κεφαλίς
little head
‘little head’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G2777 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Hebrews 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
κεφαλις (kephalís) is a Greek noun most often rendered “little head.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. It clusters heavily in Hebrews, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. A true hapax — its single appearance is Hebrews 10:7. Its lexical range runs to 3 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G2777 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Hebrews 1 verse 100%
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Hebrews 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Volume 1×
- American Standard Version: Roll 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Section 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G2777 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G2777 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G2777 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 3 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a little head
- the highest part, extremity of anything
- the Alexandrian writers transferred the name to the roll or volume itself
Word origin
Derived from κεφαλη (kephalḗ) (G2776) — head.
From G2776 ; properly a knob that is (by implication) a roll (by extension from the end of a stick on which the manuscript was rolled): - volume.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G2777, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word κεφαλις appears 24 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 20 verses in 5 books.
- 24
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 20
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 26:24 κεφαλίς
- Numbers 3:36 κεφαλίς
- Ezra 6:2 κεφαλίς
- Psalms 39:8 κεφαλίς
- Ezekiel 2:9 κεφαλίς
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G2777) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Exodus 26:24 κεφαλίς They shall be double beneath, and in like manner they shall be entire to the top of it to one ring: thus shall it be for them both; they shall be for the two corners.
- Exodus 26:32 κεφαλίς You shall hang it on four pillars of acacia overlaid with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, on four sockets of silver.
- Exodus 26:37 κεφαλίς You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia, and overlay them with gold: their hooks shall be of gold: and you shall cast five sockets of brass for them.
- Exodus 27:17 κεφαλίς All the pillars of the court round about shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass.
- Exodus 37:4 κεφαλίς He made poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold.
- Exodus 37:6 κεφαλίς He made a mercy seat of pure gold. Its length was two and a half cubits, and a cubit and a half its breadth.
- Exodus 37:15 κεφαλίς He made the poles of acacia wood, and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.
- Exodus 37:17 κεφαλίς He made the lampstand of pure gold. He made the lampstand of beaten work. Its base, its shaft, its cups, its buds, and its flowers were of one piece with it.
- Exodus 38:20 κεφαλίς All the pins of the tent, and around the court, were of brass.
- Exodus 39:4 κεφαλίς They made shoulder-pieces for it, joined together. At the two ends it was joined together.
- Exodus 39:5 κεφαλίς The skillfully woven band that was on it, with which to fasten it on, was of the same piece, like its work; of gold, of blue, purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen; as Yahweh commanded Moses.
- Exodus 40:18 κεφαλίς Moses raised up the tent, and laid its sockets, and set up the boards of it, and put in the bars of it, and raised up its pillars.
- Numbers 3:36 κεφαλίς The appointed charge of the sons of Merari shall be the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets, all its instruments, all its service,
- Numbers 4:31 κεφαλίς This is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle's boards, its bars, its pillars, its sockets,
- Ezra 6:2 κεφαλίς There was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of Media, a scroll, and therein was thus written for a record:
- Psalms 39:8 κεφαλίς Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don't make me the reproach of the foolish.
- Ezekiel 2:9 κεφαλίς When I looked, behold, a hand was put forth to me; and, behold, a scroll of a book was therein;
- Ezekiel 3:1 κεφαλίς He said to me, Son of man, eat that which you find; eat this scroll, and go, speak to the house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 3:2 κεφαλίς So I opened my mouth, and he caused me to eat the scroll.
- Ezekiel 3:3 κεφαλίς He said to me, Son of man, cause your belly to eat, and fill your bowels with this scroll that I give you. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G2777) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
