μνημεῖον
memorial
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Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
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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.
- Genitive
- The case of source, possession, or “of” — answers “whose / from what.”
- Dative
- The case of the indirect object, means, or location — “to / for / with / in.”
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Gender
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one.
3 verses where G3419 appears in the Dative case in the Book of John. 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.
John
- John 5:28 μνημείοις n dat pl neut Don't marvel at this, for the hour comes, in which all that are in the tombs will hear his voice,
- John 11:17 μνημείῳ n dat sg neut So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.
- John 20:11 μνημείῳ μνημεῖον n dat sg neut n acc sg neut But Mary was standing outside at the tomb weeping. So, as she wept, she stooped and looked into the tomb,
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.
The Greek noun μνημειον centers on the idea of “memorial.” Its English rendering has broadened — “sepulchre” classically, “tomb” (Berean Standard Bible) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. The Greek New Testament uses it across 34 verses — moderately common. John dominates its distribution — 14 of 34 verses. Thayer's distinguishes 2 senses for it. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3419 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 →
- 34
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 34 distinct verses.
- 5 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 5 of 27 New Testament books.
- #397
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Greek words (rank 397 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 34 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 34 distinct verses.
- Gospels 33 verses · 97%
- Johannine 14 verses · 41%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 8 verses · 24%
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: Sepulchre 26×, Grave 4×, Graves 4×
- American Standard Version: Tomb 32×, Tombs 10×
- Berean Standard Bible: Tomb 31×, Tombs 5×, Graves 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Tomb 31×, Tombs 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3419 across 42 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3419 across 42 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3419 across 39 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3419 across 40 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 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 2 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.
- any visible object for preserving or recalling the memory of any person or thing
- a sepulchre, a tomb
Word origin
Derived from μνημη (mnḗmē) (G3420) — memory.
From G3420 ; a remembrance that is cenotaph ( place of interment ): - grave sepulchre tomb.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 6 distinct written forms G3419 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| μνημεῖον mnēmeîon | Noun, Accusative, Singular, Neuter | Mark 16:5 | 15 |
| μνημείου mnēmeíou | Noun, Genitive, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 27:60 | 10 |
| μνημεῖα mnēmeîa | Noun, Accusative, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 23:29 | 4 |
| μνημείῳ mnēmeíō | Noun, Dative, Singular, Neuter | Matthew 27:60 | 4 |
| μνημείων mnēmeíōn | Noun, Genitive, Plural, Neuter | Matthew 8:28 | 3 |
| μνημείοις mnēmeíois | Noun, Dative, Plural, Neuter | John 5:28 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3419, 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
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Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μνημειον appears 14 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 11 verses in 4 books.
- 14
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 11
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Genesis 23:6 μνημεῖον
- Ezra 12:3 μνημεῖον
- Isaiah 22:16 μνημεῖον
- Ezekiel 39:11 μνημεῖον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3419) 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.
- Genesis 23:6 μνημεῖον "Hear us, my lord. You are a prince of God among us. In the choice of our tombs bury your dead. None of us will withhold from you his tomb, but that you may bury your dead."
- Genesis 23:9 μνημεῖον that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he has, which is in the end of his field. For the full price let him give it to me in the midst of you for a possession of a burying-place."
- Genesis 35:20 μνημεῖον Jacob set up a pillar on her grave. The same is the Pillar of Rachel's grave to this day.
- Genesis 49:30 μνημεῖον in the cave that is in the field of Machpelah, which is before Mamre, in the land of Canaan, which Abraham bought with the field from Ephron the Hittite as a burial place.
- Genesis 50:5 μνημεῖον 'My father made me swear, saying, "Behold, I am dying. Bury me in my grave which I have dug for myself in the land of Canaan." Now therefore, please let me go up and bury my father, and I will come again.'"
- Genesis 50:13 μνημεῖον for his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field, for a possession of a burying-place, from Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.
- Ezra 12:3 μνημεῖον
- Ezra 12:5 μνημεῖον
- Isaiah 22:16 μνημεῖον "What are you doing here? and who has you here, that you have hewed out a tomb here? Cutting him out a tomb on high, chiseling a habitation for himself in the rock!"
- Isaiah 26:19 μνημεῖον Your dead shall live; my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust; for your dew is [as] the dew of herbs, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.
- Ezekiel 39:11 μνημεῖον It shall happen in that day, that I will give to Gog a place for burial in Israel, the valley of those who pass through on the east of the sea; and it shall stop those who pass through: and there shall they bury Gog and all his multitude; and they shall call it The valley of Hamon Gog.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3419) 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.
