noun · feminine
kefalidas
Strong’sG2777
a roll, volume
stem kefalid-once in the New Testament1 of 10 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.
κεφαλίς, -ίδος, ἡ
(dimin. of κεφαλή), [in LXX for מְגִלָּה, וָו, etc.;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2777 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkef-al-is'
properly, a knob, i.e. (by implication) a roll (by extension from the end of a stick on which the manuscript was rolled)
Fromfrom G2776;
King Jamesvolume.
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
diminutive of κεφαλή, little head, σκορόδου Refs 2nd c.AD+; head of a nail, Refs 2nd c.AD+; extremity, τῶν σκυταλίδων Refs 2nd c.AD+
II capital of a column, Refs 5th c.BC+: plural, ={κρόσσαι}, Refs
III toe-cap of a shoe, Refs 4th c.BC+, cf. Anon. (at [prev. work]); of the foot of a table, Refs
IV rope attached to the bow of a ship, Refs 2nd c.AD+
V κ. βιβλίου roll, LXX
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.
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 nominative | kefalidas | kefalidais |
| object accusative | kefalidan | kefalidain |
| direct address vocative | kefalidar | kefalidair |
| of, belonging to genitive | kefalidau | kefalidaiu |
| to, for dative | kefalida1×κεφαλίδι | kefalidai |
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
kefalida 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.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
kefalida“scroll”to, fordative singular1×
Hebrews 10:7tote legama; Idou hēkamō, en kefalida biblieu grafotē peri mu, teu poiara, …… is written about Me in the scroll: I have come to do Your …