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τάφος

Third declension Noun; Neuter Transliteration:

Principal Part: τάφος τάφεος

Structure: ταφο (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: te/qhpa

Sense

  1. astonishment, amazement

Declension

Third declension

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 ἐξένευσεν Ἰωσίασ καὶ εἶδε τοὺσ τάφουσ τοὺσ ἐκεῖ ἐν τῇ πόλει καὶ ἀπέστειλε καὶ ἔλαβε τὰ ὀστᾶ ἐκ τῶν τάφων καὶ κατέκαυσεν ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον καὶ ἐμίανεν αὐτὸ κατὰ τὸ ρῆμα Κυρίου, ὃ ἐλάλησεν ὁ ἄνθρωποσ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἐν τῷ ἑστάναι Ἱεροβοὰμ ἐν τῇ ἑορτῇ ἐπὶ τὸ θυσιαστήριον. καὶ ἐπιστρέψασ ᾖρε τοὺσ ὀφθαλμοὺσ αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὸν τάφον τοῦ ἀνθρώπου τοῦ Θεοῦ τοῦ λαλήσαντοσ τοὺσ λόγουσ τούτους (Septuagint, Liber II Regum 23:16)
  • καὶ ἐκοιμήθη Ἄχαζ μετὰ τῶν πατέρων αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐτάφη ἐν πόλει Δαυίδ, ὅτι οὐκ εἰσήνεγκαν αὐτὸν εἰσ τοὺσ τάφουσ τῶν βασιλέων Ἰσραήλ. καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν Ἐζεκίασ υἱὸσ αὐτοῦ ἀντ’ αὐτοῦ. (Septuagint, Liber II Paralipomenon 28:27)
  • τῇ δὲ ἐχομένῃ ἦλθον οἱ περὶ τὸν Ἰούδαν καθ̓ ὃν τρόπον τὸ τῆσ χρείασ ἐγεγόνει, τὰ τῶν προπεπτωκότων σώματα ἀνακομίσασθαι καὶ μετὰ τῶν συγγενῶν ἀποκαταστῆσαι εἰσ τοὺσ πατρῴουσ τάφουσ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees II 12:39)
  • καὶ αὐτὸσ εἰσ τάφουσ ἀπηνέχθη καὶ ἐπὶ σωρῶν ἠγρύπνησεν. (Septuagint, Liber Iob 21:32)
  • καὶ τότε εἶδον ἀσεβεῖσ εἰσ τάφουσ εἰσαχθέντασ, καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ἁγίου, καὶ ἐπορεύθησαν καὶ ἐπῃνέθησαν ἐν τῇ πόλει, ὅτι οὕτωσ ἐποίησαν. καί γε τοῦτο ματαιότησ. (Septuagint, Liber Ecclesiastes 8:10)

Synonyms

  1. astonishment

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

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