Greek noun (neuter) · G3418
μνῆμα
mnemamnay'-mah
a memorial.; a sepulchral monument, a sepulchre, tomb
8 uses in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mnēma
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G3418is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 27New Testament books
- 3spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · G3418
a memorial, i.e. sepulchral monument (burial-place)
The King James renders it: grave, sepulchre, tomb.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
mnema is rendered "a memorial.; a sepulchral monument, a sepulchre, tomb". It stands 8 times in the Greek text, across four books.
- Three of the uses stand in Luke, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "a memorial.".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Mark 5:3This man had been living in the tombs and could no longer be restrained, even with chains.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
This man had been living in the tombs and could no longer be restrained, even with chains.
Mark 5:3μνήμασιν
The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's eight uses are in Luke.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: a memorial., and a sepulchral monument, a sepulchre, tomb.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| a memorial. | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereMark 5:3This man had been living in the tombs and could no longer be restrained, even with chains. |
| a sepulchral monument, a sepulchre, tombMrk.5:3, 5 15:46 16:2 (WH, μνημεῖον), Luk.8:27 23:53 24:1, Act.2:29 7:16, Rev.11:9.† | Tagged as
| WhereMark 5:3This man had been living in the tombs and could no longer be restrained, even with chains. |
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μνημεῖον | mnemeion | grave | Uses40 |
| μνημονεύω | mnemoneuo | to remember | Uses21 |
| μνημόσυνον | mnemosynon | memorial | Uses3 |
| μνήμη | mneme | remembrance | Uses1 |
All 8, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- μνῆμα3
- μνήμασιν3
- μνήματι2
The grammar of each form
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter plural3N-DPN
- noun · accusative (object) · neuter singular2N-ASN
- noun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singular2N-DSN
- noun · nominative (subject) · neuter singular1N-NSN
Mark
two uses
This man had been living in the tombs and could no longer be restrained, even with chains.
- μνήμασινmnemasinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: tombs
Night and day in the tombs and in the mountains he kept crying out and cutting himself with stones.
- μνήμασινmnemasinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: tombs
Luke
three uses
When Jesus stepped ashore, He was met by a demon-possessed man from the town. For a long time this man had not worn clothing or lived in a house, but he stayed in the tombs.
- μνήμασινmnemasinnoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter pluraltagged: tombs
Then he took it down, wrapped it in a linen cloth, and placed it in a tomb cut into the rock, where no one had yet been laid.
- μνήματιmnematinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: a tomb
On the first day of the week, very early in the morning, the women came to the tomb, bringing the spices they had prepared.
- μνῆμαmnemanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: tomb
Acts
two uses
Brothers, I can tell you with confidence that the patriarch David died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.
- μνῆμαmnemanoun · nominative (subject) · neuter singulartagged: tomb
Their bones were carried back to Shechem and placed in the tomb that Abraham had bought from the sons of Hamor at Shechem for a price he paid in silver.
- μνήματιmnematinoun · dative (“to / for”) · neuter singulartagged: tomb
Revelation
one use
For three and a half days all peoples and tribes and tongues and nations will view their bodies and will not permit them to be laid in a tomb.
- μνῆμαmnemanoun · accusative (object) · neuter singulartagged: a tomb
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.