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Lexicon :: Strong's G2777 - kephalis

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κεφαλίς
Transliteration
kephalis (Key)
Pronunciation
kef-al-is'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Strong’s Definitions

κεφαλίς kephalís, kef-al-is'; from G2776; properly, a knob, i.e. (by implication) a roll (by extension from the end of a stick on which the manuscript was rolled):—volume.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x

The KJV translates Strong's G2777 in the following manner: volume (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 1x
The KJV translates Strong's G2777 in the following manner: volume (1x).

  1. a little head

  2. the highest part, extremity of anything

    1. as the capital of a column

    2. the tips or knobs of the wooden rod around which parchments were rolled were called by this word, because they resembled little heads

  3. the Alexandrian writers transferred the name to the roll or volume itself

    1. in the roll of the book

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
κεφαλίς kephalís, kef-al-is'; from G2776; properly, a knob, i.e. (by implication) a roll (by extension from the end of a stick on which the manuscript was rolled):—volume.
STRONGS G2777:
κεφαλίς, κεφαλίδος, ἡ (diminutive of κεφαλή, formed after the analogy of ἁμαξίς, πινακίς, etc.; cf. Alexander Buttmann (1873) Ausf. Spr. ii., p. 443; Kühner, § 380 Anm. 5, i., p. 708);
1. a little head (Latincapitellum, capitulum).
2. the highest part, extremity or end of anything; as the capital of a column, 1 Kings 7:9, 31 etc.; Geoponica 14, 6, 6; hence, the tips or knobs (theumbilici of the Romans (or rather the cornua; see Gardthausen, Griech. Palaeogr., p. 52f; Rich, Dictionary, under the word umbilicus)) of the wooden rod around which parchments were rolled seem to have been called κεφαλίδες, because they resembled little heads; so that
3. the Alexandrian writers transferred the name κεφαλίς to the roll or volume itself: ἐν κεφαλίδι βίβλου, Hebrews 10:7 (from the Sept. of Psalm 39:8 (Ps. 40:8) for בִּמְגִלַּת־סֵפֶר, as in Ezekiel 2:9, and without βιβλίου, Ezekiel 3:1-3; 2 Esdr. 6:2 (cf. Birt, Antikes Buchwesen (Berl. 1882), p. 116)), Itala:in volumine libri, in the roll of the book (cf. Winer's Grammar, 23 (22)). The different opinions are noticed by Bleek at the passage.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

1 Kings
7:9; 7:31
Psalms
39:8; 40:8
Ezekiel
2; 2:9; 3:1; 3:2; 3:3
Hebrews
10:7

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2777 matches the Greek κεφαλίς (kephalis),
which occurs 24 times in 20 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:24 - And it shall be equal below, they shall be equal toward the same part from the heads to one joining; so shalt thou make to both the two corners, let them be equal.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:32

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:32 - And thou shalt set it upon four posts of incorruptible wood overlaid with gold; and their tops shall be gold, and their four sockets shall be of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:37

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 26:37 - And thou shalt make for the veil five posts, and thou shalt gild them with gold; and their chapiters shall be gold; and thou shalt cast for them five brazen sockets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 27:17 - All the pillars of the court round about overlaid with silver, and their chapiters silver and their brass sockets.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:34 - (LXX 38:18) He overlaid the posts with silver, and cast for [fn]each post golden rings, and gilded the bars with gold; and he gilded the posts of the veil with gold, and made the hooks of gold. (38:19) He made also the rings of the tabernacle of gold; and the rings of the court, and the rings for drawing out the veil above of brass. (38:20) He cast the silver chapiters of the tabernacle, and the brazen chapiters of the door of the tabernacle, and the gate of the court; and he made silver hooks for the posts, he overlaid them with silver on the posts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:36

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:36 - (LXX 37:4) And they put it on four posts of incorruptible wood overlaid with gold; and their chapiters were gold, and their four sockets were silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:38

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 36:38 - (LXX 37:6) and their posts five, and the rings; and they gilded their chapiters and their clasps with gold, and they had five sockets of brass.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:17 - (LXX 37:15) And the sockets of their pillars of brass, and their hooks of silver, and their chapiters overlaid with silver, and all the posts of the court overlaid with silver:

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:19 - (LXX 37:17) and their pillars four, and their sockets four of brass, and their hooks of silver, and their chapiters overlaid with silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:27 - (LXX 39:4) And the hundred talents of silver went to the casting of the hundred chapiters of the tabernacle, and to the chapiters of the veil;

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 38:28 - (LXX 39:5) a hundred chapiters to the hundred talents, a talent to a chapiter.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 40:18 - And Moses set up the tabernacle, and put on the chapiters, and put the bars into their places, and set up the posts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:36 - The oversight of the charge of the sons of Merari included the chapiters of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and all their furniture, and their works,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:31 - And these are the charges of the things borne by them according to all their works in the tabernacle of witness: they shall bear the chapiters of the tabernacle, and the bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and the veil, and there shall be their sockets, and their pillars, and the curtain of the door of the tabernacle.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 6:2 - And there was found in the city, in the palace, a volume, and this was the record written in it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:7

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 40:7 - (LXX 39:8) Then I said, Behold, I [fn]come: in the volume of the book it is written concerning me,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:9

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 2:9 - And I looked, and behold, a hand stretched out to me, and in it a volume of a book.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:1 - And he said to me, Son of man, eat this volume, and go and speak to the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:2

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:2 - So he opened my mouth, and caused me to eat the volume. And he said to me, Son of man,

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:3

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 3:3 - thy mouth shall eat, and thy belly shall be filled with this volume that is given to thee. So I ate it; and it was in my mouth as sweet honey.
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