, 26:3, 31:12, 32:18, 33:10
• Book Two — 12:24, 16:53
• Book Three — 7:99, 7:114
• Book Four — 4:38
• Book Five — 5:52, 13:15

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 38:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 32:6, 33:2, 49:4, 91:1, 98:3, 101:3

Pseudo-Baruch

• The Greek Apocalypse of Baruch (3 Baruch) — 7:4

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Genesis — 3:15, 40:19, 48:14, 48:17, 48:18, 49:26
• Exodus — 12:9, 16:16, 29:6, 29:7, 29:10, 29:15, 29:19
• Leviticus — 1:4, 1:8, 1:10, 1:12, 1:15, 3:2, 3:8, 3:13, 4:4, 4:15, 4:24, 4:29, 4:33, 5:8, 8:9, 8:12, 8:14, 8:18, 8:20, 8:22, 9:13, 10:6, 14:9, 14:18, 14:29, 16:21, 21:5, 21:10, 24:14
• Numbers — 1:2, 1:18, 1:20, 1:22, 1:24, 1:26, 1:28, 1:30, 1:32, 1:34, 1:36, 1:38, 1:40, 1:42, 3:47, 5:18, 6:5, 6:9, 6:11, 6:18
• Deuteronomy — 21:6, 21:12, 28:13, 33:16
• Judges — 5:26, 5:30, 7:25, 8:28, 9:53, 9:57, 11:11, 13:5, 16:17
• 1 Samuel — 1:11, 10:1, 17:38, 17:46, 17:51, 17:54, 25:39
• 2 Samuel — 1:10, 1:16, 2:16, 2:25, 3:29, 4:7, 4:8, 4:12, 13:19, 14:26, 15:30, 16:9, 20:22, 22:44
• 1 Kings — 2:32, 2:33, 2:37, 2:44, 8:32
• 2 Kings — 4:19, 6:32, 9:3, 9:6, 9:30, 10:6, 19:21, 25:27
• 1 Chronicles — 10:9, 10:10, 20:2, 23:3, 23:24, 25:1
• 2 Chronicles — 6:23
• Nehemiah — 4:5
• Esther — 4:17, 5:1
• Judith — 8:3, 8:22, 9:1, 13:8, 13:9, 13:15, 14:1, 14:6, 14:11
• 1 Maccabees — 4:39, 7:47, 11:13, 11:17, 11:71
• 2 Maccabees — 15:30, 15:32
• Psalms — 3:4, 7:17, 17:44, 20:4, 21:8, 22:5, 26:6, 37:5, 82:3, 109:7, 117:22, 132:2, 139:8, 140:5
• Psalms of Solomon — 2:21
• Proverbs — 10:6, 10:22, 11:26, 25:22
• Ecclesiastes — 9:8
• Song of Solomon — 2:6, 8:3
• Job — 16:5, 40:26
• Sirach — 4:7, 11:1, 11:13, 12:18, 13:7, 17:23, 20:11, 25:15, 27:25, 38:3, 44:23
• Isaiah — 7:20, 8:8, 9:14, 19:15, 37:22
• Jeremiah — 7:29, 18:16, 31:37, 38:7, 52:31
• Lamentations — 1:5, 2:10, 2:15, 3:5, 3:54
• Letter of Jeremiah — 1:21
• Baruch — 5:2
• Ezekiel — 5:1, 7:18, 13:18, 16:12, 16:43, 17:19, 27:30
• Daniel (Theodotion) — 1:10, 13:34, 13:55, 13:59
• Daniel (Old Greek) — 4:16, 7:1
• Amos — 8:10
• Obadiah — 1:15
• Jonah — 4:8
• Zechariah — 1:21, 3:5, 6:11

The Shepherd of Hermas — Commandments

• Mandate 11 — 1:20

The Shepherd of Hermas — Visions

• Vision 4 — 1:6, 3:1

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Matthew — 6:17, 8:20, 14:8, 21:42, 27:30
• Mark — 6:24, 6:25, 6:27, 6:28, 12:10, 15:19
• Luke — 7:46, 9:58, 20:17
• John — 13:9, 19:30
• Acts — 4:11, 18:6, 18:18, 21:24
• Romans — 12:20
• 1 Corinthians — 11:4, 11:5, 11:7
• Ephesians — 1:22
• Colossians — 2:19
• 1 Peter — 2:7
• Revelation — 10:1, 14:14, 19:12

Twelve Disciples

• The Didache — 7:3

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΚΕΦΑΛΗ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΑΝΑΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΩΣΗ — recapitulation, summing up, a summing up
• ΚΑΙΦΑΛΕΑ — head, a head
• ΚΑΙΦΑΛΗ — head, a head, chief, ruler, source, origin
• ΚΑΙΦΑΛΗΗΝ — head, a head
• ΚΑΙΦΑΛΗΝ — head, a head, (of) head, (to) head
• ΚΑΙΦΑΛ‾Η‾ — head, a head, chief, leader, source, origin, summit
• ΚΑΦΑΛΗ — head, a head, chief, a chief, ruler, a ruler, top, a top, summit, a summit, origin, an origin
• ΚΕΦ — head, a head, chief, a chief, ruler, a ruler, summit, a summit, top, a top
• ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙ — heads, a head, of a head, to a head
• ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΟΝ — sum, main point, chapter, capital, a capital, a sum
• ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΟΣ — chief, principal, summary, main point, a chief, a principal
• ΚΕΦΑΛΑΙΣ — on heads, to heads, for heads
• ΚΕΦΑΛΑΣ — heads, (of) heads, (to) heads
• ΚΕΦΑΛΕΑ — head, a head, chief, a chief, top, a top, summit, a summit, origin, an origin, source, a source
• ΚΕΦΑΛΗ — head, a head, chief, ruler, source, summit
• ΚΕΦΑΛΗΣ — of head, of a head, of a leader, of a source
• ΚΕΦΑΛΙΔΩΝ — of little heads, of capitals, of chapiters
• ΚΕΦΑΛΙΟΝ — small head, chapter, summary, main point, a small head, a chapter, a summary, a main point
• ΚΕΦΑΛΙΣ — little head, small head, scroll, roll of a book, a chapter, a section
• ΚΕΦΑΛΩ — (to) heads, (to) a head
• ΚΕΦΑΛΩΝ — of heads
• ΤΗΝΚΕΦΑΛΗΝ — the head, a head
• ΤΗΣΚΕΦΑΛΗΣ — of the head, of a head

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