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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 hostility between you and the woman and between your offspring and her offspring; her offspring will attack your head, and you will attack her offspring's heel."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 8:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 8:5 - The waters kept on receding until the tenth month. On the first day of the tenth month, the tops of the mountains became visible.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:4 - Then they said, "Come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens so that we may make a name for ourselves. Otherwise we will be scattered across the face of the entire earth."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:11 - He reached a certain place where he decided to camp because the sun had gone down. He took one of the stones and placed it near his head. Then he fell asleep in that place

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:12 - and had a dream. He saw a stairway erected on the earth with its top reaching to the heavens. The angels of God were going up and coming down it

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 28:18

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 28:18 - Early in the morning Jacob took the stone he had placed near his head and set it up as a sacred stone. Then he poured oil on top of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:16 - When the chief baker saw that the interpretation of the first dream was favorable, he said to Joseph, "I also appeared in my dream and there were three baskets of white bread on my head.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:17 - In the top basket there were baked goods of every kind for Pharaoh, but the birds were eating them from the basket that was on my head."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 40:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 40:19 - In three more days Pharaoh will decapitate you and impale you on a pole. Then the birds will eat your flesh from you."

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 48:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 48:14 - Israel stretched out his right hand and placed it on Ephraim's head, although he was the younger. Crossing his hands, he put his left hand on Manasseh's head, 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 placed his right hand on Ephraim's head, it displeased him. So 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 - Joseph said to his father, "Not so, my father, for this 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 greater than the blessings of the eternal mountains or the desirable things of the age-old hills. They will be on the head of Joseph and on the brow of the prince of his brothers.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:9 - Do not eat it raw or boiled in water, but roast it over the fire with its head, its legs, and its entrails.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 16:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:16 - "This is what the LORD has commanded: 'Each person is to gather from it what he can eat, an omer per person according to the number of your people; each one will pick it up for whoever lives in his tent.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:6 - You are to put the turban on his head and put the holy diadem on the turban.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:7 - You are to 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 - "You are to present the bull at the front of the tent of meeting, and Aaron and his sons are to put their hands on the head of the bull.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:15 - "You are to take one ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on the ram's head,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:17 - Then you are to cut the ram into pieces and wash the entrails and its legs and put them on its pieces and on its head

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 29:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 29:19 - "You are to take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on the ram's head,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 38:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:26 - one beka per person, that is, a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, for everyone who crossed over to those numbered, from twenty years old or older, 603,550 in all.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:4 - He must lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it will 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 the sons of Aaron, the priests, must arrange the parts with the head and the suet on the wood that is in the fire on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:10 - "'If his offering is from the flock for a burnt offering - from the sheep or the goats - he must present a flawless male,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:12 - Next, the one presenting the offering must cut it into parts, with its head and its suet, and the priest must arrange them on the wood which is in the fire, on the altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 1:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:15 - The priest must present it at the altar, pinch off its head and offer the head up in smoke on the altar, and its blood must be drained out against the side of the altar.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:2 - He must lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, must splash the blood against the altar's sides.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:8 - He must lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it before the Meeting Tent, and the sons of Aaron must splash its blood against the altar's sides.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 3:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:13 - lay his hand on its head, and slaughter it before the Meeting Tent, and the sons of Aaron must splash its blood against the altar's sides.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:4 - He must bring the bull to the entrance of the Meeting Tent before the LORD, lay his hand on the head of the bull, and slaughter the bull before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:11

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:15 - the elders of the congregation must lay their hands on the head of the bull before the LORD, and someone must slaughter the bull before the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:24 - He must lay his hand on the head of the male goat and slaughter it in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered before the LORD - it is a sin offering.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:29 - He must lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter the sin offering in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 4:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:33 - He must lay his hand on the head of the sin offering and slaughter it for a sin offering in the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 5:8

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 5:8 - He must bring them to the priest and present first the one that is for a sin offering. The priest must pinch its head at the nape of its neck, but must not sever the head from the body.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:9 - Finally, he set the turban on his head and attached the gold plate, the holy diadem, to the front of the turban just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:12 - He then poured some of the anointing oil on the head of Aaron and anointed him to consecrate him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:14

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:18

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:18 - Then he presented the burnt offering ram 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 - Then he cut the ram into parts, and Moses offered the head, the parts, and the suet up in smoke,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 8:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 8:22 - Then he presented the second 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 - The burnt offering itself they handed to him by its parts, including 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 Eleazar and Ithamar his other two sons, "Do not dishevel the hair of your heads and do not tear your garments, so that you do not die and so that wrath does not come on the whole congregation. Your brothers, all the house of Israel, are to mourn the burning which the LORD has caused,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:12 - If, however, the disease breaks out on the skin so that the disease covers all the skin of the person with the infection from his head to his feet, as 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 a woman has an infection on the head or in the beard,

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:30

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:30 - the priest is to examine the infection, and if it appears to be deeper than the skin and the hair in it is reddish yellow and thin, then the priest is to pronounce the person unclean. It is scall, a disease of the head or the beard.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:40

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:40 - "When a man's head is bare so that he is balding in back, he is clean.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 13:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 13:41 - If his head is bare on the forehead so that he is balding in front, he is clean.

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