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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)
Dictionary Aids

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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And I will put enmity

Between you and the woman,

And between your seed and her seed;

He shall [fn]bruise you on the head,

And you shall bruise him on the heel.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:5 - Now the water decreased steadily until the tenth month; in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, the tops of the mountains appeared.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4 - And they said, “Come, let us build for ourselves a city, and a tower whose top will reach into heaven, and let us make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of the whole earth.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:11 - And he reached [fn]a certain place and spent the night there because the sun had set; and he took one of the stones of the place and put it [fn]under his head and lay down in that place.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:12 - Then he had a dream, and behold, a [fn]ladder stood on the earth with its top touching heaven; and behold, the angels of God were ascending and descending on it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:18 -

So Jacob rose early in the morning and took the stone that he had put [fn]under his head and set it up as a pillar and poured oil on its top.

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And the chief baker saw that he had interpreted favorably, so he said to Joseph, “I also saw in my dream, and behold, there were three baskets of white bread on my head;

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:17 - and in the top basket there were some of all [fn]sorts of baked food for Pharaoh, and the birds were eating them out of the basket on my head.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:19 - within three more days Pharaoh will lift up your head off of you and will hang you on a tree, and the birds will eat your flesh off of you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:14 - But Israel stretched out his right hand and laid it on the head of Ephraim, who was the younger, and his left hand on Manasseh’s head, [fn]crossing his hands, [fn]although Manasseh was the firstborn.

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But Joseph saw that his father set his right hand on Ephraim’s head, and it was displeasing in his sight; so he took hold of his father’s hand to remove it from Ephraim’s head to Manasseh’s head.

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

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“The blessings of your father

Have surpassed the blessings of my ancestors

Up to the [fn]utmost bound of the everlasting hills;

May they be on the head of Joseph,

And on the top of the head of the one distinguished among his brothers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:9 - ‘Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with its entrails.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:16 - “This is [fn]what Yahweh has commanded, ‘Gather of it every man [fn]as much as he should eat; you shall take an [fn]omer apiece according to the number of persons 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 BoxExo 29:7 - “Then you shall take the anointing oil and pour it on his head and anoint him.

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“Then you shall bring the bull near before the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on the head of the bull.

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“You shall also take the 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 - “Then you shall cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its entrails and its legs, and put them [fn]with its pieces and [fn]its head.

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“Then you shall 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 Box Exo 38:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26 - a beka a head (that is, half a shekel according to the shekel of the sanctuary), for each one who passed over to those who were [fn]numbered, from twenty years old and upward, for 603,550 men.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:4 - ‘And he shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, that it may be accepted for him to make atonement on his behalf.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 1:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:8 - ‘Then Aaron’s sons the priests shall arrange the pieces, the head, and the suet over the wood which is on the fire that is on the altar.

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‘But if his offering is from the flock, of the sheep or of the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall bring near a male without blemish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:12 - ‘He shall then cut it into its pieces with its head and its suet, and the priest shall arrange them on the wood which is on the fire that is on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:15 - ‘And the priest shall bring it near to the altar and wring off its head and offer it up in smoke on the altar; and its blood is to be drained out on the side of the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:2 - ‘Then he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the doorway of the tent of meeting, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall splash the blood around on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:8 - and he shall lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it before the tent of meeting, and Aaron’s sons shall splash its blood around on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:13 - and he shall lay his hand on its head and slaughter it before the tent of meeting, and the sons of Aaron shall splash its blood around on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:4 - ‘Then he shall bring the bull to the doorway of the tent of meeting before Yahweh, and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull and slaughter the bull before Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:11 - ‘But the hide of the bull and all its flesh with its head and its legs and its entrails and its refuse,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:15 - ‘Then the elders of the congregation shall lay their hands on the head of the bull before Yahweh, and the bull shall be slaughtered before Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:24 - ‘Then he shall lay his hand on the head of the male goat and slaughter it in the place where [fn]they slaughter the burnt offering before Yahweh; it is a sin offering.

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

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:33 - ‘And he shall lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it for a sin offering in the place where [fn]they slay the burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:8 - ‘And he shall bring them to the priest, who shall bring near first that which is for the sin offering and shall nip its head at the front of its neck, but he shall not separate it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:9 - He also placed the turban on his head, and on the turban, at its front, he placed the golden plate, the holy crown, just as Yahweh had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:12 - Then he poured some of the anointing oil on Aaron’s head and anointed him, to set him apart as holy.

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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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Then he brought near 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 BoxLev 8:20 - And he cut the ram into its pieces. Then Moses offered up the head and the pieces and the suet in smoke.

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Then he brought near the second ram, the ram of [fn]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 in [fn]pieces, with the head, and he offered them up in smoke on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 10:6 - Then Moses said to Aaron and to his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not [fn]uncover your heads nor tear your clothes, so that you will not die and that He will not become wrathful against all the congregation. But your [fn]relatives, the whole house of Israel, shall weep over the burning which Yahweh has [fn]brought about.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:12 - “But if the leprosy breaks out farther on the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of him who has the infection from his head even to his feet, [fn]as far as the priest can see,

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“Now if a man or woman has an infection on the head or on the beard,

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:30 - then the priest shall look at the infection, and if it appears to be deeper than the skin, and there is thin yellowish hair in it, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a scale; it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.

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“Now if a [fn]man loses the hair of his head, he is bald; he is clean.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:41 - “And if his head becomes bald at the [fn]front and sides, he is bald on the forehead; he is clean.

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