Extended Strong's Greek Lexicon (Abbott-Smith based)
grave
Usage: 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)
Taphos means “sepulchre” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H5028 — nebat in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G5028 τάφος (taphos) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. taphos (taf'-os) n. 1. a grave (the place of interment) [masculine from G2290] It has 64 linked Bible usages across 23 books. Visible English usage signals include sepulchre and tombs. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
taphos (taf'-os) n. 1. a grave (the place of interment) [masculine from G2290] KJV: sepulchre, tomb Root(s): G2290
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grave
Usage: 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)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render taphos, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, New Testament, and 1 Enoch. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G5028 (τάφος) appears 60 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
7 indexed usages in 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.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.
41 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And the sons of Javan, Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, Rodanim.
I am a sojourner and a stranger among you, give me therefore possession of a burying place among you, and I will bury my dead away from me.
So the field and the cave which was in it were made sure to Abraham for possession of a burying place, by the sons of Heth.
15 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
but joined battle with him in the plain of Megiddo, and the princes came against King Josiah.
Remember, my son, that she saw many dangers for thee, when thou wast in her womb; and when she is dead, bury her by me in one grave.
Then the angel said to him, Dost thou not remember the precepts that thy father gave thee, that thou shouldest marry a wife of thine own kindred? wherefore hear me, O my brother; for she shall be given thee to wife; and make thou no reckoning of the evil spirit; for this same night shall she be given thee in marriage.
1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.
off your necks and slay you, and have no mercy upon you. Woe to you who rejoice in the tribulation of the righteous; for no grave shall be dug for you. Woe to you who set at nought the words of
First 64 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5028.
And the sons of Javan, Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, Rodanim.
I am a sojourner and a stranger among you, give me therefore possession of a burying place among you, and I will bury my dead away from me.
So the field and the cave which was in it were made sure to Abraham for possession of a burying place, by the sons of Heth.
But I will sleep with my fathers, and thou shalt carry me up out of Egypt, and bury me in their sepulcher. And he said, I will do according to thy word.
And Gideon son of Joash died in his city, and was buried in the sepulcher of Joash his father in Ophrah of Abiezer.
And his brethren and his father’s house went down, and they took him; and they went up and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the sepulcher of his father Manoah; and he judged Israel twenty years.
As soon as thou shalt have departed this day from me, thou shalt find two men by the burial place of Rachel on the mount of Benjamin, exulting greatly; and they shall say to thee, The asses are found which ye went to seek; and, behold, thy father has given up the matter of the asses, and he is anxious for you, saying, What shall I do for my son?
And they take up Asahel, and bury him in the tomb of his father in Bethlehem. And Joab and the men with him went all the night, and the morning rose upon them in Hebron.
And they bury Abner in Hebron: and the king lifted up his voice, and wept at his tomb, and all the people wept for Abner.
And David commanded his young men, and they slay them, and cut off their hands and their feet; and they hung them up at the fountain in Hebron: and they buried the head of Ish-bosheth in the tomb of Abner the son of Ner.
And Ahithophel saw that his counsel was not followed, and he saddled his ass, and rose and departed to his house into his city; and he gave orders to his household, and hanged himself, and died, and was buried in the sepulcher of his father.
Let, I pray thee, thy servant remain, and I will die in my city, by the tomb of my father and of my mother. And, behold, thy servant Chimham shall go over with my lord the king; and do thou to him as it seems good in thine eyes.
And they buried the bones of Saul and the bones of Jonathan his son, and the bones of them that had been hanged, in the land of Benjamin in the hill, in the sepulcher of Kish his father; and they did all things that the king commanded: and after this God hearkened to the prayers of the land.
but hast returned, and eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he spoke to thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat bread, and shalt not drink water; therefore thy body shall in nowise enter into the sepulcher of thy fathers.
and they bewailed him, saying, Alas, brother.
And it came to pass after he had lamented him, that he spoke to his sons, saying, Whenever I die, bury me in this tomb wherein the man of God is buried; lay me by his bones, that my bones may be preserved with his bones.
And his servants put him on a chariot, and brought him to Jerusalem, and they buried him in his sepulcher in the city of David.
And it came to pass as they were burying a man, that behold, they saw a band of men, and they cast the man into the grave of Elisha: and as soon as he touched the bones of Elisha, he revived and stood up on his feet.
And they buried him in his tomb in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
It shall not be so therefore: behold, I will add thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy tomb in peace, and thine eyes shall not see any among all the evils which I bring upon this place.
And he carried out the grove from the house of the Lord to the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and reduced it to powder, and cast its powder on the sepulchers of the sons of the people.
