ΤΑΦΟΥΣ, ταφους
TAPHOUS, taphous
Sounds Like: TAH-foos
Translations: tombs, graves
From the root: ΤΑΦΟΣ
Part of Speech: Noun
Explanation: This word is the plural accusative form of the noun 'taphos', meaning 'tomb' or 'grave'. It refers to burial places or sepulchers. In a sentence, it would typically be used as the direct object of a verb, indicating something being done to or with tombs.
Inflection: Plural, Accusative, Masculine
Strong’s number: G5028 (Lookup on BibleHub)
Instances
Clement of Alexandria
Codex Sinaiticus
Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint
- 2 Kings — 23:16
- 2 Chronicles — 28:27
- 2 Maccabees — 12:39
- Ecclesiastes — 8:10
- Job — 21:32
- Ezekiel — 37:13
Tischendorf's Greek New Testament
- Matthew — 23:29
From the same root
Below are all other words in our texts that we've cataloged as being from the same root, ΤΑΦΟΣ.
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.
- ΑΤΑΦΟΝ — unburied, unburried, unsepulchered
- ΤΑΦ — tomb, a tomb, grave, a grave, sepulchre, a sepulchre
- ΤΑΦΑΙ — graves, tombs, burials
- ΤΑΦΑΝΟΥΣ — of a tomb, of a sepulchre, of a grave
- ΤΑΦΑΣ — tombs, a tomb, graves, a grave
- ΤΑΦΟ — tomb, a tomb, grave, a grave, sepulchre, a sepulchre, (of) a tomb, (of) a grave
- ΤΑΦΟΙ — tombs, graves
- ΤΑΦΟΙΣ — (to) tombs, (in) tombs, (at) tombs, (to) graves, (in) graves, (at) graves
- ΤΑΦΟΝ — tomb, a tomb, grave, a grave
- ΤΑΦΟΣ — tomb, a tomb, grave, a grave, sepulchre, a sepulchre
- ΤΑΦΟΥ — of a tomb, of a grave, of a sepulchre, a tomb, a grave, a sepulchre
- ΤΑΦΩ — tomb, a tomb, grave, a grave
- ΤΑΦΩΝ — of tombs, of graves, of sepulchers
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