ἄνθρακας ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλήν τινος

σωρ-εύω,

A heap one thing on another,

τι πρός τι Arist.Rh. 1390b18

;

ἐπὶ τοῦ κοσκίνου τὰ τεθλιμμένα Dsc.4.150

;

ἄλλον ἐπ' ἄλλῳ πλοῦτον Luc. Epigr.12.6

;

ἄνθρακας ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλήν τινος LXX Pr.25.22

, Ep.Rom. 12.20;

περὶ τὸ σῶμα λάφυρα Plu.Pel.33

;

νεκρούς D.S.12.62

;

πλοῦτον Id.1.62

, cf. 5.46, Phld.Oec.p.45 J.:—[voice] Pass., Arist.GC 325b22, Plb.16.11.4;

οὐσίας πλῆθος -εύεται Epicur.Fr. 480

.

II heap with something, c. gen.,

αἰγιαλοὶ σεσωρευμένοι τινῶν Plb.16.8.9

: c. dat.,

σ. βωμοὺς λιβάνῳ Hdn.4.8.9

;

αὐχένας στέμμασι AP7.233

(Apollonid.): metaph.,

γυναικάρια σεσωρευμένα ἁμαρτίαις 2 Ep.Ti.3.6

.

-ῆς ⁺ ἡ N 1 97-122-66-80-68=433 Gn 3,15; 8,5; 11,4; 28,11.12

head (of men and anim.) Gn 3,15; id. (metaph.) Dt 28,13; head, leader Jgs^A 10,18; person, oneself

[τινος] Sus^Th 55; top Gn 8,5; capital (of a pillar) 1 Kgs 7,27; band or troop of soldiers (semit.?) Jb 1,17

κατὰ κεφαλήν individually, a head Ex 16,16; τῇ κεφαλῇ a piece Ex 39,3; ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλήν τινος upon one’s res-ponsibility 2 Sm 1,16; κατὰ κεφαλῆς with the head covered Est 6,12; κεφαλὴ γωνίας head of the corner, most im-portant one (of a stone) Ps 117 (118),22; ἄνθρακας πυρὸς σωρεύσεις ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλήν αὐτοῦ you shall heap burning embers on his head, you shall cause him pain (leading to contrition) Prv 25,22; ἀπὸ κεφαλῆς ἕως ποδῶν from head to foot, from top to toe Lv 13,12; ἀπὸ ποδῶν ἕως κεφαλῆς from foot to head, from top to toe Jb 2,7

*Sir 25,15(bis) κεφαλή head-שׁרֹא for שׁרֹא / שׁוֹר poison, venom (no ms evidence), cpr. Jb 20,16

Cf. CERVIN 1989, 85-112; DORIVAL 1994, 96; GRUDEM 1985 38-59; 1990 3-72; MURAOKA 1990b, 28;

SMEND 1906, 229; VAN ROON 1974, 278; WEVERS 1993, 449; WISSEMAN 1988, 377-384; →NIDNTT; TWNT

ἄνθραξ, ακος, ὁ (Thu., Aristoph. et al.) charcoal only in the proverb ἄνθρακας πυρὸς σωρεύειν ἐπὶ τὴν κεφαλήν τινος heap burning embers on someone’s head Ro 12:20, i.e., prob., cause the pers. to blush w. shame and remorse (Pr 25:22). Cp. AWright, Interpreter 16, 1920, 159; ERoberts and FJarrat, ibid. 239; AFryer, ET 36, 1925, 478; SBartstra NThT 23, ’34, 61–68; SMorenz, TLZ 78, ’53, 187–92; KStendahl, HTR 55, ’62, 343–55, esp. 346–48 (Qumran); WKlassen, NTS 9, ’63, 337–50; LRamarosan, Biblica 51, ’70, 230–34.—DELG. M-M.

κεφαλή, ῆς, ἡ (Hom.+) gener. ‘head’.

