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"CEPHAS" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a rock", "a rock or stone". |
Date "CEPHAS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Bible | Cephas a Syriac surname given by Christ to Simon (John 1:42), meaning "rock." The Greeks translated it by Petros, and the Latins by Petrus. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: CEPHAS |
| Non-English Usage: "CEPHAS" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Latin (onion). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Field sketch of signal pole on tree stump Sketch by Cephas Sinclair. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
| The following table summarizes the usage of "CEPHAS" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Cephas | Last name | 1,000 | 12,874 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "CEPHAS" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "a rock", "a rock or stone". | |||
| The following table summarizes names related to "CEPHAS." | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Related Name |
| Cephas | N/A | Biblical | N/A |
| Cephas | Male | Biblical | N/A |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cephas | 12 |
cephas maryland | 6 |
cephas wiggins | 3 |
cephas ministry | 3 |
bible cephas dictionary | 2 |
john cephas | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Date | Source | John Chapter 1, Verse 42 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai hgagen auton proV ton ihsoun embleyaV de autw o ihsouV eipen su ei simwn o uioV iwna su klhqhsh khfaV o ermhneuetai petroV |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et adduxit eum ad Iesum intuitus autem eum Iesus dixit tu es Simon filius Iohanna tu vocaberis Cephas quod interpretatur Petrus |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & hyo ledden hyne to þam halende. Þa be-heold se halend hyne & cwæð. Ðueart symon iohannes sunu. þu beost ge-nemnedcephas. þæt ys ge-reht petrus. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And Jhesus bihelde hym, and seide, Thou art Symount, the sone of Johanna; thou schalt be clepid Cefas, that is to seie, Petre. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And brought him to Iesus. And Iesus behelde him and sayde: thou arte Simon the sonne of Ionas thou shalt be called Cephas: which is by interpretacion a stone. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas, which is by interpretation, A stone. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And he brought him to Jesus. And when Jesus beheld him, he said, Thou art Simon the son of Jona: thou shalt be called Cephas; which is, by interpretation, a stone. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And he took him to Jesus. Looking at him fixedly Jesus said, You are Simon, the son of John; your name will be Cephas (which is to say, Peter). |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | John Chapter 1, Verse 42 |
| Croatian | Dovede ga Isusu, a Isus ga pogleda i reèe: "Ti si imun, sin Ivanov! Zvat æeš se Kefa!" - što znaèi "Petar - Stijena". |
| Finnish | Ja hän vei hänet Jeesuksen tykö. Jeesus kiinnitti katseensa häneen ja sanoi: "Sinä olet Simon, Johanneksen poika; sinun nimesi on oleva Keefas", joka käännettynä on Pietari. |
| Maori | Na ka arahina mai ia e ia ki a Ihu. A ka titiro a Ihu ki a ia, ka mea, Ko Haimona koe, ko te tama a Hona: me hua koe ko Kipa: tona whakamaoritanga ko Pita, ara ko Kohatu. |
| Shuar | Nuyá Antres ni yachi Semunkan Jesus pujamunam jukimiayi. Jesussha Wáiniak Tímiayi "Ametme Semun, Junasa Uchirí. Túrasha Sépas átatme." Sépaska Israer-shuar chichamnum kaya tawai. Tura Kriaku chichamnum nuka Pítruiti. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: chapes, cheaps. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-p-s" | |
-1 letter: aches, capes, caphs, chape, chaps, chase, cheap, ephas, heaps, paces, peach, pechs, phase, scape, shape, space. | |
-2 letters: aces, ache, apes, apse, cape, caph, caps, case, cash, ceps, chap, each, epha, haes, haps, hasp, heap, pace, pacs, pase, pash, peas, pech, pecs, pehs, shea, spae, spec. | |
-3 letters: ace, ape, ash, asp, cap, cep, hae. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-p-s" | |
+1 letter: apaches, chapels, cheapos, eparchs, hepcats, parches, patches, peaches, pechans, poaches, schappe, shoepac. | |
+2 letters: acalephs, aspheric, capuches, champers, chapeaus, chaplets, chapters, cheapens, cheapest, cheapies, cheapish, despatch, hepatics, painches, panaches, panoches, parchesi, pastiche, patchers, paunches, peachers, pistache, planches, pleaches, poachers, preaches, precrash, purchase, scarphed, schappes, scyphate, seraphic, shoepack, shoepacs. | |
+3 letters: acalephes, apotheces, cachepots, cadetship, camphenes, camphines, camphires, canephors, capouches, cathepsin, cenotaphs, cephalins, chapaties, chaperons, chapiters, chassepot, cheapness, chickpeas, copperahs, deathcups, eparchies, headspace, hepaticas, heptarchs, impeaches, packhorse, panchaxes, parchesis, pastiches, patchiest, paychecks, peachiest, penchants, pentarchs, pistaches, planchets, poachiest, potlaches, preachers, purchased, purchaser, purchases, repatches, scrapheap, sharecrop, shoepacks, showplace, spaceship, spherical, spinaches, spleuchan, upreaches, whitecaps. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 45 50 48 41 53 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. . .--. .... .- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01000101 01010000 01001000 01000001 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C E P H A S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0045 0050 0048 0041 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)373950423553 |
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