STRONGS G2774:
κεφάλαιον,
κεφαλαίου,
τό (neuter of the adjective
κεφάλαιος, belonging to the entry);
1. the chief or main point, the principal thing (
Vulg.capitulum):
Hebrews 8:1 (cf.
Buttmann, 154 (134)); (frequent so in Greek writings from
Pindar,
Thucydides and
Plato down).
2. "the pecuniary sum total of a reckoning, amount (
Plutarch, Fab. 4); the principal, capital," as distinguished from the interest (
Plato, legg. 5, 742 c.); universally,
a sum of money, sum (
Vulg.summa):
Acts 22:28; so
Leviticus 6:5;
Numbers 5:7;
Numbers 31:26;
Josephus, Antiquities 12, 2, 3;
Artemidorus Daldianus, oneir. 1, 17; see other examples in
Kypke, Observations, ii., p. 116; (Liddell and Scott, under the word, 5 b.).
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