- Transliteration: Kephalis

- Phonetic: kef-al-is'

- Definition:

1. a little head

2. the highest part, extremity of anything

a. as the capital of a column

b. 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

a. in the roll of the book

- Origin: from G2776" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2776

- TDNT entry: None

- Part(s) of speech: Noun Feminine

- Strong's: From G2776" class="dictionary-topic-link">G2776; properly a knob that is (by implication) a roll (by extension from the end of a stick on which the manuscript was rolled): - volume.