μνήμη
memory
‘memory’ is one of 2 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
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Case
- Accusative
- The case of the direct object and of extent.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3420 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. 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.
2 Peter 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.
“memory” is the headline sense of the Greek noun μνημη (mnḗmē). It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Greek New Testament. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in 2 Peter. Found nowhere else but 2 Peter 1:15. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3420 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 →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 1 of 27 New Testament books.
- #3,503
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Greek words (rank 3,503 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Peter 1 verse 100%
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 1 distinct verse.
- General (Catholic) Epistles 1 verse · 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: Remembrance 1×
- American Standard Version: Remembrance 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Be able to recall 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Remembrance 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3420 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3420 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3420 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3420 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
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.
- memory, remembrance
- mention: to remember a thing, call to remembrance
Word origin
Derived from μιμνησκω (mimnḗskō) (G3403) — to remind.
From G3403 ; memory : - remembrance.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G3420, 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
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μνημη appears 9 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 8 verses in 3 books.
- 9
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 8
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Psalms 29:5 μνήμη
- Proverbs 1:12 μνήμη
- Ecclesiastes 1:11 μνήμη
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3420) 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.
- Psalms 29:5 μνήμη The voice of Yahweh breaks the cedars. Yes, Yahweh breaks in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
- Psalms 96:12 μνήμη Let the field and all that is in it exult! Then all the trees of the woods shall sing for joy
- Psalms 144:7 μνήμη Stretch out your hand from above, Rescue me, and deliver me out of great waters, Out of the hands of foreigners;
- Proverbs 1:12 μνήμη Let's swallow them up alive like Sheol, And whole, like those who go down into the pit.
- Proverbs 10:7 μνήμη The memory of the righteous is blessed, But the name of the wicked will rot.
- Ecclesiastes 1:11 μνήμη There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.
- Ecclesiastes 2:16 μνήμη For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!
- Ecclesiastes 9:5 μνήμη For the living know that they will die, but the dead don't know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3420) 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.
