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κεφα^λ-ίς , ίδος, ἡ, Dim. of κεφαλή,
A.little head, “σκορόδου” Luc.DMeretr.14.3; head of a nail, Ath.11.488c; extremity, “τῶν σκυταλίδων” Antyll. ap. Orib.44.23.74.
II. capital of a column, Ph.2.147, Chor.p.118 B.(pl.), PLond. 3.755v6 (iv A.D.), Gp.14.6.6 (pl.): pl., = κρόσσαι, Eust.903.6.
III. toe-cap of a shoe, Arist.Rh.1392a31, cf. Anon.ad loc.; of the foot of a table, Aristeas 68.
IV. rope attached to the bow of a ship, Polyaen. 3.9.38 (pl.).
V. κ. βιβλίου roll, LXX Ez.2.9, Ps.38(39).8, al.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Old Testament, Ezekiel, 2.9
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