Lexicon mnéma: a memorial, a sepulcher Original Word: μνῆμα, ατος, τόPart of Speech: Noun, Neuter Transliteration: mnéma Phonetic Spelling: (mnay'-mah) Short Definition: a tomb, monument Definition: a tomb, monument, memorial. HELPS word-Studies Cognate: 3418 mnḗma (a neuter noun derived from 3415 /mnáomai, "to remember") – the generic term for "tomb." 3418 /mnḗma ("tomb") is simply an identifiable sepulcher (the resting place of an individual). NAS Exhaustive Concordance Word Originfrom mnaomai (in the sense of to be mindful of) Definitiona memorial, a sepulcher NASB Translationtomb (7), tombs (3).
Thayer's STRONGS NT 3418: μνῆμαμνῆμα, μνήματος, τό ( μνάομαι, perfect passive μέμνημαι); 1. a monument or memorial to perpetuate the memory of any person or thing (Homer, Pindar, Sophocles, others). 2. a sepulchral monument (Homer, Euripides, Xenophon, Plato, others). 3. a sepulchre or tomb (receptacle where a dead body is deposited (cf. Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, ii., 316f)): Mark 5:3 G L T Tr WH; ; ( T WH); Luke 8:27; Luke 23:53; Luke 24:1; Acts 2:29; Acts 7:16; Revelation 11:9 (Josephus, Antiquities 7, 1, 3; the Sept. for קֶבֶר).
Strong's grave, sepulcher, tomb. From mnaomai; a memorial, i.e. Sepulchral monument (burial-place) -- grave, sepulchre, tomb. see GREEK mnaomai |
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