2001 Translation

TAPHĒ, taphē

Sounds Like: TA-fay

Translations: burial, a burial, tomb, a tomb

From the root: ΤΑΦΗ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to the act of burying a deceased person or the place where a body is buried, such as a tomb or grave. It is used to describe the process of interment or the final resting place.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative or Accusative, Feminine

Strong’s number: G5028 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

Codex Sinaiticus

• Isaiah — 57:2

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 7 — 1:43

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Five — 13:42

Justin Martyr

• First Apology of Justin Martyr — 48:1
• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 16:5, 97:2, 118:1

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• Deuteronomy — 21:23
• Ecclesiastes — 6:3
• Sirach — 40:1
• Isaiah — 57:2
• Ezekiel — 32:22

From the same root

Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΤΑΦΗ.

These could represent different words with related meanings, or different forms of the same word to fit different grammatical cases, numbers, or genders. This list may include spelling variants and even misspellings in the original manuscripts! Even more words from the same root may exist in other ancient texts that aren't in our database.

• ΤΑΦΑΙΣ — (to) burials, (to) graves, (to) tombs
• ΤΑΦΗΝ — burial, a burial, tomb, a tomb
• ΤΑΦΗΣ — of burial, of a burial, of a tomb, of a grave
• ΤΑΦ‾Η‾ — burial, interment, a burial, an interment

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