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ΚΕΦΑΛΑΣ, κεφαλας
KEPHALAS, kephalas
Sounds Like: keh-fah-LAS
Translations: heads, (of) heads, (to) heads
From the root: ΚΕΦΑΛΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word refers to the anatomical head of a living being. It can also be used metaphorically to denote a chief, leader, or the top part of something. In the provided examples, it is used in the plural to refer to multiple heads, often in the context of people or deities.
Inflection: Plural, Accusative or Genitive, Feminine
Strong’s number: G2776 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Codex Sinaiticus
- Judges — 9:25
- Judith — 4:11, 9:9, 9:10
- 4 Maccabees — 15:20
- Psalms — 65:12, 67:22, 73:13, 108:25, 109:6
- Sirach — 36:9
- Joel — 4:7
- Matthew — 27:39
- Mark — 15:29
- Luke — 21:28
- Revelation — 4:4, 9:7, 9:19, 12:3, 13:1, 17:3, 17:7
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 3 — 6:146
- Book 6 — 10:197, 10:201, 10:203, 11:210, 14:374
- Book 8 — 7:185
- Book 9 — 6:127
- Book 10 — 8:145, 8:150
- Book 19 — 1:142, 3:216
- Book 20 — 6:123
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Numbers — 8:12
- Joshua — 7:6
- Judges — 9:25
- 1 Kings — 7:4, 21:31, 21:32
- 2 Kings — 10:7, 10:8
- 2 Chronicles — 3:15, 4:12
- Ezra (Alpha) — 8:72
- Judith — 4:11, 9:9
- 1 Maccabees — 3:47
- 2 Maccabees — 1:16, 10:25
- 4 Maccabees — 15:20
- Psalms — 65:12, 67:22, 73:13, 108:25, 109:6
- Psalms of Solomon — 2:28
- Odes — 6:13, 6:14
- Job — 1:17
- Sirach — 33:12
- Jeremiah — 14:4
- Letter of Jeremiah — 1:9, 1:30
- Ezekiel — 9:10, 11:21, 22:31, 23:42, 32:27, 44:20
- Amos — 2:7, 9:1
- Joel — 3:4, 3:7
- Habakkuk — 3:13, 3:14
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Matthew — 27:39
- Mark — 15:29
- Luke — 21:28
- Revelation — 4:4, 9:7, 9:19, 12:3, 13:1, 17:3, 17:7, 18:19
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
- 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
- ΚΕΦΑΛΗΝ — head, a head
- 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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