Person
Caiaphas
Kaiaphas
Καϊάφας
High priest at Yahshua’s trial.
Related
Caiaphas is high priest the year Yahshua dies. He speaks that one man should die for the people.
Strong’s
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Καϊάφας G2533
Kaïáphas
the dell; Caiaphas (i.e. Cajepha), an Israelite
Thayer’s
Joseph Henry Thayer, Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889). Public-domain digital text.
Καϊάφας G2533
Kaïáphas
Καϊάφας (WH Καϊάφας; (cf. Iota, at the end); Lachmann in Luk 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 Pro 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, A.D. 18 (cf. Schürer, N. T. Zeitgesch. § 23 iv.), and was removed A.D. 36 by Vitellius, governor of Syria, who appointed Jonathan, son of the high priest Ananus (i. e. Annas, father-in-law of Caiaphas, Joh 18:13), his successor (Josephus, Antiquities 18, 4, 3): Mat 26:3; Mat 26:57; Luk 3:2; Joh 11:49; John 18:13f, 24, 28; Act 4:6. Cf. Hausrath, in Schenkel iii. 463f.
STRONGS NT 2533: Καιφας [Καιφας, see Καϊάφας.]