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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 ἔχθραν θήσω ἀνὰ μέσον σοῦ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τῆσ γυναικὸσ καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ σπέρματόσ σου καὶ ἀνὰ μέσον τοῦ σπέρματοσ αὐτῆσ. αὐτόσ σου τηρήσει κεφαλήν, καὶ σὺ τηρήσεισ αὐτοῦ πτέρναν. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 3:15)
  • ἔτι τριῶν ἡμερῶν καὶ ἀφελεῖ Φαραὼ τὴν κεφαλήν σου ἀπὸ σοῦ καὶ κρεμάσει σε ἐπὶ ξύλου, καὶ φάγεται τὰ ὄρνεα τοῦ οὐρανοῦ τὰσ σάρκασ σου ἀπὸ σοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 40:19)
  • ἐκτείνασ δὲ Ἰσραὴλ τὴν χεῖρα τὴν δεξιὰν ἐπέβαλεν ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν Ἐφραί̈μ, οὗτοσ δὲ ἦν ὁ νεώτεροσ, καὶ τὴν ἀριστερὰν ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν Μανασσῆ, ἐναλλὰξ τὰσ χεῖρασ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 48:14)
  • ἰδὼν δὲ Ἰωσὴφ ὅτι ἐπέβαλεν ὁ πατὴρ αὐτοῦ τὴν χεῖρα τὴν δεξιὰν αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν Ἐφραί̈μ, βαρὺ αὐτῷ κατεφάνη, καὶ ἀντελάβετο Ἰωσὴφ τῆσ χειρὸσ τοῦ πατρὸσ αὐτοῦ ἀφελεῖν αὐτὴν ἀπὸ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ Ἐφραί̈μ ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλὴν Μανασσῆ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 48:17)

Synonyms

  1. head

  2. a person's life

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