Definition

to decapitate

Etymology

from G575 (ἀπό) and G2776 (κεφαλή);

Word family

• ἀπό apó
• κεφαλή kephalḗ

How the KJV renders it

• behead

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Greek term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.