2001 Translation

TAPHOS, taphos

Sounds Like: TAF-os

Translations: tomb, a tomb, grave, a grave, sepulchre, a sepulchre

From the root: ΤΑΦΟΣ

Part of Speech: Noun

Explanation: This word refers to a tomb, grave, or sepulchre, which is a place where a dead body is laid. It is a masculine noun and is used to denote the physical resting place of the deceased.

Inflection: Singular, Nominative, Masculine

Strong’s number: G5028 (Lookup on BibleHub)

Instances

1 Enoch Greek Collection

• 1 Enoch — 98:13

Clement of Alexandria

• Exhortation to the Greeks (Protrepticus) — 2:94, 3:18, 4:20

Codex Sinaiticus

• 1 Maccabees — 13:30
• Psalms — 5:10
• Job — 6:10
• Jeremiah — 20:17
• Romans — 3:13

Ignatius of Antioch

• Ignatius’ Letter to the Romans — 4:2

Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews

• Book 1 — 6:151
• Book 5 — 1:119

Josephus' The Jewish War

• Book Five — 1:19

Justin Martyr

• Dialogue with Trypho the Jew — 27:3

Swete's Recension of the Greek Septuagint

• 1 Maccabees — 13:30
• Psalms — 5:10, 13:3
• Job — 6:10
• Jeremiah — 20:17

Tischendorf's Greek New Testament

• Romans — 3:13

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
• ΤΑΦΟΥ — of a tomb, of a grave, of a sepulchre, a tomb, a grave, a sepulchre
• ΤΑΦΟΥΣ — tombs, graves
• ΤΑΦΩ — tomb, a tomb, grave, a grave
• ΤΑΦΩΝ — of tombs, of graves, of sepulchers

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