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Strong G5028τάφος

grave

Transliteration
taphos
Pronunciation
taf'-os
Morphology
Greek Noun (Masculine)

Definition

Masculine from G2290; a grave (the place of interment): - sepulchre tomb.

Detailed definition

τάφος, -ου, ὁ
(θάντω), [in LXX chiefly for קֶבֶר;]
1. a burial (Hom., al.).

2. a grave, tomb (Res., Hdt., al.): Mat.23:27, 29 27:61, 64 27:66 28:1, Rom.3:13" (LXX).†
(AS)

In the Bible

Strong G5028 appears in 7 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • sepulchre6
  • tomb1

First verses

  1. Matthew 23:27
    Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
  2. Matthew 23:29
    Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
  3. Matthew 27:61
    And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.
  4. Matthew 27:64
    Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
  5. Matthew 27:66
    So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
  6. Matthew 28:1
    In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
  7. Romans 3:13
    Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
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Detailed Greek dictionary
τάφος [ᾰ], ὁ,
(θάπτω)
A funeral-rites, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.619, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 4.547)]; δαινύναι τάφον to give a funeral-feast, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.29, 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 3.309)]; τελέσαι τάφον Ἕκτορι δίῳ to perform the funeral-rites, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 24.660)]; so ὃν πόλις στυγεῖ, σὺ τιμήσεις τάφ; [Refs 5th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Septem contra Thebas” 1051; τάφῳ κτερίζειν 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 203; τάφον τινὸς θέσθαι [prev. author] “OT” 1447; τ. περιστέλλειν νεκροῦ [prev. author] “Aj.” 1170)]; τάφου τυχεῖν obtain the rites of burial, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hecuba” 47; τοιόσδε ὁ τ. ἐγένετο 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 2.47)]: plural of a single funeral, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th-6th c.BC: Plato Philosophus “Respublica” 414a)]; so of cremation, [Refs 1st c.AD+ (Clitarchus Gnomologus 32 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus)]
A.2 the act of performing the funeral-rites, τοῦδε τοῦ τ. φήσεις μετασχεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 534.)]
A.II grave, tomb, [Refs 8th c.BC+ (8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 477, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “I.” 8(7).63, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Persae” 686, “Ch.” 168, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Electra” 1218f, 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 2.136, 5th c.BC: Thucydides Historicus 1.26, etc. (never in 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus))]: plural of a single grave, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Coloneus” 411)]; ὄντες ἐν τάφοις dead and buried, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Eumenides” 767)]; μέγας γ᾽ ὀφθαλμὸς οἱ πατρὸς τάφοι his being dead and buried, [Refs 5th c.BC+ (5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 987:— γῦπες ἔμψυχοι τάφοι 5th c.BC: Gorgias Rhetor et Sophista 5a.)]
A.II.2 ἔμψυχός τις τ. a 'living skeleton', [Refs 2nd c.AD+ (2nd c.AD: Lucianus Sophista “DMort.” 6.2.)]
A.II.3 ={βωμός}, [Refs 4th c.BC+ (4th-3rd c.BC: Duris Epigrammaticus 34 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus)]
A.II.4 [Refs 8th c.BC+ (5th c.AD: Cypria for φόνος, Scholia 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 23.29.)]