noun · feminine
perikefalaias
Strong’sG4030
a helmet
stem perikefalai-2 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books1 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.
† περι-κεφαλαία, -ας, ἡ,
[in LXX for כּוֹבַע, קוֹבַע;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G4030 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
round the head: hence,
II substantive περικεφαλαία, ἡ, covering for the head, helmet, cap, Refs 5th c.BC+; π. σιδηρᾶ περιηργυρωμένη Refs 3rd c.BC+
II.b wig, Refs 5th c.AD+
II.2 disorder of the oak, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.3 in a ship, ={ὁ στόλος ὑπὲρ τὴν στεῖραν}, Refs 4th c.BC+
II.4 name of a bandage, Refs 2nd c.AD+
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 | perikefalaias | perikefalaiais |
| object accusative | perikefalaian2×περικεφαλαίαν | perikefalaiain |
| direct address vocative | perikefalaiar | perikefalaiair |
| of, belonging to genitive | perikefalaiau | perikefalaiaiu |
| to, for dative | perikefalaia | perikefalaiai |
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
perikefalaia 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
perikefalaian“helmet”objectaccusative singular2×
Ephesians 6:17kai tan perikefalaian teu sōtērieu dechevar, kai tan machairan …And take the helmet of salvation and the sword of …
1 Thessalonians 5:8… enduerantois thōrakon pistiau kai agapau kai perikefalaian elpidan sōtērēau;… of faith and love, and the helmet of our hope of salvation.