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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H2143

זֵכֶר

zekerzay'-ker

memorial

23 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: zêker

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H2143is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 9 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 15
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H2143

a memento, abstractly recollection (rarely if ever); by implication, commemoration

The King James renders it: memorial, memory, remembrance, scent.

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

zeker is rendered "memorial". It stands 23 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.

  • Eleven of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 3:15God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.
  • The Greek text spells it fifteen different ways.

The first use

God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.

Exodus 3:15זִכְרִ֖י

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Eleven of the word's twenty-three uses are in Psalms.

The other 30 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • memory their5
  • remembrance of3
  • remembrance2
  • to remembrance of2
  • and for memory your1
  • and remembrance of you1
  • and remembrance their1
  • into a memory of1
  • memorial his1
  • memorial its1
  • memorial my1
  • memory his1

and 3 more, 23 uses in all

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.

All 23, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

15 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

  • זֵ֣כֶר5
  • זִכְרָֽם׃4
  • לְזֵ֣כֶר2
  • וְ֝זִכְרְךָ֗1
  • וְזִכְרָ֖ם1
  • וּֽלְזִכְרְךָ֖1
  • זֵ֖כֶר1
  • זִכְר֖וֹ1
  • זִֽכְרוֹ־1
  • זִכְרֽוֹ׃1
  • זִכְרִ֖י1
  • זִכְרְךָ֥1

and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural5HNcmsc/Sp3mp
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)4HNcmsc
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular3HNcmsc/Sp3ms
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HR/Ncmsc
  • noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular2HNcmsc/Sp2ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Ncmsc/Sp2ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HC/Ncmsc/Sp3mp
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsc/Sp2ms
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp1bs

Exodus

two uses
  • God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.

    Exodus 3:15

    • זִכְרִ֖יzikhrinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: memorial my
  • Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

    Exodus 17:14

    • זֵ֣כֶרzekhernoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remembrance of

Deuteronomy

two uses
  • When the LORD your God gives you rest from the enemies around you in the land that He is giving you to possess as an inheritance, you are to blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven. Do not forget!

    Deuteronomy 25:19

    • זֵ֣כֶרzekhernoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remembrance of
  • I would have said that I would cut them to pieces and blot out their memory from mankind,

    Deuteronomy 32:26

    • זִכְרָֽם׃zikhramnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: memory their

Esther

one use
  • These days should be remembered and celebrated by every generation, family, province, and city, so that these days of Purim should not fail to be observed among the Jews, nor should the memory of them fade from their descendants.

    Esther 9:28

    • וְזִכְרָ֖םvezikhramconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and remembrance their

Job

one use
  • The memory of him perishes from the earth, and he has no name in the land.

    Job 18:17

    • זִֽכְרוֹ־zikhrov-noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: memory his

Psalms

eleven uses
  • For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?

    Psalms 6:5

    • זִכְרֶ֑ךָzikhrekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: remembrance of you
  • The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.

    Psalms 9:6

    • זִכְרָ֣םzikhramnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: memory their
  • Sing to the LORD, O you His saints, and praise His holy name.

    Psalms 30:4

    • לְזֵ֣כֶרlezekherpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to remembrance of
  • But the face of the LORD is against those who do evil, to wipe out all memory of them from the earth.

    Psalms 34:16

    • זִכְרָֽם׃zikhramnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: memory their
  • Rejoice in the LORD, you righteous ones, and praise His holy name.

    Psalms 97:12

    • לְזֵ֣כֶרlezekherpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to remembrance of
  • But You, O LORD, sit enthroned forever; Your renown endures to all generations.

    Psalms 102:12

    • וְ֝זִכְרְךָ֗vezikhrekhaconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and remembrance of you
  • May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.

    Psalms 109:15

    • זִכְרָֽם׃zikhramnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: memory their
  • He has caused His wonders to be remembered; the LORD is gracious and compassionate.

    Psalms 111:4

    • זֵ֣כֶרzekhernoun · masculine singulartagged: remembrance
  • Surely he will never be shaken; the righteous man will be remembered forever.

    Psalms 112:6

    • לְזֵ֥כֶרlezekherpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: into a memory of
  • Your name, O LORD, endures forever, Your renown, O LORD, through all generations.

    Psalms 135:13

    • זִכְרְךָ֥zikhrekhanoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: remembrance your
  • They will extol the fame of Your abundant goodness and sing joyfully of Your righteousness.

    Psalms 145:7

    • זֵ֣כֶרzekhernoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remembrance of

Proverbs

one use
  • The memory of the righteous is a blessing, but the name of the wicked will rot.

    Proverbs 10:7

    • זֵ֣כֶרzekhernoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: memory of

Ecclesiastes

one use
  • For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.

    Ecclesiastes 9:5

    • זִכְרָֽם׃zikhramnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: memory their

Isaiah

two uses
  • Yes, we wait for You, O LORD; we walk in the path of Your judgments. Your name and renown are the desire of our souls.

    Isaiah 26:8

    • וּֽלְזִכְרְךָ֖ulezikhrekhaconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and for memory your
  • The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.

    Isaiah 26:14

    • זֵ֖כֶרzekhernoun · masculine singulartagged: remembrance

Hosea

two uses
  • the LORD is the God of Hosts— the LORD is His name of renown.

    Hosea 12:5

    • זִכְרֽוֹ׃zikhronoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: memorial his
  • They will return and dwell in his shade; they will grow grain and blossom like the vine. His renown will be like the wine of Lebanon.

    Hosea 14:7

    • זִכְר֖וֹzikhronoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: memorial its

The letters

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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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