Quick Definition
a pillow or cushion
Strong's Definition
something for the head, i.e. a cushion
Derivation: neuter of a presumed compound of G4314 (πρός) and G2776 (κεφαλή);
KJV Usage: pillow
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
προσκεφάλαιον, προσκεφαλαιου, τό (from πρός (which see IV. 3) and the adjective κεφάλαιος (cf. κεφάλαιον)), a pillow, a cushion: Mar_4:38. (Eze_13:18; Eze_13:20; Aristophanes, Plato, Plutarch, others.)
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
προσκεφάλαιον proskephalaion 1x
pr. a cushion for the head, pillow; also, a boat cushion, Mar_4:38
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
προσ -κεφάλαιον , -ου , τό ,
[in LXX : Eze_13:18 ; Eze_13:20 ( H3704 ), 1Es_3:8 * ;]
a pillow, cushion: Mar_4:38 .†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
προσκεφάλαιον [page 548]
pillow, cushion ( Mar_4:38 : cf. P Eleph 5 .6 (B.C. 284 3) στρῶμα ᾱ , προσκεφάλαια β̄ , P Oxy X. 1277 .23 (A.D. 255) πέπρακα τὸ τρίκλινον καὶ τὰ προσκεφάλαια , I have sold the couch and the cushions, In the Κολακεία of Theophrastus p. 40 .32 f. (ed. Jebb), the flatterer is represented as τοῦ παιδὸς ἐν τῷ θεάτρῳ ἀφελόμενος τὰ προσκεφάλαια αὐτὸς ὑποστρῶσαι , taking the cushions from the slave in the theatre, and spreading them on the seat with his own hands.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
προσκεφάλαιον προσκεφάλαιον, ου, τό, "a cushion for the head, pillow", Ar. , etc.:—then, generally, "any cushion", Theophr.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
προσ-κεφάλαιον, -ου, τό
[in LXX: Eze.13:18, 20 (כֶּסֶת), I Est.3:8 * ;]
a pillow, cushion: Mrk.4:38.†
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