Greek proper noun (a person) · G2786
Κηφᾶς
Kephaskay-fas'
Cephas
9 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Kēphâs
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G2786is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 27New Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G2786
the Rock; Cephas (i.e. Kepha), a surname of Peter
The King James renders it: Cephas.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Kephas is rendered "Cephas". It stands 9 times in the Greek text, across three books.
- Four of the uses stand in 1 Corinthians, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.John 1:42Andrew brought him to Jesus, who looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated as Peter).
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Andrew brought him to Jesus, who looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated as Peter).
John 1:42Κηφᾶς
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Four of the word's nine uses are in 1 Corinthians.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Cephas5
- of Cephas1
- Peter1
- to Cephas1
- to Peter1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- Κηφᾶς5
- Κηφᾷ2
- Κηφᾶ1
- Κηφᾶν1
The grammar of each form
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular5N-NSM-P
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singular2N-DSM-P
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular1N-ASM-P
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular1N-GSM-P
John
one use
Andrew brought him to Jesus, who looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which is translated as Peter).
- Κηφᾶςkephasnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Cephas
1 Corinthians
four uses
What I mean is this: Individuals among you are saying, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”
- Κηφᾶkephanoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: of Cephas
whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,
- Κηφᾶςkephasnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Cephas
Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?
- Κηφᾶςkephasnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Cephas
and that He appeared to Cephas and then to the Twelve.
- Κηφᾷkephanoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: to Cephas
Galatians
four uses
Only after three years did I go up to Jerusalem to confer with Cephas, and I stayed with him fifteen days.
- Κηφᾶνkephannoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: Cephas
And recognizing the grace that I had been given, James, Cephas, and John—those reputed to be pillars—gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised.
- Κηφᾶςkephasnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Cephas
When Cephas came to Antioch, however, I opposed him to his face, because he stood to be condemned.
- Κηφᾶςkephasnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: Peter
When I saw that they were not walking in line with the truth of the gospel, I said to Cephas in front of them all, “If you, who are a Jew, live like a Gentile and not like a Jew, how can you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews?”
- Κηφᾷkephanoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine singulartagged: to Peter
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.