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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 Box Gen 23:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:6 - “Hear us, my lord, you are a [fn]mighty prince among us; bury your dead in the choicest of our burial sites; none of us will refuse you his burial sites for burying your dead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:9 - that he may give me the cave of Machpelah which belongs to him, which is at the end of his field; for the full price let him give it to me in [fn]your presence as a possession for a burial site.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:20 - And Jacob set up a pillar over her grave; that is the pillar of Rachel’s grave 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 of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought along with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a possession for a burial site.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:5 - ‘My father made me swear, saying, “Behold, I am about to die; in my grave which I dug for myself in the land of Canaan, there you shall bury me.” So now, please let me go up and bury my father; then I will return.’”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - Indeed, his sons carried him to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre, which Abraham had bought along with the field for his possession as a burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

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

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:5 - I said to the king, “If it is good for the king, and if your servant is good before you, send me to Judah, to the city of my fathers’ tombs, that I may rebuild it.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:16 -

‘What right do you have here,

And whom do you have here,

That you have hewn a tomb for yourself here,

You who hew a tomb on the height,

You who carve a dwelling place for [fn]yourself in the cliff?

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:19 -

Your dead will live;

[fn]Their corpses will rise.

You who dwell in the dust, awake and shout for joy,

For your dew is as the dew of the [fn]dawn,

And the earth will [fn]give birth to the [fn]departed spirits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:11 -

“And it will be in that day, that I will give Gog a burial ground there in Israel, the valley of those who pass by east of the sea, and it will block off those who would pass by. So they will bury Gog there with all his multitude, and they will call it the valley of [fn]Hamon-gog.

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