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Strong's G5028 τάφος (taphos)

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 Number G5028
Language Greek
Linked Usages 64
Books 23

Strong's G5028 Quick Answer

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.

Meaning
taphos (taf'-os) n. 1. a grave (the place of interment) [masculine from G2290]
Usage
64 linked usages
Books
23 indexed books
Corpus
New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, and 1 Enoch
Usage Words
sepulchre and tombs

Meaning and Definition

taphos (taf'-os) n. 1. a grave (the place of interment) [masculine from G2290] KJV: sepulchre, tomb Root(s): G2290

Original Word
τάφος
Transliteration
taphos
Derivation
Root: θάπτω R1: 2290
Morphology
noun

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's G5028. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

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)

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How Strong's G5028 Is Translated

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.

sepulchre Matthew 27:61 tombs Matthew 23:29

How Strong's G5028 Usage Compares

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.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Septuagint / Greek Old Testament with 41 linked usages.
  • This page lets readers compare New Testament usage with Septuagint / Greek Old Testament usage, which is a key THF advantage over narrower Strong's pages.
  • Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha rows are counted separately so readers can decide how those texts relate to the main word study.
  • 1 Enoch rows are separated from the other corpora rather than being hidden inside a generic apocrypha bucket.

In the Septuagint (LXX)

Strong's G5028 (τάφος) appears 60 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.

Sample Septuagint occurrences:

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Strong's G5028 by Corpus

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.

Strong's G5028 in the New Testament

7 indexed usages in New Testament.

Matthew 23:27 KJV

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.

Matthew 23:29 KJV

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

Matthew 27:61 KJV

And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.

Strong's G5028 in the Septuagint / Greek Old Testament

41 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.

Genesis 10:4 Septuagint / Brenton

And the sons of Javan, Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, Rodanim.

Genesis 23:4 Septuagint / Brenton

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.

Genesis 23:20 Septuagint / Brenton

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.

Strong's G5028 in the deuterocanonical books / Apocrypha

15 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.

1 Esdras 1:29 Septuagint / Brenton

but joined battle with him in the plain of Megiddo, and the princes came against King Josiah.

Tobit 4:4 Septuagint / Brenton

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.

Tobit 6:15 Septuagint / Brenton

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.

Strong's G5028 in 1 Enoch

1 indexed usage in 1 Enoch.

1 Enoch 98:13 Septuagint / Brenton

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

Usage Excerpts

First 64 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G5028.

Genesis 10:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And the sons of Javan, Elishah, and Tarshish, Kittim, Rodanim.
Genesis 23:4 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Genesis 23:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Genesis 47:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Judges 8:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And Gideon son of Joash died in his city, and was buried in the sepulcher of Joash his father in Ophrah of Abiezer.
Judges 16:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
1 Kingdoms 10:2 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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?
2 Kingdoms 2:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
2 Kingdoms 3:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
2 Kingdoms 4:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
2 Kingdoms 17:23 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
2 Kingdoms 19:38 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
2 Kingdoms 21:14 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
3 Kingdoms 13:22 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
3 Kingdoms 13:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
and they bewailed him, saying, Alas, brother.
3 Kingdoms 13:31 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
4 Kingdoms 9:28 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
4 Kingdoms 13:21 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
4 Kingdoms 21:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And they buried him in his tomb in the garden of Uzza: and Josiah his son reigned in his stead.
4 Kingdoms 22:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
4 Kingdoms 23:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
4 Kingdoms 23:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
4 Kingdoms 23:30 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
2 Chronicles 21:20 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
2 Chronicles 24:25 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
2 Chronicles 28:27 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
2 Chronicles 32:33 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Nehemiah 3:16 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Job 5:26 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Job 6:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Job 21:32 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And he has been led away to the tombs, And he has watched over the heaps.
Psalms 5:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Psalms 13:3 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Psalms 48:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
And their sepulchers are their houses forever, Even their tabernacles to all generations: They have called their lands after their own names.
Psalms 67:7 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
God settles the solitary in a house; Leading forth prisoners mightily, Also them that act provokingly, even them that dwell in tombs.
Psalms 87:6 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Psalms 87:12 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
Shall anyone declare thy mercy in the tomb? And thy truth in destruction?
Ecclesiastes 8:10 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Jeremiah 8:1 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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;
Jeremiah 20:17 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
because he slew me not in the womb, and my mother became not my tomb, and her womb always great with me.
Ezekiel 37:13 Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Matthew 23:27 New Testament, KJV
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.
Matthew 23:29 New Testament, KJV
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
Matthew 27:61 New Testament, KJV
And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.
Matthew 27:64 New Testament, KJV
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.
Matthew 27:66 New Testament, KJV
So they went, and made the sepulchre sure, sealing the stone, and setting a watch.
Matthew 28:1 New Testament, KJV
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.
Romans 3:13 New Testament, KJV
Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:
1 Esdras 1:29 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
but joined battle with him in the plain of Megiddo, and the princes came against King Josiah.
Tobit 4:4 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Tobit 6:15 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Tobit 8:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
saying, I fear lest he also be dead.
Tobit 8:11 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
But when Raguel was come into his house,
Tobit 8:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then Raguel bade his servants to fill the grave.
1 Maccabees 2:70 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
1 Maccabees 9:19 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Then Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother, and buried him in the sepulcher of his fathers in Modein.
1 Maccabees 13:27 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
1 Maccabees 13:30 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
This is the sepulcher which he made at Modein, and it standeth yet unto this day.
2 Maccabees 5:10 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
2 Maccabees 12:39 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
3 Maccabees 6:31 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Wisdom of Solomon 19:3 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
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.
Wisdom of Sirach 30:18 Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha, Septuagint / Brenton
Are as messes of meat set upon a grave.
1 Enoch 98:13 1 Enoch, Septuagint / Brenton
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

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's G5028, grouped by book.

Genesis 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
1 Kingdoms 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Kingdoms 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
3 Kingdoms 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
4 Kingdoms 7 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
2 Chronicles 4 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Job 3 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Psalms 6 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ecclesiastes 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament
Matthew 6 usages, New Testament
Romans 1 usage, New Testament
1 Esdras 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Tobit 5 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Maccabees 4 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
2 Maccabees 2 usages, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
3 Maccabees 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Solomon 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
Wisdom of Sirach 1 usage, Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha
1 Enoch 1 usage, 1 Enoch

Strong's G5028 FAQ

What does taphos (τάφος) mean?

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]

How many times is taphos (τάφος) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 64 linked usages for Strong's G5028 across 23 books.

Where can I study taphos (τάφος) in context?

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.

What English words translate taphos (τάφος)?

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.

Does Strong's G5028 appear in the Septuagint or deuterocanonical books?

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.