τάφος
táphos · G5028 · Greek · 7 occurrences
Thing
- Tomb, graveBurial and mourning142 verses
Meanings
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grave, tomb
A construction for the burial of the dead; often a natural cave or hewn out of bedrock
ExamplesMatthew 23:27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.
Matthew 23:29 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,
Matthew 27:61 And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, sitting opposite the tomb.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- προφήτηςprophet 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀσφαλίζωto make secure 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 4 groups
- θεωρέωto see, to look at, to observe 1
- οἰκοδομέωto build, to build up 1
- πορεύομαιto go, to travel 1
- ἀσφαλίζωto make secure 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἀπέναντιopposite 2
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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Near synonyms 2 words
- μνημεῖον mnēmeîon · G3419 · grave, tomb, monument
- τάφος denotes the burial place itself, while μνημεῖον encompasses both burial function and commemorative purpose, functioning also as a monument or memorial. The two converge on the core sense of a place of burial, with μνημεῖον carrying the additional commemorative nuance.
- μνῆμα mnēma · G3418 · grave, tomb
- Both terms refer to burial places or graves. μνῆμα emphasizes the memorial or monumental aspect of a burial site, while τάφος focuses on the grave as the specific place where a body is interred, though in practice the terms overlap substantially in referring to tombs and sepulchers.
In the other Testament 1 word
- קֶבֶר qeber · H6913 · tomb, grave, world of the dead
- Direct translation equivalent denoting the physical place of burial or interment.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Grave, tomb7.75
- Jesus pronounces woe on the scribes and Pharisees, “you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men's bones” (Matthew 23:27).
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon τάφου, ὁ (θάπτω); 1. burial (so from Homer down). 2. a grave, sepulchre (so from Hesiod…
1. burial (so from Homer down).
2. a grave, sepulchre (so from Hesiod down): Mt 23:27, Mt 23:29; Mt 27:61, Mt 27:64, Mt 27:66; Mt 28:1; in a comparison: τάφος ἀνεῳγμένος ὁ λάρυγξ αὐτῶν, their speech threatens destruction to others, it is death to someone whenever they open their mouth, Rom 3:13. The Sept. for קֶבֶר; and sometimes for קְבוּרָה.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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