① the part of the body that contains the brain, head

ⓐ of humans, animals, and transcendent beings. Humans: Mt 5:36 (on swearing by the head s. Athen. 2, 72, 66c; Test12Patr; PGM 4, 1917; cp. Juvenal, Satires 6, 16f); 6:17; 14:8, 11; 26:7; 27:29f; Mk 6:24f, 27f; 14:3; 15:19; Lk 7:46; J 13:9; 19:2; 20:7; 1 Cor 11:4b (JMurphy-O’Connor, CBQ 42, ’80, 485 [lit.] ‘his head’=‘himself’), 5ab, 7, 10; 12:21; Rv 18:19 (cp. Josh 7:6; La 2:10); 1 Cl 37:5; 56:5 (Ps 140:5); B 13:5 (Gen 48:14); Hm 11:20; Papias (3:2 [not g and h]); GJs 2:4; 9:1; AcPl Ha 11, 1.—Animals: B 7:8 (of the scapegoat Lev 16; cp. vs. 21).—In apocal. presentations in connection w. human figures: Rv 1:14; 4:4; 9:7 12:1; 14:14; 19:12; w. animals: 9:7, 17, 19; 12:3 (s. δράκων); 13:1, 3; 17:3, 7, 9 (cp. Ael. Aristid. 50, 50 K.=26 p. 517 D.: ὤφθη τὸ ἕδος [of Asclepius] τρεῖς κεφαλὰς ἔχον. A person sees himself in a dream provided with a plurality of heads Artem. 1, 35 p. 37, 14: δύο ἔχειν κεφαλὰς ἢ τρεῖς. Also the many-headed dog Cerberus of the underworld in Hesiod, Theog. 311 al. as well as Heraclit. Sto. 33 p. 49, 14); Hv 4, 1, 6; 10; of angels Rv 10:1.—The hair(s) of the head (Philo, Leg. ad Gai. 223) Mt 10:30; Lk 7:38, 44 v.l.; 12:7; 21:18; Ac 27:34. τὴν κ. κλίνειν lay down the head to sleep Mt 8:20; Lk 9:58. Sim. J 19:30 (s. Hdb. ad loc.). κινεῖν τὴν κ. (s. κινέω 2a) Mt 27:39; Mk 15:29; 1 Cl 16:16 (Ps 21:8); ἐπαίρειν τὴν κ. (s. ἐπαίρω 1) Lk 21:28; shear the head, i.e. cut the hair as a form of a vow Ac 21:24; cp. 18:18. Of baptism ἔκχεον εἰς τὴν κεφαλὴν τρὶς ὕδωρ D 7:3. Of the anointing of Jesus’ head IEph 17:1. κατὰ κεφαλῆς ἔχειν have (someth.) on the head (s. κατά A 1a) 1 Cor 11:4a; also w. specification of object ἐπὶ w. gen. Rv 14:14; Hv 4, 1, 10; or εἰς 4, 3, 1. ἐπάνω τῆς κ. above his head Mt 27:37. Also πρὸς τῇ κ. J 20:12. (ἀστὴρ) ἔστη ἐπὶ τὴν κ. τοῦ παιδίου GJs 21:3 (cp. Mt 2:9).—Well-known expr. fr. the OT: ἄνθρακας πυρὸς σωρεύειν ἐπὶ τὴν κ. τινος Ro 12:20 (s. ἄνθραξ). A curse-formula: τὸ αἷμα ὑμῶν ἐπὶ τὴν κ. ὑμῶν your blood be on your own heads (s. αἷμα 2a and cp. Demosth., Ep. 4, 10 τ. ἄδικον βλασφημίαν εἰς κεφαλὴν τῷ λέγοντι τρέπουσι; 6, 1; Maximus Tyr. 5, 1d; Aesop, Fab. 206 P.=372 H./313 Ch./222 H-H. ὸ̔ θέλεις σὺ τούτοις ἐπὶ τῇ σῇ κεφαλῇ γένοιτο; Phalaris, Ep. 102 εἰς κεφαλὴν σοί τε καὶ τῷ σῷ γένει)=you are responsible for your own destruction Ac 18:6; cp. GPt 5:17.

