Καϊάφας
Ancient Greek
Etymology
From Biblical Hebrew קיפא.
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ka.i.ǎː.pʰaːs/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ka.iˈa.pʰas/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ka.iˈa.ɸas/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ka.iˈa.fas/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ka.iˈa.fas/
Proper noun
Καϊᾱ́φᾱς • (Kaïā́phās) m (genitive Καϊᾱ́φᾱ); first declension
- Caiaphas, Kaiaphas (English variants of the same name), the name of the Jewish high priest to whom Jesus was taken after his capture in Gethsemane.
Inflection
References
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- G2533 in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
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