2774. kephalaion
Strong's Concordance
kephalaion: of the head, the main point
Original Word: κεφάλαιον, ου, τό
Part of Speech: Noun, Neuter
Transliteration: kephalaion
Phonetic Spelling: (kef-al'-ah-yon)
Definition: of the head, the main point
Usage: (a) the chief matter, the main point, (b) a sum of money.
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
from kephalé
Definition
of the head, the main point
NASB Translation
main point (1), sum of money (1).

Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 2774: κεφάλαιον

κεφάλαιον, κεφαλαίου, τό (neuter of the adjective κεφάλαιος, belonging to the entry);

1. the chief or main point, the principal thing (Vulg.capitulum): Hebrews 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 Leviticus 6:5; Numbers 5:7; Numbers 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.).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
sum.

Neuter of a derivative of kephale; a principal thing, i.e. Main point; specially, an amount (of money) -- sum.

see GREEK kephale

Forms and Transliterations
Κεφαλαιον Κεφάλαιον κεφαλαιου κεφαλαίου Kephalaion Kephálaion kephalaiou kephalaíou
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Englishman's Concordance
Acts 22:28 N-GNS
GRK: Ἐγὼ πολλοῦ κεφαλαίου τὴν πολιτείαν
NAS: with a large sum of money. And Paul
KJV: answered, With a great sum obtained I
INT: I with a great sum the citizenship

Hebrews 8:1 N-NNS
GRK: Κεφάλαιον δὲ ἐπὶ
NAS: Now the main point in what has been said
KJV: the things which we have spoken [this is] the sum: We have
INT: [the] point moreover of

Strong's Greek 2774
2 Occurrences


Κεφάλαιον — 1 Occ.
κεφαλαίου — 1 Occ.









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