Strong's #2786: Kephas (pronounced kay-fas')

of Chaldee origin (compare 3710); the Rock; Cephas (i.e. Kepha), a surname of Peter:--Cephas.

Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

͂

Kēphas

Cephas = "stone"

1) another name for the apostle Peter

Part of Speech: noun proper masculine

Usage:

This word is used 6 times:

 

John 1:42: "of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone."
1 Corinthians 1:12: "I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ."
1 Corinthians 3:22: "or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life,"
1 Corinthians 9:5: "brethren of the Lord, and Cephas?"
1 Corinthians 15:5: "And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:"
Galatians 2:9: "And when James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be"