κεφάλαιον
kephálaion · G2774 · Greek · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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main point, summary
A brief statement of the main point of a previously given discourse
ExamplesHebrews 8:1 Now the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,
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some money, price
A sum of money
ExamplesActs 22:28 The commander answered, “I acquired this citizenship for a large sum of money.” And Paul said, “But I was actually born a citizen.”
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πολύςmany 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- רֹאשׁ rôʼsh · H7218 · head, beginning
- Hebrew רֹאשׁ (rosh) is the standard translation equivalent for κεφάλαιον when denoting 'sum' or 'principal amount' (cf. Exod 30:12, Num 31:26,49 for census/sum usage), sharing the semantic extension from 'head' to 'main/chief thing' to 'sum/amount'
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Main point, summary33.12
- κεφάλαιον can denote the chief point of a discourse, the summary matter around which the rest turns. Hebrews 8:1 announces, “Now the main point in what has been said is this: we have such a high priest, who has taken His seat at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens,” using κεφάλαιον to introduce the summarizing climax of the argument.
- Some money, price57.162
- The same noun can also denote a sum of money. Acts 22:28 has the Roman commander stating, “I acquired this citizenship for a large sum of money,” his κεφάλαιον being the actual price he paid for Roman citizenship.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κεφαλαίου, τό (neuter of the adjective κεφάλαιος, belonging to the entry); 1. the chief…
1. the chief or main point, the principal thing (Vulg.capitulum): Heb 8:1 (cf. Buttmann, 154 (134)); (frequent so in Greek writings from Pindar, Thucydides and Plato down).
2. "the pecuniary sum total of a reckoning, amount (Plutarch, Fab. 4); the principal, capital," as distinguished from the interest (Plato, legg. 5, 742 c.); universally, a sum of money, sum (Vulg.summa): Acts 22:28; so Lev 6:5; Num 5:7; Num 31:26; Josephus, Antiquities 12, 2, 3; Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 1, 17; see other examples in Kypke, Observations, ii., p. 116; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, 5 b.).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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