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κεφαλή

First declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: κεφαλή κεφαλῆς

Structure: κεφαλ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. head
  2. a person's life (often in the sense of being in danger, similar to the English idiom "head is on the line").
  3. the top-most part
  4. the most important part
  5. (as in Byzantine Greek) a provincial governor

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative κεφαλή κεφαλᾱ́ κεφαλαί
Genitive κεφαλῆς κεφαλαῖν κεφαλῶν
Dative κεφαλῇ κεφαλαῖν κεφαλαῖς
Accusative κεφαλήν κεφαλᾱ́ κεφαλᾱ́ς
Vocative κεφαλή κεφαλᾱ́ κεφαλαί

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • τὸ δὲ ὕδωρ ἠλαττονοῦτο ἕωσ τοῦ δεκάτου μηνόσ. καὶ ἐν τῷ δεκάτῳ μηνί, τῇ πρώτῃ τοῦ μηνόσ, ὤφθησαν αἱ κεφαλαὶ τῶν ὀρέων. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 8:5)
  • καὶ ὑπερεῖχον τὰ ἡγιασμένα, καὶ ἐνεβλέποντο αἱ κεφαλαὶ τῶν ἡγιασμένων ἐκ τῶν ἁγίων εἰσ πρόσωπον τοῦ δαβὶρ καὶ οὐκ ὠπτάνοντο ἔξω. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 8:8)
  • καὶ ὑπερεῖχον οἱ ἀναφορεῖσ, καὶ ἐβλέποντο αἱ κεφαλαὶ τῶν ἀναφορέων ἐκ τῶν ἁγίων εἰσ πρόσωπον τοῦ δαβίρ, οὐκ ἐβλέποντο ἔξω. καὶ ἦσαν ἐκεῖ ἕωσ τῆσ ἡμέρασ ταύτησ. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 5:9)
  • καὶ ἐν τοῖσ οἴκοισ αὐτῶν οἱ ἱερεῖσ διφρεύουσιν, ἔχοντεσ τοὺσ χιτῶνασ διερρωγότασ καὶ τὰσ κεφαλὰσ καὶ τοὺσ πώγωνασ ἐξυρημένουσ, ὧν αἱ κεφαλαὶ ἀκάλυπτοί εἰσιν, (Septuagint, Litterae Ieremiae 1:31)
  • ὀπίσω τούτου ἐθεώρουν καὶ ἰδοὺ θηρίον ἕτερον ὡσεὶ πάρδαλισ, καὶ αὐτῇ πτερὰ τέσσαρα πετεινοῦ ὑπεράνω αὐτῆσ, καὶ τέσσαρεσ κεφαλαὶ τῷ θηρίῳ, καὶ ἐξουσία ἐδόθη αὐτῇ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Danielis 7:6)

Synonyms

  1. head

  2. a person's life

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