mnēmas

Strong’sG3420

memory, remembrance, mention

stem mnēm-once in the New Testament1 of 10 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.

μνήμη, -ης, ἡ

(< μνάομαι), [in LXX for זֵכֶר, זִכָּרוֹן;]

memory, remembrance, mention: μ. ποιεῖσθαι, c. gen., to remember, II Pe 1:15 (but in cl., π., μ. π. more freq. = to make mention, and so perh. here, cf. Mayor, in l.; and for ex. from π., v. Zorell, s.v.).†

SYN.: μνεία, q.v.

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G3420 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saidmnay'-may

memory

Fromfrom G3403;

King Jamesremembrance.

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

μνήμ-η,
Doric dialect μνάμα, ἡ, (μνάομαι) remembrance, memory of a person or thing, absolutely or with genitive, κακῶν μ. γίνεται οὐδεμία Refs 6th c.BC+; λείπεσθαι ἀθάνατον μ. (i.e. ἑαυτοῦ) Refs 5th c.BC+; οἱ ἄνθρωποι πρὸς ἃ ἔπασχον τὴν μ. ἐποιοῦντο made their recollections suit their sufferings, Refs 5th c.BC+; μνήμην πεποίηκεν has made [him] remembered, Refs 5th c.BC+; of the dead, μακαρίας μνήμης, θείας μνήμης, Refs 6th c.AD+; κρατίστης μνήμης Wilcken Refs 2nd c.AD+; μνήμης ἀρίστης Refs 3rd c.AD+
2 memory as a power of the mind, Refs 4th c.BC+; proper to animals, opposed to ἀνάμνησις, of man, Refs 5th c.BC+; εἰπεῖν τι μνήμης ἄπο from memory, Refs 5th c.BC+; εἰς μ. ἀναληπτέονRefs 5th c.BC+ all the memories, acts of memory, Refs 4th c.BC+; powers of memory, Refs
3 memorial, record, κυπαρίττιναι μνῆμαι εἰς τὸν ἔπειτα χρόνον καταγεγραμμέναι Refs 5th c.BC+; μνῆμαι ἐν μέτροις καὶ ἄνευ μέτρων inscriptions, Refs 4th c.BC+; μ. μυθολόγος mythological record, history, Refs 3rd c.BC+
II mention, notice of a thing, μ. ποιεῖσθαί τινος Refs 5th c.BC+; μ. ποιήσασθαι περί or ὑπέρ τινος, Refs 5th c.BC+
III μνήμη βασίλειος the imperial cabinet or archives, τῆς β. μ. προεστώς, = Latin a memoria, Refs 2nd c.AD+
IV ={μνῆμα}, tomb, Refs

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.

reminder1×

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 nominative	mnēmas	mnēmais
object accusative	mnēman1×μνήμην	mnēmain
direct address vocative	mnēmar	mnēmair
of, belonging to genitive	mnēmau	mnēmaiu
to, for dative	mnēma	mnēmai

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

mnēmstem+agender+snru—its job in the sentence case+—ione · more than one number

mnēma 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.

mnēmem — μνῆμα, a tomb, monument

Where it appears

Every verse the word appears in, filed under the form it takes there.

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

mnēman“reminder”objectaccusative singular1×

2 Peter 1:15“reminder”… meta tan ēman exodan tan houteiu mnēman poiorō.… effort to ensure that after my departure, you will be able to recall these things at …