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Lexicon :: Strong's G3419 - mnēmeion

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μνημεῖον
Transliteration
mnēmeion (Key)
Pronunciation
mnay-mi'-on
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Part of Speech
neuter noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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Vine's Expository Dictionary: View Entry

TDNT Reference: 4:680,596

Strong’s Definitions

μνημεῖον mnēmeîon, mnay-mi'-on; from G3420; a remembrance, i.e. cenotaph (place of interment):—grave, sepulchre, tomb.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 42x

The KJV translates Strong's G3419 in the following manner: sepulchre (29x), grave (8x), tomb (5x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 42x
The KJV translates Strong's G3419 in the following manner: sepulchre (29x), grave (8x), tomb (5x).

  1. any visible object for preserving or recalling the memory of any person or thing

    1. a memorial, monument, specifically, a sepulchral monument

  2. a sepulchre, a tomb

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
μνημεῖον mnēmeîon, mnay-mi'-on; from G3420; a remembrance, i.e. cenotaph (place of interment):—grave, sepulchre, tomb.
STRONGS G3419:
μνημεῖον, μνημείου, τό;
1. "any visible object for preserving or recalling the memory of any person or thing; a memorial, monument" (Aeschylus, Pindar, Sophocles, and following); in Biblical Greek so in Wis. 10:7; specifically, a sepulchral monument: οἰκοδομεῖν μνημεῖα, Luke 11:47; Josephus, Antiquities 13, 6, 5.
2. in the Scriptures a sepulchre, tomb: Matthew 23:29; Matthew 27:52, 60; Matthew 28:8; Mark 5:2; Mark 6:29; Luke 11:44; John 5:28; John 11:17, 31, and often in the Gospels; Acts 13:29; the Sept. for קֶבֶר, Genesis 23:6, 9; Genesis 50:5; Isaiah 22:16, etc.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Genesis
23:6; 23:9; 50:5
Isaiah
22:16
Matthew
23:29; 27:52; 27:60; 28:8
Mark
5:2; 6:29
Luke
11:44; 11:47
John
5:28; 11:17; 11:31
Acts
13:29

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G3419 matches the Greek μνημεῖον (mnēmeion),
which occurs 14 times in 11 verses in the LXX Greek.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:6 - “Hear us, my lord; you are a prince of God[fn] among us. Bury your dead in the choicest of our tombs. None of us will withhold from you his tomb to hinder you from burying your dead.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:9 - that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he owns; it is at the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in your presence as property for a burying place.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:20 - and Jacob set up a pillar over her tomb. It is the pillar of Rachel’s tomb, which is there to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:30 - in the cave that is in the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:5 - ‘My father made me swear, saying, “I am about to die: in my tomb that I hewed out for myself in the land of Canaan, there shall you bury me.” Now therefore, let me please go up and bury my father. Then I will return.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - for his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field at Machpelah, to the east of Mamre, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite to possess as a burying place.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:3 - I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why should not my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ graves, lies in ruins, and its gates have been destroyed by fire?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:5 - And I said to the king, “If it pleases the king, and if your servant has found favor in your sight, that you send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ graves, that I may rebuild it.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:16 - What have you to do here, and whom have you here, that you have cut out here a tomb for yourself, you who cut out a tomb on the height and carve a dwelling for yourself in the rock?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:19 - Your dead shall live; their bodies shall rise.
You who dwell in the dust, awake and sing for joy!
For your dew is a dew of light,
and the earth will give birth to the dead.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:11 - “On that day I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the Valley of the Travelers, east of the sea. It will block the travelers, for there Gog and all his multitude will be buried. It will be called the Valley of Hamon-gog.[fn]
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