Strong's Number 2777

The Linked Word Project
Transliteration:
kephalis {kef-al-is'}
Word Origin:
from 2776
Part of Speech:
noun feminine
Usage in the KJV:
volume 1

Total: 1
Definition:
  1. a little head
  2. the highest part, extremity of anything
    1. as the capital of a column
    2. 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
    1. in the roll of the book
TDNT - Theological Dictionary of the New Testament
TWOT - Theological Word Book of the Old Testament