ⓑ in imagery οὐκ ἔκλινας τὴν κ. σου ὑπὸ τὴν κραταιὰν χεῖραν you have not bowed your head under the mighty hand (of God) GJs 15:4. Of pers. (Plut., Galba 1054 [4, 3] G. as κ. ἰσχυρῷ σώματι, namely of the Galatian territories) Christ the κ. of the ἐκκλησία thought of as a σῶμα Col 1:18; cp. 2:19 (Artem. 2, 9 p. 92, 25 ἡ κεφαλὴ ὑπερέχει τοῦ παντὸς σώματος; schol. on Nicander, Alexiph. 215 ἡ κεφαλὴ συνέχει πᾶν τὸ σῶμα); Christ and Christians as head and members ITr 11:2. (SBedale, JTS 5, ’54, 211–15; New Docs 3, 45f [lit.]; not ‘source’: JFitzmyer, NTS 35, ’89, 503–11.) S. mng. 2a.

② a being of high status, head, fig. (of Asclepius IG II², 4514, 6; in gnostic speculation: Iren. 1, 5, 3 [Harv. I 45, 13]. ὁ μέγας ἄρχων, ἡ κ. τοῦ κόσμου Hippol., Ref. 7, 23, 3).

ⓐ in the case of living beings, to denote superior rank (cp. Artem. 4, 24 p. 218, 8 ἡ κ. is the symbol of the father; Judg 11:11; 2 Km 22:44) head (Zosimus of Ashkelon [500 A.D.] hails Demosth. as his master: ὦ θεία κεφαλή [Biogr. p. 297]) of the father as head of the family Hs 7, 3; of the husband in relation to his wife 1 Cor 11:3b; Eph 5:23a. Of Christ in relation to the Christian community Eph 4:15; 5:23b. But Christ is the head not only of the body of Christians, but of the universe as a whole: κ. ὑπὲρ πάντα Eph 1:22, and of every cosmic power κ. πάσης ἀρχῆς καὶ ἐξουσίας the head of all might and power Col 2:10. The divine influence on the world results in the series (for the growing distance from God with corresponding results cp. Ps.-Aristot. De Mundo 6, 4): God the κ. of Christ, Christ the κ. of man, the man the κ. of the woman 1 Cor 11:3cab (s. on γυνή 1). JFitzmyer, Int 47, ’93, 52–59.

ⓑ of things the uppermost part, extremity, end, point (Pappus of Alex., mathematician [IV A.D.] in the 8th book [ed. CGerhardt 1871 p. 379 τῇ κεφαλῇ τοῦ κοχλίου=at the point of the screw; Judg 9:25; En 17:2; Jos., Bell. 2, 48, Ant. 3, 146; oft. pap of plots of ground) κ. γωνίας the cornerstone (so M‘Neile, Mt ad loc.; REB ( main) corner-stone, and w. proper omission of the alternative rendering at 1 Pt 2:7 in NEB mg.; the cornerstone thus forms the farthest extension [cp. PFlor 50, 83] of the corner, though JJeremias, Αγγελος I 1925, 65–70, ZNW 29, 1930, 264–80, TW IV 277–79 thinks of it as the capstone above the door; so also OMichel, TW IV 892, V 129 [difft. 151]; KSchelkle, RAC I 233f; RMcKelvey, NTS 8, ’62, 352–59 [lit. 353 n. 1–3]. S. HGressmann, PJ 6, 1910, 38–45; GWhitaker, Exp. 8th ser., 22, 1921, 470ff. For another view s. lit. s.v. ἀκρογωνιαῖος) Mt 21:42; Mk 12:10; Lk 20:17 (on these three pass. s. JDerrett, TU 102, ’68, 180–86); Ac 4:11; 1 Pt 2:7 (Selwyn ad loc.: “extremity and not height is the point connoted”); B 6:4 (all Ps 117:22).—κ.= capital (city) (Appian, Illyr. 19 §54) Ac 16:12 D (but ‘frontier city’ AClark, Acts of the Apostles ’33, 362–65 and JLarsen, CTM 17, ’46, 123–25).—B. 212. Schmidt, Syn. I 361–69. DELG. M-M. EDNT. TW. Sv.