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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 - “Listen, my lord, you are an honored prince among us. Choose the finest of our tombs and bury her there. No one here will refuse to help you in this way.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 23:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:9 - to let me buy his cave at Machpelah, down at the end of his field. I will pay the full price in the presence of witnesses, so I will have a permanent burial place for my family.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 35:20

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 35:20 - Jacob set up a stone monument over Rachel’s grave, and it can be seen there to this day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 49:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:30 - This is the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre in Canaan, that Abraham bought from Ephron the Hittite as a permanent burial site.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:5 - Tell him that my father made me swear an oath. He said to me, ‘Listen, I am about to die. Take my body back to the land of Canaan, and bury me in the tomb I prepared for myself.’ So please allow me to go and bury my father. After his burial, I will return without delay.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 50:13

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 50:13 - They carried his body to the land of Canaan and buried him in the cave in the field of Machpelah, near Mamre. This is the cave that Abraham had bought as a permanent burial site from Ephron the Hittite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:3 - but I replied, “Long live the king! How can I not be sad? For the city where my ancestors are buried is in ruins, and the gates have been destroyed by fire.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 2:5

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 2:5 - I replied, “If it please the king, and if you are pleased with me, your servant, send me to Judah to rebuild the city where my ancestors are buried.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:16

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:16 - “Who do you think you are,
and what are you doing here,
building a beautiful tomb for yourself—
a monument high up in the rock?

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 26:19

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:19 - But those who die in the LORD will live;
their bodies will rise again!
Those who sleep in the earth
will rise up and sing for joy!
For your life-giving light will fall like dew
on your people in the place of the dead!

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Unchecked Copy Box Eze 39:11

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 39:11 - “And I will make a vast graveyard for Gog and his hordes in the Valley of the Travelers, east of the Dead Sea.[fn] It will block the way of those who travel there, and they will change the name of the place to the Valley of Gog’s Hordes.
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