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Lexicon :: Strong's G2776 - kephalē

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κεφαλή
Transliteration
kephalē (Key)
Pronunciation
kef-al-ay'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
From the primary kapto (in the sense of seizing)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 3:673,429

Strong’s Definitions

κεφαλή kephalḗ, kef-al-ay'; from the primary κάπτω káptō (in the sense of seizing); the head (as the part most readily taken hold of), literally or figuratively:—head.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 76x

The KJV translates Strong's G2776 in the following manner: head (76x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 76x
The KJV translates Strong's G2776 in the following manner: head (76x).

  1. the head, both of men and often of animals. Since the loss of the head destroys life, this word is used in the phrases relating to capital and extreme punishment.

  2. metaph. anything supreme, chief, prominent

    1. of persons, master lord: of a husband in relation to his wife

    2. of Christ: the Lord of the husband and of the Church

    3. of things: the corner stone

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κεφαλή kephalḗ, kef-al-ay'; from the primary κάπτω káptō (in the sense of seizing); the head (as the part most readily taken hold of), literally or figuratively:—head.
STRONGS G2776:
κεφαλή, κεφαλῆς, ἡ, the Sept. for רֹאשׁ; the head, both of men: Matthew 5:36; Mark 6:24; Luke 7:38, 44 (Rec.),46; John 13:9; Acts 18:18; 1 Corinthians 11:4; Revelation 1:14; Revelation 4:4, and often; and of animals: Revelation 9:7, 17, 19, etc.; on the phrases κλίνειν τήν κεφαλήν, ἐπαίρειν τήν κεφαλήν, see κλίνω, 1 and ἐπαίρω; on the saying in Romans 12:20, see under ἄνθραξ. Since the loss of the head destroys the life, κεφαλή is used in phrases relating to capital and extreme punishments: so in τό αἷμα ὑμῶν ἐπί τήν κεφαλήν ὑμῶν (see αἷμα, 2 a., p. 15{b}), Acts 18:6, and similar phrases in classical Greek; see Passow, under the word, p. 1717{a}; Pape under the word, 3; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, I. 3 and 4). Metaphorically, anything supreme, chief, prominent; of persons, master, lord: τίνος, of a husband in relation to his wife, 1 Corinthians 11:3; Ephesians 5:23; of Christ, the lord of the husband, 1 Corinthians 11:3 (cf. Buttmann, 124f (109)); of the church, Ephesians 4:15; Ephesians 5:23; Colossians 2:19 (cf. Buttmann, § 143, 4 c.); τοῦ σώματος τῆς ἐκκλησίας, Colossians 1:18; πάσης ἀρχῆς καί ἐξουσίας, Colossians 2:10; so Judges 11:11; 2 Samuel 22:44, and in Byzantine writings of things: κεφαλῆς γωνίας, the corner-stone, see γωνία, a. ((From Homer down.))
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Judges
11:11
2 Samuel
22:44
Matthew
5:36
Mark
6:24
Luke
7:38; 7:44
John
13:9
Acts
18:6; 18:18
Romans
12:20
1 Corinthians
11:3; 11:3; 11:4
Ephesians
4:15; 5:23; 5:23
Colossians
1:18; 2:10; 2:19
Revelation
1:14; 4:4; 9:7; 9:17; 9:19

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2776 matches the Greek κεφαλή (kephalē),
which occurs 339 times in 314 verses in the LXX Greek.

Page 1 / 7 (Gen 3:15–Lev 13:41)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:15 - And I will put enmity between thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed, he shall [fn]watch against thy head, and thou shalt [fn]watch against his heel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:5 - And in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the heads of the mountains were seen.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4 - And they said, Come, let us build to ourselves a city and tower, whose top shall be to heaven, and let us make to ourselves a name, before we are scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:11 - And came to a certain place and slept there, for the sun had gone down; and he took one of the stones of the place, and put it at his head, and lay down to sleep in that place,

