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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

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

  • καὶ ἐλυπήθησαν ἐπ̓ αὐτῷ οἱ στρατηγοὶ τῶν ἀλλοφύλων καὶ λέγουσιν αὐτῷ. ἀπόστρεψον τὸν ἄνδρα καὶ ἀποστραφήτω εἰσ τὸν τόπον αὐτοῦ, οὗ κατέστησασ αὐτὸν ἐκεῖ, καὶ μὴ ἐρχέσθω μεθ̓ ἡμῶν εἰσ τὸν πόλεμον καὶ μὴ γινέσθω ἐπίβουλοσ τῆσ παρεμβολῆσ. καὶ ἐν τίνι διαλλαγήσεται οὗτοσ τῷ κυρίῳ αὐτοῦ̣ οὐχὶ ἐν ταῖσ κεφαλαῖσ τῶν ἀνδρῶν ἐκείνων̣ (Septuagint, Liber I Samuelis 29:4)
  • καὶ ἀπὸ Μανασσῆ προσεχώρησαν πρὸσ Δαυὶδ ἐν τῷ ἐλθεῖν τοὺσ ἀλλοφύλουσ ἐπὶ Σαοὺλ εἰσ πόλεμον. καὶ οὐκ ἐβοήθησεν αὐτοῖσ, ὅτι ἐν βουλῇ ἐγένετο παρὰ τῶν στρατηγῶν τῶν ἀλλοφύλων λεγόντων. ἐν ταῖσ κεφαλαῖσ τῶν ἀνδρῶν ἐκείνων ἐπιστρέψει πρὸσ κύριον αὐτοῦ Σαούλ. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 12:20)
  • καὶ κιδάρεισ λινᾶσ ἕξουσιν ἐπὶ ταῖσ κεφαλαῖσ αὐτῶν καὶ περισκελῆ λινᾶ ἕξουσιν ἐπὶ τὰσ ὀσφύασ αὐτῶν καὶ οὐ περιζώσονται βίᾳ. (Septuagint, Prophetia Ezechielis 44:18)
  • ἐπὶ σαρξὶ τέκνων ὁρῶσα σάρκασ τέκνων ἀποκαιομένασ καὶ ἐπὶ χερσὶ χεῖρασ ἀποτεμνομένασ καὶ ἐπὶ κεφαλαῖσ κεφαλὰσ ἀποδειροτομουμένασ καὶ ἐπὶ νεκροῖσ νεκροὺσ πίπτοντασ καὶ πολυάνδριον ὁρῶσα τῶν τέκνων τὸ χορεῖον διὰ τῶν βασάνων, οὐκ ἐδάκρυσασ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 15:20)
  • τί δ’ ἦν ἀναγκαῖον περὶ τῆσ Ἀθηναίων τρυφῆσ, ᾗ τὸ παλαιὸν ἐχρῶντο, λέγειν, ὅτι κρωβύλουσ τε ἀνεπλέκοντο καὶ χρυσοῦσ τέττιγασ εἶχον ἐπὶ ταῖσ κεφαλαῖσ; (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 19 3:2)

Synonyms

  1. head

  2. a person's life

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