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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 Box Gen 3:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:15 - I will put enmity between you and the woman,
and between your offspring[fn] and her offspring;
he shall bruise your head,
and you shall bruise his heel.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:5 - And the waters continued to abate until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains were seen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4 - Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:11 - And he came to a certain place and stayed there that night, because the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of the place, he put it under his head and lay down in that place to sleep.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:12 - And he dreamed, and behold, there was a ladder[fn] set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. And behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it!

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:18 - So early in the morning Jacob took the stone that he had put under his head and set it up for a pillar and poured oil on the top of it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:16 - When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I also had a dream: there were three cake baskets on my head,

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:17 - and in the uppermost basket there were all sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating it out of the basket on my head.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:19 - In three days Pharaoh will lift up your head—from you!—and hang you on a tree. And the birds will eat the flesh from you.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:14 - And Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on the head of Manasseh, crossing his hands (for Manasseh was the firstborn).

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:17 - When Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand on the head of Ephraim, it displeased him, and he took his father’s hand to move it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:18 - And Joseph said to his father, “Not this way, my father; since this one is the firstborn, put your right hand on his head.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:26

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:26 - The blessings of your father
are mighty beyond the blessings of my parents,
up to the bounties of the everlasting hills.[fn]
May they be on the head of Joseph,
and on the brow of him who was set apart from his brothers.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:9 - Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:16 - This is what the LORD has commanded: ‘Gather of it, each one of you, as much as he can eat. You shall each take an omer,[fn] according to the number of the persons that each of you has in his tent.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:6 - And you shall set the turban on his head and put the holy crown on the turban.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:7 - You shall take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:10 - “Then you shall bring the bull before the tent of meeting. Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:15 - “Then you shall take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:17 - Then you shall cut the ram into pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them with its pieces and its head,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:19 - “You shall take the other ram, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the ram,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26 - a beka[fn] a head (that is, half a shekel, by the shekel of the sanctuary), for everyone who was listed in the records, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:4 - He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:8 - And Aaron’s sons the priests shall arrange the pieces, the head, and the fat, on the wood that is on the fire on the altar;

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:10 - “If his gift for a burnt offering is from the flock, from the sheep or goats, he shall bring a male without blemish,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:12 - And he shall cut it into pieces, with its head and its fat, and the priest shall arrange them on the wood that 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 wring off its head and burn it on the altar. Its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:2 - And he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and kill it at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall throw the blood against the sides of the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:8 - lay his hand on the head of his offering, and kill it in front of the tent of meeting; and Aaron’s sons shall throw its blood against the sides of the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:13 - and lay his hand on its head and kill it in front of the tent of meeting, and the sons of Aaron shall throw its blood against the sides of the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:4 - He shall bring the bull to the entrance of the tent of meeting before the LORD and lay his hand on the head of the bull and kill the bull before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:11 - But the skin of the bull and all its flesh, with its head, its legs, its entrails, and its dung—

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:15 - And the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before the LORD, and the bull shall be killed before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:24 - and shall lay his hand on the head of the goat and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD; it is a sin offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:29 - And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill the sin offering in the place of burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:33 - and lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:8 - He shall bring them to the priest, who shall offer first the one for the sin offering. He shall wring its head from its neck but shall not sever it completely,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:9 - And he set the turban on his head, and on the turban, in front, he set the golden plate, the holy crown, as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:12 - And he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him to consecrate him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:14

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:14 - Then he brought the bull of the sin offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the bull of the sin offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:18 - Then he presented the ram of the burnt offering, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:20 - He cut the ram into pieces, and Moses burned the head and the pieces and the fat.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:22 - Then he presented the other ram, the ram of ordination, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands on the head of the ram.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 9:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 9:13 - And they handed the burnt offering to him, piece by piece, and the head, and he burned them on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:6 - And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar his sons, “Do not let the hair of your heads hang loose, and do not tear your clothes, lest you die, and wrath come upon all the congregation; but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning that the LORD has kindled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:12 - And if the leprous disease breaks out in the skin, so that the leprous disease covers all the skin of the diseased person from head to foot, so far as the priest can see,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:29 - “When a man or woman has a disease on the head or the beard,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:30 - the priest shall examine the disease. And if it appears deeper than the skin, and the hair in it is yellow and thin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean. It is an itch, a leprous disease of the head or the beard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:40 - “If a man’s hair falls out from his head, he is bald; he is clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:41 - And if a man’s hair falls out from his forehead, he has baldness of the forehead; he is clean.

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