κεφαλή: Difference between revisions

|txtha=κεφαλῆς, ἡ, the Sept. for רֹאשׁ; the [[head]], [[both]] of men: ),46; κλίνειν [[τήν]] κεφαλήν, ἐπαίρειν [[τήν]] κεφαλήν, [[see]] [[κλίνω]], 1and [[ἐπαίρω]]; on the [[saying]] in [[ἄνθραξ]]. Since the [[loss]] of the [[head]] destroys the [[life]], [[κεφαλή]] is used in phrases relating to [[capital]] and [[extreme]] punishments: so in τό [[αἷμα]] [[ὑμῶν]] [[ἐπί]] [[τήν]] κεφαλὴν [[ὑμῶν]] ([[see]] [[αἷμα]], 2a., p. 15{b}), Passow, [[under]] the [[word]], p. 1717{a}; Pape [[under]] the [[word]], 3; (Liddell and Scott, [[under]] the [[word]], I:3,4). Metaphorically, [[anything]] [[supreme]], [[chief]], [[prominent]]; of persons, [[master]], [[lord]]: τίνος, of a [[husband]] in [[relation]] to his [[wife]], Buttmann, 124 f (109)); of the [[church]], Buttmann, § 143,4c.); τοῦ σώματος τῆς ἐκκλησίας, πάσης ἀρχῆς καί ἐξουσίας, κεφαλῆς γωνίας, the [[corner]]-[[stone]], [[see]] [[γωνία]], a. (From Homer down.))