Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Caifas comes from Latin, and ultimately from Aramaic.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Latin Caiphas, from Ancient Greek Καϊάφας, from Aramaic ק׳פא.
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Caifas’s family of names
The ring: spellings.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
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