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Κηφᾶς

Kēphâs · G2786 · Greek · 9 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. Cephas meaning Rock

    The Aramaic equivalent of the Greek name Πέτρος ‘Peter’

    Examples

    John 1:42 He brought him to Jesus. Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon the son of John; you shall be called Cephas” (which is translated Peter).

    1 Corinthians 1:12 Now I mean this, that each one of you is saying, “I am with Paul,” or “I am with Apollos,” or “I am with Cephas,” or “I am with Christ.”

    1 Corinthians 3:22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas, or the world or life or death, or things present or things to come; all things belong to you,

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

It is given or told toIndirect object

2 occurrences in 2 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

2 occurrences in 2 groups

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
Cephas meaning Rock93.211
Κηφᾶς is the Aramaic surname meaning Rock given to Simon Peter. John 1:42 records Jesus looking at Simon and declaring, “you shall be called Cephas” (which is translated Peter), bestowing this Aramaic name at their first meeting.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon κεφα (Buttmann, 20 (18)), ὁ (Chaldean כֵּיפָא, a rock), Cephas (equivalent to Πέτρος (cf.…
κεφα (Buttmann, 20 (18)), ὁ (Chaldean כֵּיפָא, a rock), Cephas (equivalent to Πέτρος (cf. B. D. (American edition), p. 2459)), the surname of Simon the apostle: Jn 1:42 (43); 1 Cor 1:12; 1 Cor 3:22; 1 Cor 9:5; 1 Cor 15:5; Gal 2:9; and L T Tr WH also in Gal 1:18; Gal 2:11, Gal 2:14.

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Persons9 occurrences

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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