Strong's Lexicon
G3418 — μνῆμα
Greek entry for Bible study and original-language reference.
Definition / Gloss
| Strong's Number: | G3418 |
|---|---|
| Word: | μνῆμα |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Etymology: | from G3415 |
| Language: | Greek |
| Occurrences: | 8 |
| Transliteration: | mnema |
| Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation: | mnay`-mah |
| Meaning: | 1. a memorial, i.e. sepulchral monument (burial-place) |
| KJV Renderings: | grave, sepulchre, tomb |
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Thayer's Greek Lexicon
μνῆμα, μνήματος, τό (μνάομαι, perfect passive μέμνημαι);
1. a monument or memorial to perpetuate the memory of any person or thing (Homer, Pindar, Sophocles, others).
2. a sepulchral monument (Homer, Euripides, Xenophon, Plato, others).
3. a sepulchre or tomb (receptacle where a dead body is deposited (cf. Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, ii., 316f)): Mar 5:3 G L T Tr WH; ; ( T WH); Luk 8:27; Luk 23:53; Luk 24:1; Act 2:29; Act 7:16; Rev 11:9 (Josephus, Antiquities 7, 1, 3; the Sept. for ÷ÆáÆø).
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Englishman's Greek Concordance
μνῆμα (grave)
Mark 5:5
- KJV: And always night and day he was in the mountains and in the tombs crying and cutting himself with stones
- GK: και διαπαντός νυκτός και ημέρας εν τοις όρεσι και εν τοις μνήμασιν ην κράζων και κατακόπτων εαυτόν λίθοις
Luke 8:27
- KJV: 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 house but in the tombs
- GK: εξελθόντι δε αυτώ επί την γην υπήντησεν αυτώ ανήρ τις εκ της πόλεως ος είχε δαιμόνια εκ χρόνων ικανών και ιμάτιον ουκ ενεδιδύσκετο και εν οικία ουκ έμενεν αλλ΄ εν τοις μνήμασιν
Luke 23:53
- KJV: And he took it down and wrapped it in linen and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone wherein never man before was laid
- GK: και καθελών αυτό ενετύλιξεν αυτό σινδόνι και έθηκεν αυτό εν μνήματι λαξευτώ ου ουκ ην ουδέπω ουδείς κείμενος
Luke 24:1
- KJV: Now upon the first of the week very early in the morning they came unto the sepulchre bringing the spices which they had prepared and certain with them
- GK: τη δε μιά των σαββάτων όρθρου βαθέως ήλθον επί το μνήμα φέρουσαι α ητοίμασαν αρώματα και τινες συν αυταίς
Acts 2:29
- KJV: Men brethren let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David that he is both dead and buried and his sepulchre is with us unto this day
- GK: άνδρες αδελφοί εξόν ειπείν μετά παρρησίας προς υμάς περί του πατριάρχου Δαβίδ ότι και ετελεύτησε και ετάφη και το μνήμα αυτού εστιν εν ημίν άχρι της ημέρας ταύτης
Acts 7:16
- KJV: And were carried over into Sychem and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor of Sychem
- GK: και μετετέθησαν εις Συχέμ και ετέθησαν εν τω μνήματι ω ωνήσατο Αβραάμ τιμής αργυρίου παρά των υιών Εμμόρ του Συχέμ
Revelation 11:9
- KJV: And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations shall see their dead bodies three days and an half and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves
- GK: και βλέπουσιν εκ των λαών και φυλών και γλωσσών και εθνών τα πτώματα αυτών ημέρας τρεις και ήμισυ και τα πτώματα αυτών ουκ αφήσουσι τεθήναι εις μνήμα