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ταφεύς

Third declension Noun; Masculine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ταφεύς ταφέως

Structure: ταφευ (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: qa/ptw

Sense

  1. a burier

Declension

Third declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ταφεύς ταφή ταφής
Genitive ταφέως ταφέοιν ταφέων
Dative ταφεί ταφέοιν ταφεῦσιν*
Accusative ταφέα ταφή ταφέᾱς
Vocative ταφεύ ταφή ταφής

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ ἐπλήρωσαν αὐτοῦ τεσσαράκοντα ἡμέρασ. οὕτω γὰρ καταριθμοῦνται αἱ ἡμέραι τῆσ ταφῆσ. καὶ ἐπένθησεν αὐτὸν Αἴγυπτοσ ἑβδομήκοντα ἡμέρασ. (Septuagint, Liber Genesis 50:3)
  • καὶ ἐκοιμήθη Ὀζίασ μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔθαψαν αὐτὸν μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ ἐν τῷ πεδίῳ τῆσ ταφῆσ τῶν βασιλέων, ὅτι εἶπαν ὅτι λεπρόσ ἐστι. καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν Ἰωάθαμ υἱὸσ αὐτοῦ ἀντ’ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 26:23)
  • τοὺσ δὲ Ἰουδαίουσ, οὓσ διεγνώκει μηδὲ ταφῆσ ἀξιῶσαι οἰωνοβρώτουσ δὲ σὺν τοῖσ νηπίοισ ἐκρίψειν θηρίοισ, πάντασ αὐτοὺσ ἴσουσ Ἀθηναίουσ ποιήσειν. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 9:15)
  • ΟΛΕΚΟΜΑΙ πνεύματι φερόμενοσ, δέομαι δὲ ταφῆσ καὶ οὐ τυγχάνω. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 17:1)
  • καὶ δώσω τοὺσ πονηροὺσ ἀντὶ τῆσ ταφῆσ αὐτοῦ καὶ τοὺσ πλουσίουσ ἀντὶ τοῦ θανάτου αὐτοῦ. ὅτι ἀνομίαν οὐκ ἐποίησεν, οὐδὲ εὑρέθη δόλοσ ἐν τῷ στόματι αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber Isaiae 53:9)

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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