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Strong's #2777: kephalis (pronounced kef-al-is')

from 2776; properly, a knob, i.e. (by implication) a roll (by extension from the end of a stick on which the manuscript was rolled):--volume.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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kephalis

1) a little head

2) the highest part, extremity of anything

2a) as the capital of a column

2b) the tips or knobs of the wooden rod around which parchments were rolled were called by this word, because they resembled little heads

3) the Alexandrian writers transferred the name to the roll or volume itself

3a) in the roll of the book

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: from G2776




Usage:

This word is used 1 times:

Hebrews 10:7: "I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to"









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