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May 21, 2002 15:32
21 yrs ago
Hebrew term

cephas

Non-PRO Hebrew to English Art/Literary Poetry & Literature
found in literature
Proposed translations (English)
4 +1 Boundaries between literature and life are blurred...
4 Peter
3 cephas
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Proposed translations

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Boundaries between literature and life are blurred...

As usual: Context?
Language pair?

e.g.:

John Cephas was born ...
www.io.com/~tbone1/blues/bios/cepwig.html

Cephas is a community of people caring for those imprisoned
and on parole.
bfn.org/~cpm/
etc. etc.
Peer comment(s):

agree Nancy Cepeda
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cephas

As far as I know this is from the Bible. It must be the name given to Simon, meaning 'rock'.

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http://www.christiananswers.net/dictionary/cephas.html

Here it is said that it is a Syriac surname given by Christ to Simon.
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Peter

If it's found in the Bible it means Peter since Peter is the Greek version of Cephas (Aramaic word for rock). Cephas was - as already mentioned - a name given to the apostle Simon by Jesus because he was to be the rock upon which the Christian church was to be built.

New Testament, John, Chapter 1:

1:42 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.

See also the links below.

Hope this helps you :o)

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