τάφοςtáphos
a grave (the place of interment)
Greek (New Testament) · G5028
Meanings
1. a burial (Hom., and elsewhere).
2. a grave, tomb: Matthew 23:27, Matthew 23:29, Matthew 27:61, Matthew 27:64, Matthew 27:66, Matthew 28:1, Romans 3:13 (LXX).
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 7 times in the Bible.
- Matthew 23:27 “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs—beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people’s bones and all sorts of impurity.
- Matthew 23:29 “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you build tombs for the prophets your ancestors killed, and you decorate the monuments of the godly people your ancestors destroyed.
- Matthew 27:61 Both Mary Magdalene and the other Mary were sitting across from the tomb and watching.
- Matthew 27:64 So we request that you seal the tomb until the third day. This will prevent his disciples from coming and stealing his body and then telling everyone he was raised from the dead! If that happens, we’ll be worse off than we were at first.”
- Matthew 27:66 So they sealed the tomb and posted guards to protect it.
- Matthew 28:1 Early on Sunday morning, as the new day was dawning, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went out to visit the tomb.
Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.