noun · masculine
kēfos
Strong’sG2786
Cephas
stem kēf-9 times in the New Testamentin 3 of 27 books4 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.
Κηφᾶς, -ᾶ (v. Bl., § 10, 3), ὁ (Aram. כֵּיפָא),
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G2786 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidkay-fas'
the Rock; Cephas (i.e. Kepha), a surname of Peter
Fromof Chaldee origin (compare );
King JamesCephas.
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
Cephas, i.e. Peter:
(From Abbott-Smith. LSJ has no entry)
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 | kēfos5×Κηφᾶς | kēfois |
| object accusative | kēfon1×Κηφᾶν | kēfoin |
| direct address vocative | kēfor | kēfoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | kēfou1×Κηφᾶ | kēfoiu |
| to, for dative | kēfo2×Κηφᾷ | kēfoi |
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
kēfo 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.
9 occurrences, every one of them listed
kēfos“Cephas”subjectnominative singular5×
John 1:42… Simōnos tos huios Iōannou, sis kalisi Kēfos hem hermēneuotō Petros.… of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated as Peter).
1 Corinthians 3:22eite Paulos eite Apollos eite Kēfos eite kosmos eite zōas eite thanatos …whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or …
1 Corinthians 9:5… kai tois adelfois tou kuriou kai Kēfos?… apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?
Galatians 2:9… charitan tan dōirantan mi, Iakōbos kai Kēfos kai Iōannos, tois dokarōntois stulois arō, …… that I had been given, James, Cephas, and John — those reputed to be …
Galatians 2:11Hote de erchata Kēfos eis Antiocheian, kata prosōpem auto antistēama, …When Cephas came to Antioch, however, I opposed …
kēfon“Cephas”objectaccusative singular1×
Galatians 1:18… eteim treis anerchama eis Hierosolumeim historara Kēfon, kai epimenama pros auton hēmerain dekapente;… up to Jerusalem to confer with Cephas, and I stayed with him fifteen …
kēfou“Cephas”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
1 Corinthians 1:12… Paulou, Mis de Apollou, Mis de Kēfou, Mis de Christou.… Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”
kēfo“Cephas”to, fordative singular2×
1 Corinthians 15:5kai hoti horita Kēfo, eita toi dōdeka;and that He appeared to Cephas and then to the Twelve.
Galatians 2:14… tan alētheian teu euangelieu, legama to Kēfo emprosthen pantoiu; Ei sis Ioudaios huparcharōntos …… of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If …