μνημόσυνον
memorial
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
- Neuter
- Grammatically neuter.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where G3422 appears — 3 distinct verses across 3 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
Acts 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.
μνημοσυνον (mnēmósynon) is a Greek noun most often rendered “memorial.” With only 3 verses it sits in the long tail of Greek New Testament vocabulary. Matthew dominates its distribution — 1 of 3 verses. It first appears in Matthew 26:13. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G3422 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 3 of 27 New Testament books.
- #2,203
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Greek words (rank 2,203 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 3 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 3 distinct verses.
- Gospels 2 verses · 67%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 1 verse · 33%
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: Memorial 3×
- American Standard Version: Memorial 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Memorial 1×, Memory 1×, Memory of 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Remembrance 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G3422 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G3422 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G3422 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G3422 across 3 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.
- a memorial (that by which the memory of any person or thing is preserved), a remembrance
Word origin
Derived from μνημονευω (mnēmoneúō) (G3421) — to remember.
From G3421 ; a reminder ( memorandum ) that is record : - memorial.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word μνημοσυνον appears 44 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 42 verses in 12 books.
- 44
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 42
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- Exodus 3:15 μνημόσυνον
- Leviticus 2:2 μνημόσυνον
- Numbers 5:15 μνημόσυνον
- Deuteronomy 32:26 μνημόσυνον
- Joshua 4:7 μνημόσυνον
- Ezra 12:20 μνημόσυνον
- Esther 2:23 μνημόσυνον
- Job 2:9 μνημόσυνον
- Psalms 9:7 μνημόσυνον
- Isaiah 23:18 μνημόσυνον
- Hosea 12:6 μνημόσυνον
- Malachi 3:16 μνημόσυνον
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G3422) 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 3:15 μνημόσυνον God said moreover to Moses, "You shall tell the children of Israel this, 'Yahweh, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, has sent me to you.' This is my name forever, and this is my memorial to all generations.
- Exodus 12:14 μνημόσυνον This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
- Exodus 13:9 μνημόσυνον It shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of Yahweh may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.
- Exodus 17:14 μνημόσυνον Yahweh said to Moses, "Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under the sky."
- Exodus 28:12 μνημόσυνον You shall put the two stones on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before Yahweh on his two shoulders for a memorial.
- Exodus 28:29 μνημόσυνον Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment on his heart, when he goes in to the holy place, for a memorial before Yahweh continually.
- Exodus 30:16 μνημόσυνον You shall take the atonement money from the children of Israel, and shall appoint it for the service of the tent of meeting; that it may be a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh, to make atonement for your souls."
- Exodus 36:14 μνημόσυνον He made curtains of goats' hair for a covering over the tent. He made them eleven curtains.
- Leviticus 2:2 μνημόσυνον He shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests; and he shall take his handful of its fine flour, and of its oil, with all its frankincense; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 2:9 μνημόσυνον The priest shall take from the meal offering its memorial, and shall burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 2:16 μνημόσυνον The priest shall burn as its memorial, part of its bruised grain, and part of its oil, along with all its frankincense: it is an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 5:12 μνημόσυνον He shall bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it as the memorial portion, and burn it on the altar, on the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. It is a sin offering.
- Leviticus 6:8 μνημόσυνον Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
- Leviticus 23:24 μνημόσυνον "Speak to the children of Israel, saying, 'In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, shall be a solemn rest to you, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, a holy convocation.
- Numbers 5:15 μνημόσυνον then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and shall bring her offering for her: the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal. He shall pour no oil on it, nor put frankincense on it, for it is a meal offering of jealousy, a meal offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to memory.
- Numbers 5:18 μνημόσυνον The priest shall set the woman before Yahweh, and let the hair of the woman's head go loose, and put the meal offering of memorial in her hands, which is the meal offering of jealousy. The priest shall have in his hand the water of bitterness that brings a curse.
- Numbers 5:26 μνημόσυνον The priest shall take a handful of the meal offering, as the memorial of it, and burn it on the altar, and afterward shall make the woman drink the water.
- Numbers 17:5 μνημόσυνον It shall happen, that the rod of the man whom I shall choose shall bud: and I will make to cease from me the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against you.
- Numbers 31:54 μνημόσυνον Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting, for a memorial for the children of Israel before Yahweh.
- Deuteronomy 32:26 μνημόσυνον I said, I would scatter them afar, I would make the memory of them to cease from among men;
- Joshua 4:7 μνημόσυνον then you shall tell them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of Yahweh; when it passed over the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial to the children of Israel forever.
- Ezra 12:20 μνημόσυνον
- Esther 2:23 μνημόσυνον When inquisition was made of the matter, and it was found to be so, they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written in the book of the chronicles before the king.
- Esther 6:1 μνημόσυνον On that night the king couldn't sleep; and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles, and they were read before the king.
- Esther 9:27 μνημόσυνον the Jews ordained, and took on them, and on their seed, and on all such as joined themselves to them, so that it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to the writing of it, and according to the appointed time of it, every year;
- Esther 9:28 μνημόσυνον and that these days should be remembered and kept throughout every generation, every family, every province, and every city; and that these days of Purim should not fail from among the Jews, nor the memory of them perish from their seed.
- Esther 9:32 μνημόσυνον The commandment of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.
- Esther 10:2 μνημόσυνον All the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, aren't they written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?
- Job 2:9 μνημόσυνον Then his wife said to him, "Do you still maintain your integrity? Renounce God, and die."
- Job 18:17 μνημόσυνον His memory shall perish from the earth. He shall have no name in the street.
- Psalms 9:7 μνημόσυνον But Yahweh reigns forever. He has prepared his throne for judgment.
- Psalms 33:17 μνημόσυνον A horse is a vain thing for safety, Neither does he deliver any by his great power.
- Psalms 101:13 μνημόσυνον
- Psalms 108:15 μνημόσυνον
- Psalms 111:6 μνημόσυνον He has shown his people the power of his works, In giving them the heritage of the nations.
- Psalms 134:13 μνημόσυνον
- Isaiah 23:18 μνημόσυνον Her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to Yahweh: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for those who dwell before Yahweh, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.
- Isaiah 57:8 μνημόσυνον Behind the doors and the posts have you set up your memorial: for you have uncovered [yourself] to another than me, and are gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and made you a covenant with them: you loved their bed where you saw it.
- Isaiah 66:3 μνημόσυνον He who kills an ox is as he who kills a man; he who sacrifices a lamb, as he who breaks a dog's neck; he who offers an offering, [as he who offers] pig's blood; he who burns frankincense, as he who blesses an idol. Yes, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delights in their abominations:
- Hosea 12:6 μνημόσυνον Therefore turn to your God. Keep kindness and justice, And wait for your God continually.
- Hosea 14:8 μνημόσυνον Ephraim, what have I to do any more with idols? I answer, and will take care of him. I am like a green fir tree; From me your fruit is found."
- Malachi 3:16 μνημόσυνον Then those who feared Yahweh spoke one with another; and Yahweh listened, and heard, and a book of memory was written before him, for those who feared Yahweh, and who honored his name.
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G3422) 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.
