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Kēphas G2786

Κηφᾶς (Kēphas) means “Cephas” in the TBESG Greek lexicon from STEPBible.

Κηφᾶς Greek · G2786 9 tagged occurrences in 9 verses

Pronunciation guide: kay-fas' Strong’s Greek pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESG · G2786

Κηφᾶς · Kēphas · Cephas

Κηφᾶς, -ᾶ (see Bl., § 10, 3), ὁ (Aram. כֵּיפָא), Cephas, i.e. Peter: Jhn.1:43, 1Co.1:12 3:22 9:5 15:5, Gal.1:18 2:9, 11 2:14.† (AS)

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Dodson Greek Lexicon

Cephas (Aramaic for rock), the new name given to Simon Peter, the apostle.

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How translators render G2786

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BSB rendering counts
Rendering Count
cephas 6
to cephas 2
follow cephas 1
KJV rendering counts
Rendering Count
cephas 3
of cephas 2

Verses containing G2786

Page 1 of 1. 9 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.

  1. John 1:42 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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).

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  2. 1 Corinthians 1:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    What I mean is this: Individuals among you are saying, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”

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  3. 1 Corinthians 3:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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,

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  4. 1 Corinthians 9:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?

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  5. 1 Corinthians 15:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    and that He appeared to Cephas and then to the Twelve.

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  6. Galatians 1:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    Only after three years did I go up to Jerusalem to confer with Cephas, and I stayed with him fifteen days.

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  7. Galatians 2:9 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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.

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  8. Galatians 2:11 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    When Cephas came to Antioch, however, I opposed him to his face, because he stood condemned.

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  9. Galatians 2:14 · BSB · 1 occurrence

    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?”

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Sources and text

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We convert source tables to JSON, expand grammar labels and count tagged words. Greek counts use the SBL edition in TAGNT. Hebrew counts use the main reading in TAHOT, including Qere readings and restored text. Source numbering follows NRSV; alternate references appear where supplied.

Berean Standard Bible translation tables, public domain, Berean Bible. CrossWire KJV 3.1 , public domain text with Bible Foundation and KJV2003 Project tags, licensed for any purpose. Dodson Greek Lexicon , CC0. Strong’s Hebrew dictionary , Open Scriptures transcription, CC BY-SA; converted Hebrew entries retain those terms. Greek pronunciation spellings come from Strong's Greek dictionary, XML edition 1.4 , public domain.

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