μνημονεύω
to remember
‘to remember’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Tense
- Present
- Ongoing or general action in present time (imperfective aspect).
- Aorist
- Action viewed as a simple whole, without regard to duration — often past (perfective aspect).
Voice
- Active
- The subject performs the action.
Mood
- Imperative
- Expresses a command or request.
- Indicative
- States a fact or asks a factual question (the mood of reality).
- Participle
- A verbal adjective (“writing,” “having written”).
- Infinitive
- A verbal noun (“to write”), unmarked for person or number.
- Subjunctive
- Expresses probability, purpose, or possibility (the mood of contingency).
Case
- Nominative
- The case of the subject (and the predicate nominative).
Person
- 2nd person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 3rd person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one.
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms 10 distinct
- Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Plural 5 times (24%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 2nd person, Plural 4 times (19%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Imperative, 2nd person, Singular 3 times (14%)
- Verb, Aorist, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 2 times (10%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Participle, Nominative, Plural, Masculine 2 times (10%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Plural 1 time (5%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Indicative, 3rd person, Singular 1 time (5%)
- Verb, Present, Active, Infinitive 1 time (5%)
+2 more forms (2 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (Robinson–Tischendorf, public domain), counted across 21 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where G3421 appears — 21 distinct verses across 13 books. 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.
Matthew 1 verse
Mark 1 verse
Luke 1 verse
John 3 verses
- John 15:20 μνημονεύετε pres act impv 2pl Remember the word that I said to you: 'A servant is not greater than his lord.' If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will keep yours also.
- John 16:4 μνημονεύητε pres act subj 2pl But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn't tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
- John 16:21 μνημονεύει pres act ind 3sg A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow, because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn't remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
Acts 2 verses
- Acts 20:31 μνημονεύοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn't cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.
- Acts 20:35 μνημονεύειν pres act inf In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'"
Galatians 1 verse
Ephesians 1 verse
Colossians 1 verse
1 Thessalonians 2 verses
- 1 Thessalonians 1:3 μνημονεύοντες pres act ptcp nom pl masc remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
- 1 Thessalonians 2:9 μνημονεύετε pres act ind 2pl For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Gospel of God.
2 Thessalonians 1 verse
2 Timothy 1 verse
Hebrews 3 verses
- Hebrews 11:15 μνημονεύουσιν pres act ind 3pl If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
- Hebrews 11:22 ἐμνημόνευσεν aor act ind 3sg By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel; and gave instructions concerning his bones.
- Hebrews 13:7 Μνημονεύετε pres act impv 2pl Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
Revelation 3 verses
- Revelation 2:5 μνημόνευε pres act impv 2sg Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lampstand out of its place, unless you repent.
- Revelation 3:3 μνημόνευε pres act impv 2sg Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won't watch, I will come as a thief, and you won't know what hour I will come upon you.
- Revelation 18:5 ἐμνημόνευσεν aor act ind 3sg for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.
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 verb μνημονευω centers on the idea of “to remember.” Its earliest occurrence is Matthew 16:9. Spanning 21 verses in 13 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Greek New Testament. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. Related forms include μνημη, μνημειον and μνημοσυνον. 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 G3421 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 →
- 21
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 21 distinct verses.
- 13 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 13 of 27 New Testament books.
- #607
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Greek words (rank 607 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 21 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- John 3 verses 14%
- Hebrews 3 verses 14%
- Revelation 3 verses 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 21 distinct verses.
- Pauline corpus 7 verses · 33%
- Gospels 6 verses · 29%
- Johannine 6 verses · 29%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 3 verses · 14%
- Hebrews 3 verses · 14%
- Revelation 3 verses · 14%
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 12×
- American Standard Version: Remember 10×
- Berean Standard Bible: Remember 9×, Do you not remember 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Remember 12×, Do you 2×, Remembering 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3421 across 22 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3421 across 20 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3421 across 21 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 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 G3421 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 8 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.
- to be mindful of, to remember, to call to mind
- to make mention of
Word origin
Derived from μνημη (mnḗmē) (G3420) — memory.
From a derivative of G3420 ; to exercise memory that is recollect ; by implication to punish ; also to rehearse : - make mention be mindful remember.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 12 distinct written forms G3421 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 G3421, 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 → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μνημονευω appears 10 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 10 verses in 8 books.
- 10
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 10
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 13:3 μνημονεύω
- 2 Samuel 14:11 μνημονεύω
- 2 Kings 9:25 μνημονεύω
- 1 Chronicles 16:12 μνημονεύω
- Esther 2:1 μνημονεύω
- Psalms 6:6 μνημονεύω
- Proverbs 8:21 μνημονεύω
- Isaiah 43:18 μνημονεύω
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3421) 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.
- Exodus 13:3 μνημονεύω Moses said to the people, "Remember this day, in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from this place. No leavened bread shall be eaten.
- 2 Samuel 14:11 μνημονεύω Then said she, Please let the king remember Yahweh your God, that the avenger of blood destroy not any more, lest they destroy my son. He said, As Yahweh lives, there shall not one hair of your son fall to the earth.
- 2 Kings 9:25 μνημονεύω Then said [Jehu] to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how that, when I and you rode together after Ahab his father, Yahweh laid this burden on him:
- 1 Chronicles 16:12 μνημονεύω Remember his marvelous works that he has done, His wonders, and the judgments of his mouth,
- 1 Chronicles 16:15 μνημονεύω Remember his covenant forever, The word which he commanded to a thousand generations,
- Esther 2:1 μνημονεύω After these things, when the wrath of king Ahasuerus was pacified, he remembered Vashti, and what she had done, and what was decreed against her.
- Psalms 6:6 μνημονεύω I am weary with my groaning; Every night I flood my bed; I drench my couch with my tears.
- Psalms 62:7 μνημονεύω With God is my salvation and my honor. The rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.
- Proverbs 8:21 μνημονεύω That I may give wealth to those who love me. I fill their treasuries.
- Isaiah 43:18 μνημονεύω Don't remember the former things, neither consider the things of old.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3421) 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.
