Grave
τάφοςStrong’s G5028taphos
Appears in 7 verses of the New Testament
In short
Taphos is the Greek word usually translated “tomb”, “tombs” and “grave”. It appears in 7 verses of the New Testament.
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.”
Meaning
Usually translated “tomb”, “tombs” and “grave”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- tomb 4
- tombs 2
- a grave 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Matthew 6
- Romans 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 23:29Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
- Matthew 27:61And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.
- Matthew 27:64Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.
- Matthew 27:66So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
- Matthew 28:1In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre.
- Romans 3:13Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
Greek dictionary
τάφος taphos · grave
τάφος, -ου, ὁ (θάντω), [in LXX chiefly for קֶבֶר ;] 1. a burial (Hom., al.). 2. a grave, tomb (Res., Hdt., al.): Mat.23:27, 29 27:61, 64 27:66 28:1, Rom.3:13" (LXX) .† (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “grave” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GRAVE, verb transitive
preterit tense graved; participle passive graven or graved. [Gr. to write; originally all writing was graving; Eng. to scrape.]
- To carve or cut letters or figures on stone or other hard substance, with a chisel or edged tool; to engrave. [The latter word is now more generally used.]“Thou shalt take two onyx-stones and grave on them the names of the children of Israel” Exodus 28:9
- To carve; to form or shape by cutting with a chisel; as, to grave an image.“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image” Exodus 20:4
- To clean a ship's bottom by burning off filth, grass or other foreign matter, and paying it over with pitch.
- To entomb. [Unusual.]
All definitions and other forms of “grave”
GRAVE, verb intransitive
To carve; to write or delineate on hard substances; to practice engraving.
GRAVE, noun
[Latin scrobs.]
- The ditch, pit or excavated place in which a dead human body is deposited; a place for the corpse of a human being; a sepulcher.
- A tomb.
- Any place where the dead are reposited; a place of great slaughter or mortality.
- Graves, in the plural, sediment of tallow melted. [Not in use or local.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.