noun · feminine
tafas
Strong’sG5027
a burial
stem taf-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
ταφή, -ῆς, ἡ
(< θάπτω), [in LXX chiefly for קֶבֶר and cognate forms;]
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.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
(see. θάπτω) burial, ταφῆς τυχεῖν, κυρῆσαι, Refs 5th c.BC+: in plural, mode of burial, Refs: plural also of the burials of those who had fallen in battle, δημοσίᾳ ταφὰς ἐποιήσαντο Refs 5th c.BC+; νόμοι.., οἷς ἐχρῶντο περὶ τὰς ταφάςRefs 2nd c.BC+
2 plural also, burial-place, Refs 5th c.BC+: later in singular, Refs 1st c.BC+, of the urn supposed to contain the ashes of Orestes, Refs 5th c.BC+; so in Egypt, mummy, Refs 1st c.AD+; also, sarcophagus, δευτέρα τ., of a double sarcophagus, Refs 2nd c.AD+
3 payment for burial, burial-fee, τὸν τὴν τ. τοῦ πατρὸς οὐκ ἀπειληφότα Refs 4th c.BC+; ὑπὲρ τέλους ταφῆς μιᾶς Refs 2nd c.AD+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| 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
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
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
1 occurrence, every one of them listed
tafan“burial place”objectaccusative singular1×
Matthew 27:7… auteiu ton Agron tou Keramevou eis tafan toi xenoi.… buy the potter’s field as a burial place for foreigners.