Greek noun (masculine) · G5028
τάφος
taphostaf'-os
a burial (Hom., al.).; a grave, tomb
7 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: táphos
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G5028is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 27New Testament books
- 5spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G5028
a grave (the place of interment)
The King James renders it: sepulchre, tomb.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
taphos is rendered "a burial (Hom., al.).; a grave, tomb". It stands 7 times in the Greek text, across two books.
- Six of the uses stand in Matthew, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "a burial (Hom., al.).".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Matthew 23:27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
Matthew 23:27τάφοις
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: a burial (Hom., al.)., and a grave, tomb.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| a burial (Hom., al.). | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 23:27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs… |
| a grave, tomb | Tagged as
| WhereMatthew 23:27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs… |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 7, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- τάφον3
- τάφοις1
- τάφος1
- τάφου.¶1
- τάφους1
The grammar of each form
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine singular3N-ASM
- noun · accusative (object) · masculine plural1N-APM
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine plural1N-DPM
- noun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singular1N-GSM
- noun · nominative (subject) · masculine singular1N-NSM
Matthew
six uses
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.
- τάφοιςtaphoisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · masculine pluraltagged: tombs
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.
- τάφουςtaphousnoun · accusative (object) · masculine pluraltagged: tombs
Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting there opposite the tomb.
- τάφου.¶taphounoun · genitive (“of”) · masculine singulartagged: tomb
So give the order that the tomb be secured until the third day. Otherwise, His disciples may come and steal Him away and tell the people He has risen from the dead. And this last deception would be worse than the first.”
- τάφονtaphonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: tomb
So they went and secured the tomb by sealing the stone and posting the guard.
- τάφονtaphonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: tomb
After the Sabbath, at dawn on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went to see the tomb.
- τάφονtaphonnoun · accusative (object) · masculine singulartagged: tomb
Romans
one use
“Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.” “The venom of vipers is on their lips.”
- τάφοςtaphosnoun · nominative (subject) · masculine singulartagged: A grave
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.