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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.

Also from Smith's (1884) +

[Peter]

In the Bible

9

Verses where Cephas is named. Berean Standard Bible (public domain).

  • 1 Corinthians 1:12

    What I mean is this: Individuals among you are saying, “I follow Paul,” “I follow Apollos,” “I follow Cephas,” or “I follow Christ.”

  • 1 Corinthians 3:22

    whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future. All of them belong to you,

  • 1 Corinthians 9:5

    Have we no right to take along a believing wife, as do the other apostles and the Lord’s brothers and Cephas?

  • 1 Corinthians 15:5

    and that He appeared to Cephas and then to the Twelve.

  • Galatians 1:18

    Only after three years did I go up to Jerusalem to confer with Cephas, and I stayed with him fifteen days.

  • Galatians 2:9

    And recognizing the grace that I had been given, James, Cephas, and John—those reputed to be pillars—gave me and Barnabas the right hand of fellowship, so that we should go to the Gentiles, and they to the circumcised.

+3 more verses naming Cephas.

Scripture on Cephas

7

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Entries that reference Cephas

1

Cephas references

5

Sources · Hitchcock's Bible Names (1869) · Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884)

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