κεφαλαι-όω G2775
To strike on the head; to beat or wound someone's head
This verb means to strike someone on the head, with classical uses also including 'to sum up' (bringing under one heading). Mark 12:4 uses it in the parable of the wicked tenants, where a servant is struck on the head by those rejecting the landowner's authority. The Spanish 'hirieron en la cabeza' makes the anatomical target explicit. This violent detail emphasizes escalating rebellion against legitimate authority.
Senses
1. sense 1 — Describes the act of striking someone on the head, often violently. In Jesus's parable, this beating of the landowner's representative illustrates Israel's intensifying resistance to God's messengers—a violence that will culminate in killing the beloved son, representing humanity's ultimate rejection of divine authority. 1×
AR["شَجّوا-رَأسَهُ"]·ben["তারা-মাথায়-আঘাত-করল"]·DE["schlagen"]·EN["they-struck-on-the-head"]·FR["frapper-à-la-tête"]·heb["הִכַּהוּ־בְּרֹאשׁוֹ"]·HI["सिर-फोड़ा"]·ID["mereka-pukul-kepalanya"]·IT["ekephaliosan"]·jav["sami-natoni-mustakane"]·KO["머리에-상해를-입혔다"]·PT["feriram-na-cabeça"]·RU["ударили-по-голове"]·ES["hirieron-en-la-cabeza"]·SW["walimjeruhi-kichwani"]·TR["başına-vurdular"]·urd["سر-پھوڑا"]
Related Senses
H3808 1. simple negation (not) (4839×)G1722 1. locative: in, within (2442×)H1004b 1. house, dwelling, building (2015×)G3756 1. not (negation particle) (1635×)H4480a 1. source or separation (1198×)H5892b 1. city, town (1093×)G1519 1. direction: into, to, toward (1061×)H3427 1. Qal: to dwell, inhabit (937×)G1537 1. from, out of (source/origin) (886×)H8034 1. Name (designation / identifier) (856×)G3361 1. subjective negation (not) (834×)G1909 1. on, upon (spatial surface) (757×)H0369 1. existential negation: there is not (738×)H5869a 1. in the eyes/sight of (evaluative) (734×)H5650 1. Servant, attendant, subject (723×)H0408 1. prohibitive negation do-not (712×)G2443 1. so that, in order that (purpose/result) (665×)G0575 1. from (649×)G1223 1. through, by means of (582×)H3541 1. thus, so, in this manner (569×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
κεφαλαι-όω, bring under heads, sum up, Refs 5th c.BC+:—middle, Refs 4th c.BC+; κ. τινά characterize generally, Refs 5th c.BC+:—passive, to be summed up, Refs 4th c.BC+; κεφαλαιοῦσθαι ἐννακισχιλίων ἑξακοσίων [σταδίων] to amount in all to.., Refs 1st c.BC+; εἰς δύο ἀρτηρίας ἡ πάντων ἀγγείων κ. σύνοδος is combined in.., Refs 2nd c.AD+; κεφαλαιούσθω διότι.. Refs 5th c.BC+ __II smite on the head, NT