noun · feminine

tafas

Greekταφή (tafē)

Strong’sG5027

a burial

stem taf-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

burial place1×

What it means

ταφή, -ῆς, ἡ

(< θάπτω), [in LXX chiefly for קֶבֶר and cognate forms;]

burial: Mt 27:7 (Hdt., al.; for other meanings, v. LS, s.v., Deiss., BS, 355 f., MM xxiv).†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G5027 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidtaf-ay'

burial (the act)

Fromfeminine from G2290;

King JamesX bury.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	tafas	tafais
object accusative	tafan1×ταφὴν	tafain
direct address vocative	tafar	tafair
of, belonging to genitive	tafau	tafaiu
to, for dative	tafa	tafai

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

tafstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

tafa is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.

same in every form varies — every value shown

Words built on the same stem

tafos — τάφος, a tomb, burial-place

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

tafan“burial place”objectaccusative singular1×

Matthew 27:7“burial place”sumbouliem de lambaratois agorazala ek auteiu ton Agron tou Keramevou eis tafan toi xenoi.After conferring together, they used the money to buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners.