μιμνήσκω
to remind
‘to remind’ is one of 4 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
- Future
- Action expected in future time.
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Perfect
- A completed past action with continuing present results.
Voice
- Passive
- The subject receives the action.
- Middle or Passive deponent
- Middle/passive in form but active in meaning.
Mood
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3403 appears in the Book of Acts — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Acts
- Acts 10:31 ἐμνήσθησαν aor pass ind 3pl and said, 'Cornelius, your prayer is heard, and your gifts to the needy are remembered in the sight of God.
- Acts 11:16 ἐμνήσθην aor pass ind 1sg I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, 'John indeed baptized in water, but you will be baptized in the Holy Spirit.'
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, μιμνησκω (mimnḗskō) means “to remind.” Ranging over 4 senses, it is not a single-sense word. It appears 23 verses across 10 books of the Greek New Testament, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Luke (26%), then Hebrews and Matthew. Scripture first uses it in Matthew 5:23. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3403 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 23
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 23 distinct verses.
- 10 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 10 of 27 New Testament books.
- #563
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 563 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 23 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 23 distinct verses.
- Gospels 12 verses · 52%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 8 verses · 35%
- Johannine 4 verses · 17%
- Hebrews 4 verses · 17%
- Pauline corpus 2 verses · 9%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 2 verses · 9%
- Revelation 1 verse · 4%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Remember 1×, Thou art mindful 1×
- American Standard Version: Remember 1×, Thou art mindful 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Remember 7×, Remembered 4×, Recalling 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Remember 10×, Remembered 3×, You remember 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3403 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3403 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3403 across 23 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3403 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 4 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to be recalled or to return to one's mind, to remind one's self of, to remember
- to be recalled to mind, to be remembered, had in remembrance
- to remember a thing
- be mindful of
Word origin
Derived from μναομαι (mnáomai) (G3415) — to remind.
A prolonged form of G3415 (from which some of the tenses are borrowed); to remind that is (middle voice) to recall to mind : - be mindful remember.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 15 distinct written forms G3403 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that tense’s occurrences in the concordance.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3403, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μιμνησκω appears 184 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 179 verses in 30 books.
- 184
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 179
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 30 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 30 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 8:1 μιμνήσκω
- Exodus 2:24 μιμνήσκω
- Leviticus 26:42 μιμνήσκω
- Numbers 11:5 μιμνήσκω
- Deuteronomy 5:15 μιμνήσκω
- Joshua 1:13 μιμνήσκω
- Judges 8:34 μιμνήσκω
- 1 Samuel 1:11 μιμνήσκω
- 2 Samuel 19:20 μιμνήσκω
- 2 Kings 20:3 μιμνήσκω
- 2 Chronicles 6:42 μιμνήσκω
- Ezra 11:8 μιμνήσκω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3403) appears in the Greek Septuagint — showing the first 50 of 179. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Genesis 8:1 μιμνήσκω God remembered Noah, all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; and God made a wind to pass over the earth. The waters subsided.
- Genesis 9:15 μιμνήσκω and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh, and the waters will no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.
- Genesis 9:16 μιμνήσκω The rainbow will be in the cloud. I will look at it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is on the earth."
- Genesis 19:29 μιμνήσκω It happened, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in which Lot lived.
- Genesis 30:22 μιμνήσκω God remembered Rachel, and God listened to her, and opened her womb.
- Genesis 40:13 μιμνήσκω Within three more days, Pharaoh will lift up your head, and restore you to your office. You will give Pharaoh's cup into his hand, the way you did when you were his cupbearer.
- Genesis 40:14 μιμνήσκω But remember me when it will be well with you, and show kindness, please, to me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house.
- Genesis 40:20 μιμνήσκω It happened the third day, which was Pharaoh's birthday, that he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief cupbearer and the head of the chief baker among his servants.
- Genesis 40:23 μιμνήσκω Yet the chief cupbearer didn't remember Joseph, but forgot him.
- Genesis 42:9 μιμνήσκω Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land."
- Exodus 2:24 μιμνήσκω God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob.
- Exodus 6:5 μιμνήσκω Moreover I have heard the groaning of the children of Israel, whom the Egyptians keep in bondage, and I have remembered my covenant.
- Exodus 20:8 μιμνήσκω "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy.
- Exodus 32:13 μιμνήσκω Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you swore by your own self, and said to them, 'I will multiply your seed as the stars of the sky, and all this land that I have spoken of I will give to your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.'"
- Leviticus 26:42 μιμνήσκω then I will remember my covenant with Jacob; and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham; and I will remember the land.
- Leviticus 26:45 μιμνήσκω but I will for their sake remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God. I am Yahweh.'"
