Kephalis means “volume” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H2777 — charcuth (“east”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G2777 κεφαλίς (kephalis) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. kephalis (kef-al-is') n. 1. (properly) a knob 2. (by implication) a roll (by extension from the end of a stick on which the manuscript was rolled) It has 21 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include volume. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
kephalis (kef-al-is') n. 1. (properly) a knob 2. (by implication) a roll (by extension from the end of a stick on which the manuscript was rolled) [from G2776] KJV: volume Root(s): G2776
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Usage: κεφαλίς, -ίδος, ἡ (dimin. of κεφαλή), [in LXX for מְגִלָּה, וָו, etc. ;] __1. a little head. __2. an extremity, capital (of a column). __3. (As in Exo.2:9, Psa.40:8, Est.6:2) a roll: κ. βιβλίου, Heb.10:7 (LXX).† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render kephalis, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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Strong's G2777 (κεφαλίς) appears 24 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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1 indexed usage in New Testament.
Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
20 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And it shall be equal below, they shall be equal toward the same part from the heads to one joining; so shalt thou make to both the two corners, let them be equal.
And thou shalt set it upon four posts of incorruptible wood overlaid with gold; and their tops shall be gold, and their four sockets shall be of silver.
And thou shalt make for the veil five posts, and thou shalt gild them with gold; and their chapiters shall be gold; and thou shalt cast for them five brazen sockets.
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G2777.
And it shall be equal below, they shall be equal toward the same part from the heads to one joining; so shalt thou make to both the two corners, let them be equal.
And thou shalt set it upon four posts of incorruptible wood overlaid with gold; and their tops shall be gold, and their four sockets shall be of silver.
And thou shalt make for the veil five posts, and thou shalt gild them with gold; and their chapiters shall be gold; and thou shalt cast for them five brazen sockets.
All the pillars of the court round about overlaid with silver, and their chapiters silver and their brass sockets.
And they put it on four posts of incorruptible wood overlaid with gold; and their chapiters were gold, and their four sockets were silver.
and their posts five, and the rings; and they gilded their chapiters and their clasps with gold, and they had five sockets of brass.
And the sockets of their pillars of brass, and their hooks of silver, and their chapiters overlaid with silver, and all the posts of the court overlaid with silver:
and their pillars four, and their sockets four of brass, and their hooks of silver, and their chapiters overlaid with silver.
He cast the silver chapiters of the tabernacle, and the brazen chapiters of the door of the tabernacle, and the gate of the court; and he made silver hooks for the posts, he overlaid them with silver on the posts.
And the hundred talents of silver went to the casting of the hundred chapiters of the tabernacle, and to the chapiters of the veil;
a hundred chapiters to the hundred talents, a talent to a chapiter.
And Moses set up the tabernacle, and put on the chapiters, and put the bars into their places, and set up the posts.
The oversight of the charge of the sons of Merari included the chapiters of the tabernacle, and its bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and all their furniture, and their works,
And these are the charges of the things borne by them according to all their works in the tabernacle of witness: they shall bear the chapiters of the tabernacle, and the bars, and its pillars, and its sockets, and the veil, and there shall be their sockets, and their pillars, and the curtain of the door of the tabernacle.
And there was found at Achmetha, in the palace that is in the province of the Medes, a roll, and therein was a record thus written:
Then I said, Behold, I come: In the volume of the book it is written concerning me,
And I looked, and behold, a hand stretched out to me, and in it a volume of a book.
And he said to me, Son of man, eat this volume, and go and speak to the children of Israel.
So he opened my mouth, and caused me to eat the volume. And he said to me, Son of man,
thy mouth shall eat, and thy belly shall be filled with this volume that is given to thee. So I ate it; and it was in my mouth as sweet honey.
Then said I, Lo, I come (in the volume of the book it is written of me,) to do thy will, O God.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G2777, grouped by book.
Kephalis (Strong's G2777) is a Greek word most simply glossed "volume". kephalis (kef-al-is') n. 1. (properly) a knob 2. (by implication) a roll (by extension from the end of a stick on which the manuscript was rolled)
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's G2777 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G2777 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as volume. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 20 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G2777, with linked reader references where each row is available.