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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 ἀπήντησε τόπῳ καὶ ἐκοιμήθῃ ἐκεῖ. ἔδυ γὰρ ὁ ἥλιοσ. καὶ ἔλαβεν ἀπὸ τῶν λίθων τοῦ τόπου, καὶ ἔθηκε πρὸσ κεφαλῆσ αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐκοιμήθη ἐν τῷ τόπῳ ἐκείνῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 28:11)
  • καὶ ἀνέστη Ἰακὼβ τὸ πρωί̈ καὶ ἔλαβε τὸν λίθον, ὃν ὑπέθηκεν ἐκεῖ πρὸσ κεφαλῆσ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔστησεν αὐτὸν στήλην καὶ ἐπέχεεν ἔλαιον ἐπὶ τὸ ἄκρον αὐτῆσ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 28:18)
  • καὶ εἶδεν ὁ ἀρχισιτοποιόσ, ὅτι ὀρθῶσ συνέκρινε, καὶ εἶπε τῷ Ἰωσήφ. κἀγὼ εἶδον ἐνύπνιον καὶ ᾤμην τρία κανᾶ χονδριτῶν αἴρειν ἐπὶ τῆσ κεφαλῆσ μου. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 40:16)
  • ἐν δὲ κανῷ τῷ ἐπάνω ἀπὸ πάντων τῶν γενῶν, ὧν Φαραὼ ἐσθίει ἔργον σιτοποιοῦ, καὶ τὰ πετεινὰ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ κατήσθιεν αὐτὰ ἀπὸ τοῦ κανοῦ τοῦ ἐπάνω τῆσ κεφαλῆσ μου. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 40:17)
  • 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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