{"def":{"short":"properly, a knob, i.e., (by implication) a roll (by extension from the end of a stick on which the manuscript was rolled)","long":["a little head","the highest part, extremity of anything",["as the capital of a column","the tips or knobs of the wooden rod around which parchments were rolled were called by this word, because they resembled little heads"],"the Alexandrian writers transferred the name to the roll or volume itself",["in the roll of the book"]]},"deriv":"from G2776","pronun":{"ipa":"kɛ.fɑˈlis","ipa_mod":"ce̞.fɑˈlis","sbl":"kephalis","dic":"keh-fa-LEES","dic_mod":"kay-fa-LEES"},"see":["G2776"]}