◄ 2777. kephalis ►
Strong's Lexicon kephalis: roll, scroll Original Word: κεφαλίς Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine Transliteration: kephalis Pronunciation: kef-al-is' Phonetic Spelling: (kef-al-is') Definition: roll, scroll Meaning: (lit: little head, then: the knob at the end of the wooden core of a roll of papyrus, then) a roll, volume, division (of a book). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Origin dim. of kephalé Definition a little head, a roll NASB Translation scroll (1). Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2777: κεφαλίς 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 () for בִּמְגִלַּת־סֵפֶר, as in Ezekiel 2:9, and without βιβλίου, ; 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. STRONGS NT 2777b: κημόω κημόω, κημῷ: future κημώσω; (κημός a muzzle); to stop the mouth by a muzzle, to muzzle: βοῦν, 1 Corinthians 9:9 T Tr WH marginal reading (Xenophon, r. eq. 5, 3); see φιμόω. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance volume, roll of a book From kephale; properly, a knob, i.e. (by implication) a roll (by extension from the end of a stick on which the manuscript was rolled) -- volume. see GREEK kephale Forms and Transliterations κεκηλίδωσαι κεφαλίδα κεφαλίδας κεφαλιδες κεφαλίδες κεφαλιδι κεφαλίδι κεφαλίδος κεφαλίδων κεφαλίς κεφούροι κεφφουρέ κεφφώρ κημώ kephalidi kephalídi Links Interlinear Greek • Interlinear Hebrew • Strong's Numbers • Englishman's Greek Concordance • Englishman's Hebrew Concordance • Parallel Texts Englishman's Concordance Hebrews 10:7 N-DFS GRK: ἥκω ἐν κεφαλίδι βιβλίου γέγραπται NAS: I HAVE COME (IN THE SCROLL OF THE BOOK KJV: (in the volume of the book INT: I come in [the] scroll of [the] book it is written Strong's Greek 2777 1 Occurrence κεφαλίδι — 1 Occ.