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:12 - and dreamed, and behold a ladder fixed on the earth, whose top reached to heaven, and the angels of God ascended and descended on it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:18 - And Jacob rose up in the morning, and took the stone [fn]he had laid there by his head, and he set it up as a pillar, and poured oil on the top of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:16 - And the chief baker saw that he interpreted aright; and he said to Joseph, I also saw a dream, and methought I took up on my head three baskets of mealy food.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:17 - And in the upper basket there was the work of the baker of every kind which Pharao eats; and the fowls of the air ate them out of the basket that was on my head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:19 - Yet three days, and Pharao shall take away thy head from off thee, and shall hang thee on a tree, and the birds of the sky shall eat thy flesh from off thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:14 - But Israel having stretched out his right hand, laid it on the head of Ephraim, and he was the younger; and his left hand on the head of Manasse, guiding his hands crosswise.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:17 - And Joseph having seen that his father put his right hand on the head of Ephraim—it seemed grievous to him; and Joseph took hold of the hand of his father, to remove it from the head of Ephraim to the head of Manasse.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:18 - And Joseph said to his father, Not so, father; for this is the first-born; lay thy right-hand upon his head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:26 - the blessings of thy father and thy mother—it has prevailed above the blessing of the lasting mountains, and beyond the blessings of the everlasting hills; they shall be upon the head of Joseph, and upon the head of the brothers of whom he took the lead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:9 - Ye shall not eat of it raw nor sodden in water, but only roast with fire, the head with the feet and the appurtenances.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:16 - This is the bread which the Lord has given you to eat. This is that which the Lord has appointed: gather of it each man for his family, a homer for each person, [fn]according to the number of your souls, gather each of you with his fellow-lodgers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:6 - And thou shalt put the mitre on his head; and thou shalt put the plate, even the Holiness, on the mitre.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:7 - And thou shalt take of the anointing oil, and thou shalt pour it on his head, and shalt anoint him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:10 - And thou shalt bring the calf to the door of the tabernacle of witness; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the calf, before the Lord, by the doors of the tabernacle of witness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:15 - And thou shalt take one ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:17 - And thou shalt divide the ram by his several limbs, and thou shalt wash the inward parts and the feet with water, and thou shalt put them on the divided parts with the head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:19 - And thou shalt take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26 - (LXX 39:3) Every one that passed the survey from twenty years old and upwards to the number of six hundred thousand, and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:4 - And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt-offering as a thing acceptable for him, to make atonement for him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:8 - And the sons of Aaron the priests shall pile up the divided parts, and the head, and the fat on the wood on the fire, the wood which is on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:10 - And if his gift be of the sheep to the Lord, or of the lambs, or of the kids for whole-burnt-offerings, he shall bring it a male without blemish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:12 - And they shall divide it by its limbs, and its head and its fat, and the priests shall pile them up on the wood which is on the fire, on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:15 - And the priest shall bring it to the altar, and shall wring off its head; and the priest shall put it on the altar, and shall wring out the blood at the bottom of the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:2 - And he shall lay his hands on the head of the gift, and shall slay it before the Lord, by the doors of the tabernacle of witness. And the priests the sons of Aaron shall pour the blood on the altar of burnt-offerings round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:8 - And he shall lay his hands on the head of his offering, and shall slay it by the doors of the tabernacle of witness; and the priests the sons of Aaron shall pour out the blood on the altar round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:13 - And he shall lay his hands on its head; and they shall slay it before the Lord by the doors of the tabernacle of witness; and the priests the sons of Aaron shall pour out the blood on the altar round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:4 - And he shall bring the calf to the door of the tabernacle of witness before the Lord, and he shall put his hand on the head of the calf before the Lord, and shall slay the calf in the presence of the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:11 - And they shall take the skin of the calf, and all his flesh with the head and the extremities and the belly and the dung,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:15 - And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the calf before the Lord, and they shall slay the calf before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:24 - And he shall lay his hand on the head of the kid, and they shall kill it in the place where they kill the victims for whole-burnt-offerings before the Lord; it is a sin-offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:29 - And he shall lay his hand on the head of his sin-offering, and they shall slay the kid of the sin-offering in the place where they slay the victims for whole-burnt-offerings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:33 - And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin-offering, and they shall kill it in the place where they kill the victims for whole-burnt-offerings.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:8 - And he shall bring them to the priest, and the priest shall bring the sin-offering first; and the priest shall pinch off the head from the neck, and shall not divide the body.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:9 - And he put the mitre on his head, and put upon the mitre in front the golden plate, the most holy thing, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:12 - And Moses poured of the anointing oil on the head of Aaron; and he anointed him and sanctified him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:14 - And Moses brought near the calf for the sin-offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the calf of the sin-offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:18 - And Moses brought near the ram for a whole-burnt-offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram. And Moses slew the ram: and Moses poured the blood on the altar round about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:20 - And Moses offered up the whole ram on the altar: it is a whole-burnt-offering for a sweet-smelling savour; it is a burnt-offering to the Lord, as the Lord commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:22 - and Moses took of his blood, and put it upon the tip of Aaron's right ear, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:13 - And they brought the whole-burnt-offering, according to its pieces; them and the head he put upon the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:6 - And Moses said to Aaron, and Eleazar and Ithamar his sons that were left, Ye shall not make bare your heads, and ye shall not tear your garments; that ye die not, and so there should be wrath on all the congregation: but your brethren, even all the house of Israel, shall lament for the burning, with which they were burnt by the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:12 - And if the leprosy should have come out very evidently in the skin, and the leprosy should cover all the skin of the patient from the head to the feet, wheresoever the priest shall look;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:29 - And if a man or a woman have in them a plague of leprosy in the head or the beard;

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:30 - then the priest shall look on the plague, and, behold, if the appearance of it be beneath the skin, and in it there be thin yellowish hair, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a scurf, it is a leprosy of the head or a leprosy of the beard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:40 - And if any one's head should lose the hair, he is only bald, he is clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:41 - And if his head should lose the hair in front, he is forehead bald: he is clean.

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