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κεφάλαιος

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α, ον [ᾰ] capital, principal, PLAT. Gorg. 494 e ; AR. Ran. 854.

 Sup. -ότατος, PLAT. (Bkk. p. 104, 6).

Étym. κεφαλή.

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LSJ

α, ον, (< κεφαλή) of the head; metaph, principal, chief, ῥῆμα κ. (with a play on κεφαλίτης λίθος) Ar. Ra. 854; τὸ κ. μέρος PMasp. 151.16 (vi AD); Sup. -ότατος v.l. in Pl. Grg. 494e. mostly Subst. κεφάλαιον, τό, = κεφαλή, head, parts about the head, esp. of fish, θύννου κ. τοδί Callias Com. 3; in pl., Amphis 35, Sotad.Com. 1.5; also κ. ῥαφανῖδος Ar. Nu. 981; of an infant, Leonid. ap. Aët. 6.1.
chief or main point, κ. δὴ παιδείας λέγομεν τὴν ὀρθὴν τροφήν Pl. Lg. 643c; esp. in speaking or writing, sum, gist of the matter, κεφάλαια λόγων Pi. P. 4.116; κ. τοῦ παντὸς λόγου Men. Georg. 75, cf. Cic. Att. 5.18.1; τὰ κ. συγγράφων Εὐριπίδῃ drawing up the heads of the play, Antiph. 113.5; freq. in Prose, Th. 4.50, Pl. Grg. 453a, etc. ; κ. τῶν εἰρημένων Isoc. 3.62, cf. 5.154; κ. τῆς οἰκονομίας Phld. Rh. 1.68 S. (pl.); ἐν κεφαλαίῳ, or ὡς ἐν κ., εἰπεῖν to speak summarily, X. Cyr. 6.3.18, Pl. Smp. 186c, al. ; ἐν κεφαλαίοις ὑπομνῆσαι, ἀποδείξειν, περιλαβεῖν τι, Th. 6.87, Lys. 13.33, Isoc. 2.9; βραχυτάτῳ κ. μαθεῖν Th. 1.36; τύπῳ καὶ ἐπὶ κεφαλαίου (v.l. -αίῳ), opp. ἀκριβέστερον, Arist. EN 1107b14; ἐπὶ κ. Plb. 1.65.5, 3.5.9; ἐπὶ κεφαλαίων D. 19.315, etc. ; esp. in an argument, summing up, ἐν κεφαλαίοις Pl. Ti. 26c; κεφαλαίῳ δέ…, Lat. denique, Decr. ap. D. 18.164; τὸ δ’ οὖν κ. ib. 213; τὸ δὲ κ. τῶν λόγων, ἄνθρωπος εἶ Men. 531.10; συναγαγεῖν τὸ κ.
to sum up, Arist. Metaph. 1042a4. metaph, of persons, the head or chief, ὅ τι περ κ. τῶν κάτωθεν, of Pericles, Eup. 93; τὸ κ. οὐδέπω λογίζομαι, τὸν δεσπότην Men. Pk. 173; ὅ τι περ τὸ κ. Luc. Harm. 3, Gall. 24, Philops. 6; τὰ κ. τῶν μαθημάτων, of philosophers, Id. Pisc. 14; τὸ κ. τοῦ πολέμου App. BC 5.50; οἳ τὸ τῆς στάσεως κ. ἦσαν ib. 43; τὸν Θαλῆν τῶν σοφῶν τὸ κ. Jul. Or. 3.125d; hence, of qualities, etc., σχεδόν τι τὸ κ. τῶν κακῶν (sc. avarice) Apollod. Gel. 4; τὸ κ. τῆς εὐδαιμονίας ἡ διάθεσις Diog.Oen. 57. Rhet., head, topic of argument, D.H. Comp. 1, Rh. 10.5, Str. 1.2.31. of money, capital, opp. interest or income, Pl. Lg. 742c, D. 27.64, etc.
sum total, IG1². 91.23, al., Lys. 19.40, D. 27.10; πολλοῦ κ. for a large sum, Act. Ap. 22.28, cf. Aristeas 24, Plu. Fab. 4, etc. ; κ. ἀργυρικά PRyl. 133.15 (i AD); also σιτικὰ καὶ ἀργυρικὰ κ. PSI 4.281.31 (ii AD).
crown, completion of a thing, τὸ μὲν κ. τῶν ἀδικημάτων the crowning act of wrong, D. 27.7; δύο ταῦτα ὡσπερεὶ κ. ἐφ’ ἅπασι… ἐπέθηκε Id. 21.18.
chapter, section, PGnom. Prooem., Ammon. in Int. 1.17, al., Chor. in Hermes 17.223; distd. from τίτλος, Suid. s. h. v.
Liddell-Scott-Jones, Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1940)

Pape

den Kopf bildend, zum Kopfe gehörig ; ῥῆμα, ein Haupt-, Kapital-, Kernwort, wie ein kopfgroßer Stein, Ar. Ran. 854 ; der superl. κεφαλαιότατον ist B.A. 104.6 aus Plat. Gorg. angeführt.
Pape, Griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (3. Aufl., 1914)

TBESG

κεφάλαιος, -α, -ον
(< κεφαλή), [in LXX (-αιον, τό) for רֹאשׁ, Num_4:2, al. ;]
of the head; metaph., principal, chief; mostly as subst., κεφάλαιον, τό;
__1. the chief point: Heb.8:1.
__2. the sum total, amount: Act.22:28 (other meaning, LS, see word).†
(AS)
Translators Brief lexicon of Extended Strongs for Greek based on Abbot-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922) (=AS), with corrections and adapted by Tyndale Scholars
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