θάπτω
tháptō · G2290 · Greek · 11 occurrences
Meanings
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to bury
To bury a dead person
ExamplesMatthew 8:22 But Jesus said to him, “Follow Me, and let the dead bury their own dead.”
Matthew 14:12 John’s disciples came and took away the body and buried it; and they went and reported to Jesus.
Luke 9:60 But He said to him, “Allow the dead to bury their own dead; but as for you, go and proclaim everywhere the kingdom of God.”
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to take care of a father, to provide for one’s father until his death
(Possibly an idiom, literally: to bury my father) To take care of one’s father until his death
ExamplesMatthew 8:21 And another of the disciples said to Him, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”
Luke 9:59 And He said to another, “Follow Me.” But he said, “Lord, permit me first to go and bury my father.”
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
10 occurrences in 4 groups
- Not stated: they 3
- Not stated (participle) 3
- νεκρόςdead, the dead 2
- Not stated (infinitive) 2
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
6 occurrences in 4 groups
- νεκρόςdead, the dead 2
- πατήρfather 2
- ἀνήρman, husband 1
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πρόςto, toward, with+ ἀνήρman, husband 1
What is done to itIt is the object
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἐπιτρέπωto allow, to let, to permit 2
- ἀφίημιto leave, to forgive, to let 2
- παραδίδωμιto hand over, to betray 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- πούςfoot 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- קָבַר qâbar · H6912 · to bury, to be buried > to be killed by death
- קָבַר (qâbar, H6912) is the standard Hebrew verb for burial, directly rendering the Greek θάπτω's core sense of interring the dead, consistently across both Testaments.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- To take care of a father, to provide for one’s father until his death35.46
- In Matthew 8:21, a disciple asks Jesus, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father,” a request Jesus answers by saying, “let the dead bury their own dead,” using this verb for the filial duty of caring for a parent until death and burial.
- To bury52.4
- In Matthew 14:12, after John the Baptist's death, “John's disciples came and took away the body and buried it,” using this verb for the ordinary act of burying the dead.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon : 1 aorist ἔθαψα; 2 aorist passive ἐτάφην; from Homer down; the Sept. for קָבַר; to bury,…
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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