noun · neuter
mnēmem
Strong’sG3418
a tomb, monument
stem mnēm-8 times in the New Testamentin 4 of 27 books3 of 6 forms occur
What it means
What the word means, in the words of the lexicons out of copyright — Abbott-Smith, Strong's, and Liddell-Scott-Jones, wherever each has an entry for it.
μνῆμα, -τος, τό
(< μνάομαι), [in LXX for קֶבֶר, קְבוּרָה;]
SYN.: μνημεῖον.
G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.
Strong’s G3418 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from
Saidmnay'-mah
a memorial, i.e. sepulchral monument (burial-place)
Fromfrom G3415;
King Jamesgrave, sepulchre, tomb.
James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.
Liddell-Scott-Jones — the classical dictionary this word appears in
Doric dialect and Aeolic dialect μνᾶμα, ατος, τό, (μνάομαι, μιμνήσκω) memorial, remembrance, record of a person or thing, with genitive, μνῆμ᾽ Ἑλένης χειρῶν Refs 8th c.BC+; Νικοκλέος μνᾶμα κελαδῆσαι Refs 4th c.BC+; λυγρᾶς μνήματα Τροίας, of the sufferings of the Greeks, Refs 5th c.BC+; μ... διὰ χειρὸς ἔχων, i. e. the dead body of his son, Refs
2 mound or building in honour of the dead, monument, tomb, Refs 5th c.BC+; coffin, Refs 5th c.BC+
3 memorial dedicated to a god, Refs 4th c.BC+: generally, monument, Refs 6th c.BC+
II ={μνήμη}, memory, μ. ἔχουσ᾽ ἀγαθῶν Refs 6th c.BC+
H. G. Liddell, R. Scott, H. S. Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (9th ed., 1925–1940) — digitised by the Perseus Digital Library and corrected and expanded by Tyndale House, Cambridge, via STEPBible-Data's TFLSJ table, CC BY 4.0. Covers all of Greek literature, not just the Bible.
Translated as
Every occurrence, sorted by the English it was actually given — the evidence for what the word means, not a gloss of it.
Berean Standard Bible (BSB), dedicated to the public domain — berean.bible.
Biblang forms
Every form this word takes in Biblang, with the Greek it corresponds to and how often the New Testament uses it.
| Job in the sentence case | one singular | more than one plural |
|---|---|---|
| subject or object direct | mnēmem1×μνῆμα | mnēmeim |
| of, belonging to genitive | mnēmeu | mnēmeiu |
| to, for dative | mnēme2×μνήματι | mnēmei3×μνήμασιν |
Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.
Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them
mnēme is this word in every one of its forms. The slots after it make all the rest.
same in every form varies — every value shown
Words built on the same stem
Other words sharing the exact same stem — not merely related in meaning.
Where it appears
Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.
8 occurrences, every one of them listed
mnēmem“tomb”subject or objectdirect singular1×
Acts 2:29… kai teleutata kai thaptita, kai tem mnēmem autou atō en ni achri tau …… died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
mnēme“tomb”to, fordative singular2×
Luke 23:53… autem sindona, kai tithata auton en mnēme laxeute hou ouk ate oudenos oupō …… cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut into the rock, where no …
Acts 7:16… eis Suchem kai tithila en te mnēme he ōneta Abraam timau argurieu para …… to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the …
mnēmei“tombs”to, fordative plural3×
Mark 5:3hos tan katoikēsian echate en tei mnēmei, kai oude halusia ouketi oudenos dunote …… man had been living in the tombs and could no longer be restrained …
Mark 5:5… pantou nuktau kai hēmerau en tei mnēmei kai en tei orei ate krazarōntos …Night and day in the tombs and in the mountains he kept …
Luke 8:27… oikia ouk menate alla en tei mnēmei.… house, but he stayed in the tombs.
mnēmem2×
Luke 24:1… teiu sabbateiu orthrou bathuou epi tem mnēmem erchala ferarōntais heim hetoimazala arōmeim.… morning, the women came to the tomb, bringing the spices they had prepared.
Revelation 11:9… ptōmeim autoiu ouk afiēkalō tithira eis mnēmem.… them to be laid in a tomb.