- Numbers 11:5 μιμνήσκω We remember the fish, which we ate in Egypt for nothing; the cucumbers, and the melons, and the leeks, and the onions, and the garlic:
- Numbers 15:39 μιμνήσκω and it shall be to you for a fringe, that you may look on it, and remember all the commandments of Yahweh, and do them; and that you not follow after your own heart and your own eyes, after which you use to play the prostitute;
- Numbers 15:40 μιμνήσκω that you may remember and do all my commandments, and be holy to your God.
- Deuteronomy 5:15 μιμνήσκω You shall remember that you were a servant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God brought you out of there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm: therefore Yahweh your God commanded you to keep the Sabbath day.
- Deuteronomy 7:18 μιμνήσκω you shall not be afraid of them: you shall well remember what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;
- Deuteronomy 8:2 μιμνήσκω You shall remember all the way which Yahweh your God has led you these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you, to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep his commandments, or not.
- Deuteronomy 8:18 μιμνήσκω But you shall remember Yahweh your God, for it is he who gives you power to get wealth; that he may establish his covenant which he swore to your fathers, as at this day.
- Deuteronomy 9:7 μιμνήσκω Remember, don't forget, how you provoked Yahweh your God to wrath in the wilderness: from the day that you went forth out of the land of Egypt, until you came to this place, you have been rebellious against Yahweh.
- Deuteronomy 9:27 μιμνήσκω Remember your servants, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; don't look to the stubbornness of this people, nor to their wickedness, nor to their sin,
- Deuteronomy 15:15 μιμνήσκω You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you: therefore I command you this thing today.
- Deuteronomy 16:3 μιμνήσκω You shall eat no leavened bread with it; seven days shall you eat unleavened bread therewith, even the bread of affliction; for you came forth out of the land of Egypt in haste: that you may remember the day when you came forth out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.
- Deuteronomy 16:12 μιμνήσκω You shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt: and you shall observe and do these statutes.
- Deuteronomy 24:9 μιμνήσκω Remember what Yahweh your God did to Miriam, by the way as you came forth out of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 24:18 μιμνήσκω but you shall remember that you were a bondservant in Egypt, and Yahweh your God redeemed you there: therefore I command you to do this thing.
- Deuteronomy 24:20 μιμνήσκω When you beat your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the foreigner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.
- Deuteronomy 24:22 μιμνήσκω You shall remember that you were a bondservant in the land of Egypt: therefore I command you to do this thing.
- Deuteronomy 25:17 μιμνήσκω Remember what Amalek did to you by the way as you came forth out of Egypt;
- Deuteronomy 32:7 μιμνήσκω Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations: Ask your father, and he will show you; Your elders, and they will tell you.
- Joshua 1:13 μιμνήσκω Remember the word which Moses the servant of Yahweh commanded you, saying, Yahweh your God gives you rest, and will give you this land.
- Judges 8:34 μιμνήσκω The children of Israel didn't remember Yahweh their God, who had delivered them out of the hand of all their enemies on every side;
- Judges 9:2 μιμνήσκω Please speak in the ears of all the men of Shechem, Whether is better for you, that all the sons of Jerubbaal, who are seventy persons, rule over you, or that one rule over you? Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh.
- Judges 16:28 μιμνήσκω Samson called to Yahweh, and said, Lord Yahweh, remember me, Please, and strengthen me, Please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
- 1 Samuel 1:11 μιμνήσκω She vowed a vow, and said, Yahweh of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a man-child, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come on his head.
- 1 Samuel 1:19 μιμνήσκω They rose up in the morning early, and worshiped before Yahweh, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Yahweh remembered her.
- 1 Samuel 4:18 μιμνήσκω It happened, when he made mention of the ark of God, that [Eli] fell from off his seat backward by the side of the gate; and his neck broke, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. He had judged Israel forty years.
- 1 Samuel 25:31 μιμνήσκω that this shall be no grief to you, nor offense of heart to my lord, either that you have shed blood without cause, or that my lord has avenged himself. When Yahweh shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember your handmaid.
- 2 Samuel 19:20 μιμνήσκω For your servant does know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.
- 2 Kings 20:3 μιμνήσκω Remember now, Yahweh, I beg you, how I have walked before you in truth and with a perfect heart, and have done that which is good in your sight. Hezekiah wept sore.
- 2 Chronicles 6:42 μιμνήσκω Yahweh God, don't turn away the face of your anointed: remember [your] loving kindnesses to David your servant.
- 2 Chronicles 24:22 μιμνήσκω Thus Joash the king didn't remember the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but killed his son. When he died, he said, Yahweh look on it, and require it.
- Ezra 11:8 μιμνήσκω
- Ezra 14:8 μιμνήσκω
- Ezra 15:19 μιμνήσκω
- Ezra 16:14 μιμνήσκω
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3403) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
