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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 ἔσται ἐξ ἴσου κάτωθεν. κατὰ τὸ αὐτὸ ἔσονται ἴσοι ἐκ τῶν κεφαλῶν εἰσ σύμβλησιν μίαν. οὕτω ποιήσεισ ἀμφοτέραισ ταῖσ δυσὶ γωνίαισ. ἴσαι ἔστωσαν. (Septuagint, Liber Exodus 26:24)
  • καὶ εἶδε Γαὰλ υἱὸσ Ἰωβὴλ τὸν λαὸν καὶ εἶπε πρὸσ Ζεβούλ. ἰδοὺ λαὸσ καταβαίνει ἀπὸ τῶν κεφαλῶν τῶν ὀρέων. καὶ εἶπε πρὸσ αὐτὸν Ζεβούλ. τὴν σκιὰν τῶν ὀρέων σὺ βλέπεισ ὡσ ἄνδρασ. (Septuagint, Liber Iudicum 9:36)
  • καὶ ἐπὶ τῶν κεφαλῶν τῶν στύλων ἔργον κρίνου κατὰ τὸ αἰλὰμ τεσσάρων πηχῶν. (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 7:8)
  • στύλουσ δύο καὶ τὰ στρεπτὰ τῶν στύλων ἐπὶ τῶν κεφαλῶν τῶν στύλων δύο καὶ τὰ δίκτυα δύο τοῦ καλύπτειν ἀμφότερα τὰ στρεπτὰ τῶν γλυφῶν τὰ ὄντα ἐπὶ τῶν στύλων, (Septuagint, Liber I Regum 7:27)
  • καὶ ἐποίησε σερσερὼθ ἐν τῷ δαβὶρ καὶ ἔδωκεν ἐπὶ τῶν κεφαλῶν τῶν στύλων. καὶ ἐποίησε ροί̈σκουσ ἑκατὸν καὶ ἐποίησε ροί̈σκουσ ἐπὶ τῶν χαλαστῶν. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 3:15)

Synonyms

  1. head

  2. a person's life

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