W. E. Vine, Vine’s Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words (n.p.: Marshall Pickering Communications, 1952), 202, 203.

HEAD

KEPHALE (******), besides its natural significance, is used (a) figuratively in Rom. 12:20, of heaping coals of fire on a head (see COALS); in Acts 18:6, "Your blood be upon your own heads," i.e., ‘your bloodguiltiness rest upon your own persons,’ a mode of expression frequent in the O.T., and perhaps here directly connected with Ezek. 3:18, 20; 33:6, 8 ; see also Lev. 20 : 16 ; 2 Sam. 1:16 ; 1 Kings 2:37 ; (b) metaphorically, of the authority or direction of God in relation to Christ, of Christ in relation to believing men, of the husband in relation to the wife, 1 Cor. 11:3; of Christ in relation to the Church, Eph. 1:22; 4:15; 5:23; Col. 1:18; 2:19; of Christ in relation to principalities and powers, Col. 2:10. As to 1 Cor. 11:10, taken in connection with the context, the word "authority" probably stands, by metonymy, for a sign of authority (R.V.), the angels being witnesses of the pre-eminent relationship as established by God in the creation of man as just mentioned, with the spiritual significance regarding the position of Christ in relation to the Church; cp. Eph. 3:10 it is used of Christ as the foundation of the spiritual building set forth by the Temple, with its "corner stone," Matt. 21:42; symbolically also of the Imperial rulers of the Roman power, as seen in the Apocalyptic visions, Rev. 13:1, 3; 17:3, 7, 9.

HEAD (to wound in the)

KEPHALIOO, or KEPHALAIOO ( ********), from kephalion., a diminutive of kephale, usually meant to sum up, to bring under heads; in Mark 12:4 it is used for wounding on the head, the only place where it has this meaning.

[Vines does not contain a reference for "source" or "origin."]

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