ΚΕΦΑΛΗ, κεφαλη
KEPHALĒ, kephalē
Sounds Like: keh-fah-LEE
Translations: head, a head, chief, ruler, source, summit
From the root: ΚΕΦΑΛΗ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word primarily refers to the physical head of a body. Metaphorically, it can signify a person in authority or a leader, the origin or source of something, or the culmination or summit of a thing. It is used in various contexts to denote both literal and figurative meanings.
Inflection: Nominative, Singular, Feminine
Strong’s number: G2776 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
1 Enoch Greek Collection
Clement of Alexandria
- Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 7:20
Clement of Rome
- Clement’s First Letter — 37:5
Codex Sinaiticus
- Judith — 13:15, 14:15, 14:18
- Psalms — 139:10
- Proverbs — 4:9
- Ecclesiastes — 2:14
- Song of Solomon — 5:2, 5:11, 7:6
- Sirach — 25:15
- Isaiah — 7:8, 7:9
- Matthew — 5:36, 14:11
- John — 19:2, 20:12
- 1 Corinthians — 11:3, 11:5, 12:21
- Ephesians — 4:15, 5:23
- Colossians — 1:18, 2:10
- Revelation — 1:14
Ignatius of Antioch
- Ignatius’ Letter to the Trallians — 11:2
Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews
- Book 8 — 3:77
- Book 10 — 10:208
- Book 11 — 3:54
- Book 16 — 11:365
- Book 18 — 6:233, 6:237
- Book 20 — 3:58, 3:65
Josephus' The Jewish War
Justin Martyr
- Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 58:11
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- Genesis — 11:4, 28:12
- Exodus — 29:17, 39:2
- Leviticus — 4:11, 13:29, 13:40, 13:41, 13:44, 13:45
- Numbers — 6:9, 6:12
- Deuteronomy — 28:44
- 1 Samuel — 5:4
- 2 Samuel — 3:8, 4:8, 18:9, 20:21
- 2 Kings — 6:25, 6:31
- Judith — 13:15, 14:15, 14:18
- Psalms — 139:10
- Odes — 5:6
- Proverbs — 4:9
- Ecclesiastes — 2:14
- Song of Solomon — 5:2, 5:11, 7:5
- Sirach — 25:15
- Isaiah — 1:5, 7:8, 7:9
- Jeremiah — 9:1
- Ezekiel — 29:18
- Daniel (Theodotion) — 2:32, 2:38, 7:20
- Daniel (Old Greek) — 2:32, 2:38
- Jonah — 2:6
- Enoch — 17:2
The Shepherd of Hermas — Parables
- Parable 7 — 1:3
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Matthew — 5:36, 14:11
- John — 19:2, 20:12
- 1 Corinthians — 11:3, 11:5, 12:21
- Ephesians — 4:15, 5:23
- Colossians — 1:18, 2:10
- Revelation — 1:14
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
- 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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