Matthew 8:28
And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.
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Tombs
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Luke 8:27
And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.
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μνημεῖον
mnēmeîon · mnay-mi'-on
3 times translated as this KJV form42 total Strong's occurrences
a remembrance, i.e. cenotaph (place of interment)
Strong's KJV usage: :--grave, sepulchre, tomb.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 8:28Strong's last: Mark 5:3
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mnēma · mnay'-mah
2 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
a memorial, i.e. sepulchral monument (burial-place)
Strong's KJV usage: :--grave, sepulchre, tomb.
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Strong's first: Mark 5:5Strong's last: Luke 8:27
Open full G3418 profile →τάφος
táphos · taf'-os
1 times translated as this KJV form7 total Strong's occurrences
a grave (the place of interment)
Strong's KJV usage: :--sepulchre, tomb.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Matthew 23:29Strong's last: Matthew 23:29
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G3419
And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
G3419
Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:
G3418
And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
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tomb
TOMB, noun toom. [Latin tumulus, a heap or hillock; tumeo, to swell.]
1. A grave; a pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.
As one dead in the bottom of a tomb
2. A house or vault formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof for the reception of the dead.
3. A monument erected to preserve the memory of the dead.
TOMB, verb transitive To bury; to inter. [See Entomb.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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