noun · masculine
tafos
Strong’sG5028
a tomb, burial-place
stem taf-7 times in the New Testamentin 2 of 27 books5 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.
τάφος, -ου, ὁ
(< θάπτω), [in LXX chiefly for קֶבֶר;]
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G5028 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidtaf'-os
a grave (the place of interment)
Frommasculine from G2290;
King Jamessepulchre, tomb.
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
(θάπτω)
A funeral-rites, Refs 8th c.BC+; δαινύναι τάφον to give a funeral-feast, Refs 8th c.BC+; τελέσαι τάφον Ἕκτορι δίῳ to perform the funeral-rites, Refs 8th c.BC+; so ὃν πόλις στυγεῖ, σὺ τιμήσεις τάφ; Refs 5th c.BC+; τάφου τυχεῖν obtain the rites of burial, Refs 5th c.BC+: plural of a single funeral, Refs 5th c.BC+; so of cremation, Refs 1st c.AD+
A.2 the act of performing the funeral-rites, τοῦδε τοῦ τ. φήσεις μετασχεῖν Refs 5th c.BC+
A.II grave, tomb, Refs 8th c.BC+: plural of a single grave, Refs 5th c.BC+; ὄντες ἐν τάφοις dead and buried, Refs 4th c.BC+; μέγας γ᾽ ὀφθαλμὸς οἱ πατρὸς τάφοι his being dead and buried, Refs 5th c.BC+
A.II.2 ἔμψυχός τις τ. a 'living skeleton', Refs 2nd c.AD+
A.II.3 ={βωμός}, Refs 4th c.BC+
A.II.4 Refs 8th c.BC+
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 | tafos1×τάφος | tafois |
| object accusative | tafon3×τάφον | tafoin1×τάφους |
| direct address vocative | tafor | tafoir |
| of, belonging to genitive | tafou1×τάφου | tafoiu |
| to, for dative | tafo | tafoi1×τάφοις |
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
tafo 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.
7 occurrences, every one of them listed
tafos“grave”subjectnominative singular1×
Romans 3:13“grave”tafos anoigorēntos tos larungos autoiu, tai glōssai …… throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit …
tafon“tomb”objectaccusative singular3×
Matthew 27:64keleuasar oun asfalizira ton tafon heōs tau tritau hēmerau, mēpote ercharantois …So give the order that the tomb be secured until the third day …
Matthew 27:66tois de poreuirantois asfalizela ton tafon sfragizarantois ton lithon meta tau koustōdiau.So they went and secured the tomb by sealing the stone and posting …
Matthew 28:1… kai tas allosas Marias theōrara ton tafon.… other Mary went to see the tomb.
tafou“tomb”of, belonging togenitive singular1×
Matthew 27:61… tas allosas Marias kathorōntais apenanti tou tafou.… Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.
tafoin“tombs”objectaccusative plural1×
Matthew 23:29… kai Farisaioir hupokritoir, hoti oikodomavō toin tafoin toiu profētoiu kai kosmavō teim mnēmeieim …… and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the …
tafoi“tombs”to, fordative plural1×
Matthew 23:27… grammatevoir kai Farisaioir hupokritoir, hoti paromoiazavō tafoi koniorēntoi, hotinois exōthen men fanolō hōraiois …… you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside …