kefalaiem

Strong’sG2774

the chief matter, a sum of money

stem kefalai-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books2 of 6 forms occur

What it means

What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.

κεφάλαιος, -α, -ον

(< κεφαλή), [in LXX (-αιον, τό) for רֹאשׁ, Nu 4:2, al.;]

of the head; metaph., principal, chief; mostly as subst., κεφάλαιον, τό;

1. the chief point: He 8:1.

2. the sum total, amount: Ac 22:28 (other meaning, LS, s.v.).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2774 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidkef-al'-ah-yon

a principal thing, i.e. main point; specially, an amount (of money)

Fromneuter of a derivative of G2776;

King Jamessum.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in

κεφάλαι-ος [ᾰ], α, ον,
(κεφαλή) of the head: metaphorically, principal, chief, ῥῆμα κ. (with a play on κεφαλίτης λίθος) Refs 5th c.BC+: superlative -ότατος variant in Refs 5th c.BC+
II mostly substantive κεφάλαιον, τό, ={κεφαλή}, head, parts about the head, especially of fish, θύννου κ. τοδί Callias Comedy texts Refs 5th c.BC+; of an infant, Refs 1st c.AD+
II.2 chief or main point, κ. δὴ παιδείας λέγομεν τὴν ὀρθὴν τροφήν Refs 5th c.BC+; especially in speaking or writing, sum, gist of the matter, κεφάλαια λόγων Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ κ. συγγράφων Εὐριπίδῃ drawing up the heads of the play, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν κεφαλαίῳ, or ὡς ἐν κ., εἰπεῖν to speak summarily, Refs 5th c.BC+; ἐν κεφαλαίοις ὑπομνῆσαι, ἀποδείξειν, περιλαβεῖν τι, Refs 5th c.BC+; τύπῳ καὶ ἐπὶ κεφαλαίου (variant -αίῳ), opposed to ἀκριβέστερον, Refs 4th c.BC+; especially in an argument, summing up, ἐν κεφαλαίοις Refs 5th c.BC+; κεφαλαίῳ δέ.., Latin denique, Decrees cited in Refs 4th c.BC+; συναγαγεῖν τὸ κ. to sum up, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.3 metaphorically, of persons, the head or chief, ὅ τι περ κ. τῶν κάτωθεν, of Pericles, Refs 5th c.BC+; τὰ κ. τῶν μαθημάτων, of philosophers, Refs 2nd c.AD+; οἳ τὸ τῆς στάσεως κ. ἦσανRefs 2nd c.AD+
II.4 Rhet., head, topic of argument, Refs 1st c.BC+
II.5 of money, capital, opposed to interest or income, Refs 5th c.BC+
II.5.b sum total, Refs 5th c.BC+; πολλοῦ κ. for a large sum, NT+1st c.AD+; also σιτικὰ καὶ ἀργυρικὰ κ. Refs 2nd c.AD+
II.6 crown, completion of a thing, τὸ μὲν κ. τῶν ἀδικημάτων the crowning act of wrong, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.7 chapter, section, PGnom.Prooem., Refs 5th c.AD+; distinguished from τίτλος, Refs

H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.

Translated as

Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.

main point1×sum of money1×

Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.

Biblang forms

Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject or object direct	kefalaiem1×Κεφάλαιον	kefalaieim
of, belonging to genitive	kefalaieu1×κεφαλαίου	kefalaieiu
to, for dative	kefalaie	kefalaiei

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

kefalaistem+egender+mu—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

kefalaie is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

2 occurrences, every one of them listed

kefalaiem“main point”subject or objectdirect singular1×

Hebrews 8:1“main point”Kefalaiem de epi tei legorōntei, toiouton echanō …The point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high …

kefalaieu“sum of money”of, belonging togenitive singular1×

Acts 22:28“sum of money”apokrinita de tos chiliarchos; Mis polleu kefalaieu tan politeian houtan ktema. tos de …… for my citizenship,” said the commander. “But I was born …