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Caiaphas
KEYE-uh-fuhs
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A Jewish high priest in the first century CE, described in the New Testament as involved in the trial of Jesus.
"Caiaphas appears in the Gospel accounts of the trial before Pilate."
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Etymology
Via Latin and Greek from Hebrew קַיָפָא (qayafa).