Lexical Summary Kaiaphas: Caiaphas, an Israelite high priest Original Word: ΚαϊάφαςTransliteration: Kaiaphas Phonetic Spelling: (kah-ee-af'-as) Part of Speech: Noun, Masculine Short Definition: Caiaphas, an Israelite high priest Meaning: Caiaphas -- an Israelite high priest Strong's Concordance Caiaphas. Of Chaldee origin; the dell; Caiaphas (i.e. Cajepha), an Israelite -- Caiaphas. Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 2533: ΚαϊάφαςΚαϊάφας (WH Καϊάφας; (cf. Iota, at the end); Lachmann in Luke 3:2 Καιφας), Καϊάφα (Buttmann, 20 (18); Winer's Grammar, § 8, 1), ὁ (supposed by many to be the same as כֵּפָא, a stone, a rock; others more correctly equivalent to כָּיְפָא, depression, Targ. on Proverbs 16:26 (according to Delitzsch (Brief and. Röm. ins Hebrew etc., p. 28) קַיָפָא)), Caiaphas; according to Josephus (Antiquities 18, 2, 2) Ιωσηπος, ὁ καί Καϊάφας (Ιωσηπον, τόν καί Καϊάφαν ἐπικαλούμενον, Antiquities 18, 4, 3), high priest of the Jews. He was appointed to that office by Valerius Gratus, governor of Judaea, after the removal of Simon, son of Camith, STRONGS NT 2533: Καιφας [Καιφας, see Καϊάφας.] |
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