And Josiah turned aside, and saw the tombs that were there in the city, and sent, and took the bones out of the tombs, and burned them on the altar, and defiled it, according to the word of the Lord which the man of God spoke, when Jeroboam stood by the altar at the feast: and he turned and raised his eyes to the tomb of the man of God that spoke these words.
And his servants carried him dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulcher: and the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in the room of his father.
He was thirty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem. And he departed without honor, and was buried in the city of David, but not in the tombs of the kings.
And after they had departed from him, when they had left him in sore diseases, then his servants conspired against him because of the blood of the son of Jehoiada the priest, and slew him on his bed, and he died, and they buried him in the city of David, but they buried him not in the sepulcher of the kings.
And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David; for they did not bring him into the sepulchers of the kings of Israel: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.
And Hezekiah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in a high place among the sepulchers of the sons of David: and all Judah and the dwellers in Jerusalem gave him glory and honor at his death. And Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.
After him repaired Nehemiah the son of Azbuk, the ruler of the half part of Bethzur, unto the place over against the sepulchres of David, and to the pool that was made, and unto the house of the mighty.
And thou shalt come to the grave like ripe corn reaped in its season, Or as a heap of the corn flour collected in proper time.
Let the grave be my city, upon the walls of which I have leaped: I will not shrink from it; For I have not denied the holy words of my God.
And he has been led away to the tombs, And he has watched over the heaps.
For there is no truth in their mouth; Their heart is vain; Their throat is an open sepulcher; With their tongues they have used deceit.
They are all gone out of the way, they are together become good for nothing, There is none that does good, no not one. Their throat is an open sepulcher; With their tongues they have used deceit; The poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness; Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways; And the way of peace they have not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
And their sepulchers are their houses forever, Even their tabernacles to all generations: They have called their lands after their own names.
God settles the solitary in a house; Leading forth prisoners mightily, Also them that act provokingly, even them that dwell in tombs.
free among the dead, As the slain ones cast out, who sleep in the tomb; Whom thou rememberest no more; And they are rejected from thy hand.
Shall anyone declare thy mercy in the tomb? And thy truth in destruction?
And then I saw the ungodly carried into the tombs, And that out of the holy place: And they departed, and were praised in the city, Because they had done thus: This also is vanity.
At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves;
because he slew me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb, and her womb always great with me.
And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, that I may bring up my people from their graves.
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.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.
Command 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.
So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
In 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.
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
but joined battle with him in the plain of Megiddo, and the princes came against King Josiah.
Remember, my son, that she saw many dangers for thee, when thou wast in her womb; and when she is dead, bury her by me in one grave.
Then the angel said to him, Dost thou not remember the precepts that thy father gave thee, that thou shouldest marry a wife of thine own kindred? wherefore hear me, O my brother; for she shall be given thee to wife; and make thou no reckoning of the evil spirit; for this same night shall she be given thee in marriage.
saying, I fear lest he also be dead.
But when Raguel was come into his house,
Then Raguel bade his servants to fill the grave.
And he died in the hundred forty and sixth year, and his sons buried him in the sepulchers of his fathers at Modein, and all Israel made great lamentation for him.
Then Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother, and buried him in the sepulcher of his fathers in Modein.
Simon also built a monument upon the sepulcher of his father and his brethren, and raised it aloft to the sight, with hewn stone behind and before.
This is the sepulcher which he made at Modein, and it standeth yet unto this day.
and he that had cast out many unburied had none to mourn for him, nor any solemn funerals at all, nor sepulcher with his fathers.
And upon the day following, as the use had been, Judas and his company came to take up the bodies of them that were slain, and to bury them with their kinsmen in their fathers’ graves.
Then they who were before despised and nigh unto Hades, yea, rather advanced into it, partook of the cup of salvation, instead of a grievous and lamentable death. Full of exultation, they parted out the place intended for their fall and burial into banqueting booths.
For while they were yet mourning And making lamentation at the graves of the dead, They added another foolish device, And pursued them as fugitives, whom they had entreated to be gone.
Are as messes of meat set upon a grave.
off your necks and slay you, and have no mercy upon you. Woe to you who rejoice in the tribulation of the righteous; for no grave shall be dug for you. Woe to you who set at nought the words of
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Taphos (Strong's G5028) is a Greek word most simply glossed "sepulchre". taphos (taf'-os) n. 1. a grave (the place of interment) [masculine from G2290]
This page currently indexes 64 linked usages for Strong's G5028 across 23 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G5028 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sepulchre and tombs. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 41 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, 15 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 in 1 Enoch for Strong's G5028, with linked reader references where each row is available.