μνεία
remembrance
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
See every Accusative-case word in the Greek New Testament →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
6 distinct verses where G3417 appears in the Accusative case, across 5 books. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Romans 1 verse
Ephesians 1 verse
1 Thessalonians 2 verses
- 1 Thessalonians 1:2 μνείαν n acc sg fem We always give thanks to God for all of you, mentioning you in our prayers,
- 1 Thessalonians 3:6 μνείαν n acc sg fem But when Timothy came just now to us from you, and brought us glad news of your faith and love, and that you have good memories of us always, longing to see us, even as we also long to see you;
2 Timothy 1 verse
Philemon 1 verse
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.
“remembrance” is the headline sense of the Greek noun μνεια (mneía). Scripture first uses it in Romans 1:9. With 7 verses in 6 books, it is an uncommon word in the Greek New Testament. It concentrates in 1 Thessalonians, which alone accounts for 29% of its uses. From the same root come μναομαι, μιμνησκω and μνημα. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3417 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 →
- 7
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 7 distinct verses.
- 6 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 6 of 27 New Testament books.
- #1,358
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 1,358 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 7 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Thessalonians 2 verses 29%
- Romans 1 verse 14%
- Ephesians 1 verse 14%
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 7 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 7 verses · 100%
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: Mention 4×, Remembrance 3×
- American Standard Version: Mention 4×, Remembrance 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: I remember 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Mention 4×, Remembrance 2×, You 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3417 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3417 across 7 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3417 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3417 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in Thayer's
The 1 sense 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.
- remembrance, memory, mention
Word origin
Derived from μναομαι (mnáomai) (G3415) — to remind.
Forms in the corpus
The 2 distinct written forms G3417 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μνείαν mneían | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Feminine | Romans 1:9 | 6 |
| μνείᾳ mneía | Noun, Dative, Singular, Feminine | Philippians 1:3 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3417, 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
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μνεια appears 10 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 10 verses in 7 books.
- 10
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 10
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Deuteronomy 7:18 μνεία
- Job 14:13 μνεία
- Psalms 110:4 μνεία
- Isaiah 23:16 μνεία
- Jeremiah 38:20 μνεία
- Ezekiel 21:37 μνεία
- Zechariah 13:2 μνεία
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3417) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- Deuteronomy 7:18 μνεία you shall not be afraid of them: you shall well remember what Yahweh your God did to Pharaoh, and to all Egypt;
- Job 14:13 μνεία "Oh that you would hide me in Sheol, That you would keep me secret, until your wrath is past, That you would appoint me a set time, and remember me!
- Psalms 110:4 μνεία Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek."
- Isaiah 23:16 μνεία Take a harp, go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten; make sweet melody, sing many songs, that you may be remembered.
- Isaiah 26:8 μνεία Yes, in the way of your judgments, Yahweh, have we waited for you; to your name, even to your memorial [name], is the desire of our soul.
- Isaiah 32:10 μνεία For days beyond a year shall you be troubled, you careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the harvest shall not come.
- Jeremiah 38:20 μνεία But Jeremiah said, They shall not deliver you. Obey, I beg you, the voice of Yahweh, in that which I speak to you: so it shall be well with you, and your soul shall live.
- Ezekiel 21:37 μνεία
- Ezekiel 25:10 μνεία to the children of the east, [to go] against the children of Ammon; and I will give them for a possession, that the children of Ammon may not be remembered among the nations.
- Zechariah 13:2 μνεία It will come to pass in that day, says Yahweh of Hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they will no more be remembered; and also I will cause the prophets and the spirit of impurity to pass out of the land.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3417) 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.
