זִכָּרוֹן
memorial
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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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.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 18 times (75%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 4 times (17%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 1 time (4%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (4%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 24 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H2146 appears — 22 distinct verses across 11 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 Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Exodus 7 verses
- Exodus 12:14 לְ/זִכָּר֔וֹן prep + n c ms 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 וּ/לְ/זִכָּרוֹן֙ conj + prep + n c ms 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 זִכָּרוֹן֙ n c ms 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 זִכָּרֹ֖ן לְ/זִכָּרֹֽן n c ms prep + n c ms 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 לְ/זִכָּרֹ֥ן prep + n c ms 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 לְ/זִכָּרוֹן֙ prep + n c ms 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 39:7 זִכָּר֖וֹן n c ms He put them on the shoulder-pieces of the ephod, to be stones of memorial for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.
Leviticus 1 verse
Numbers 5 verses
- Numbers 5:15 זִכָּר֖וֹן n c ms 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 הַ/זִּכָּר֔וֹן ptcl def.art + n c ms 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 10:10 לְ/זִכָּרוֹן֙ prep + n c ms Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace-offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God: I am Yahweh your God.
- Numbers 16:40 זִכָּר֞וֹן n c ms to be a memorial to the children of Israel, to the end that no stranger, who isn't of the seed of Aaron, comes near to burn incense before Yahweh; that he not be as Korah, and as his company: as Yahweh spoke to him by Moses.
- Numbers 31:54 זִכָּר֥וֹן n c ms 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.
Joshua 1 verse
Nehemiah 1 verse
Esther 1 verse
Job 1 verse
Ecclesiastes 2 verses
- Ecclesiastes 1:11 זִכְר֖וֹן זִכָּר֔וֹן n c ms cs n c ms 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 זִכְר֧וֹן n c ms cs 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!
Isaiah 1 verse
Zechariah 1 verse
Malachi 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.
At its core, זכרון (zikrôwn) means “memorial.” First canonically at Exodus 12:14, it enters the text early. It appears 22 verses across 11 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Exodus (32%), then Numbers and Ecclesiastes. It shares a root with זכר, אזכרה and זכור. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2146 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 22
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 22 distinct verses.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,327
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,327 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 22 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Exodus 7 verses 32%
- Numbers 5 verses 23%
- Ecclesiastes 2 verses 9%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 22 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 13 verses · 59%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 5 verses · 23%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 18%
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 11×, Is no remembrance 2×, Remembrance 2×
- American Standard Version: Memorial 11×, Is no remembrance 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Memorial 11×, Reminder 4×, Remembrance 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Memorial 11×, Reminder 5×, Memory 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2146 across 24 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2146 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 11 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 H2146 across 24 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 H2146 across 25 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 6 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. memorial, reminder:
- a. memorial-day Ex 12:14 (P). e.g. Exodus 12:14
- b. memorial-usage Ex 13:9 (JE). e.g. Exodus 13:9
- c. memorial-objects, altar-plates Nu 17:5 (P); stones in Jordan Jos 4:7 (JE); crowns in temple Zc 6:14; ז׳ in Is 57:8 is symbol of strange god (Di), or perhaps phallus-image, as sign of harlot (Che), cf. > Du (who proposes זְכָרוֹן, from זָכָר). e.g. Numbers 17:5
- d. memorial-record; in a book Ex 17:14 (E); cf. סֵפֶר זִכָּרוֹן Mal 3:16, ס׳ הַזִּכְרֹנות דברי הימים Est 6:1; memorial, as proof of citizenship Ne 2:20 (‖ חֵלֶק, צְדָקָה); reminder of Israel, לִפְנֵי י׳, of כֶּסֶף הַכִּפֻּרִים Ex 30:16; spoils of war Nu 31:54; inscribed stones of ephod Ex 28:12, 29, called אַבְנֵי ז׳ v 12 = Ex 39:7; blowing of trumpets Nu 10:10 (foregoing all P), cf. זִכְרוֹן תְּרוּעָה Lv 23:24 (P; where, however, no לפני י׳, v. Di); מִנְחַת (ה)זכרון Nu 5:15, 18 (P); memorial-sentence, apophthegm Jb 13:12. * e.g. Exodus 17:14
- 2. remembrance Ec 1:11 (cstr. before prep. Ges§ 130, 1), v 11; 2:16. e.g. Ecclesiastes 1:11
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.m. Ec 1:11 memorial, remembrance (cf. LgBN 199, 200)—abs. זִכָּרוֹן Jos 4:7 +; זִכָּרֹן Ex 28:12(×2), 29; cstr. זִכְרוֹן Ec 1:11 + 2 times; sf. זִכְרוֹנֵךְ Is 57:8; pl. הַזִּכְרֹנוֹת Est 6:1; sf. זִכְרֹנֵיכֶם Jb 13:12;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from זכר (zâkar) (H2142) — to remember.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
זִכָּרוֹן
- (b. h.) same, memory, memorial. Kidd. 31ᵇ, a. e. זִכְרוֹנוֹ לברכה (abbr. ז"ל) of blessed memory, v. זָכַר. Y. Shek. II, 47ᵃ top דבריהן הן זִכְרוֹנָן their words are their monument; Gen. R. s. 82 זִכְרוֹנֵיהֶם (pl.). R. Hash. 27ᵃ ז׳ ליום ראשון typical of the first day of creation; a. fr.—Esp. a Biblical verse in which Divine remembrance is alluded to, citation of verses &c. R. Hash. IV, 6 ז׳ … של פורענות citation of remembrance … for evil. Ib. 32ᵇ ז׳ של יחיד a verse treating of the remembrance by the Lord of an individual; a. fr.—Pl. זִכְרוֹנוֹת. Ber. 6ᵃ ספר הז׳ the Divine records; a. fr.—Esp. Zikhronoth, that portion of the Musaf of the New Year’s Day which treats of Divine remembrance. R. Hash. IV, 5, sq.; a. fr.—Constr. זִכְרוֹנֵי, v. supra.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 22 distinct written forms H2146 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2146, 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
- אזכרה ʼazkârâh H234 memorial offering
- זכור zâkûwr H2138 male
- זכר zêker H2143 memorial
- זכר zâkâr H2145 male
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 10 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 20 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 22 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Exodus 12:14
- Leviticus 23:24
- Numbers 5:15
- Joshua 4:7
- Esther 6:1
- Job 13:12
- Ecclesiastes 1:11
- Isaiah 57:8
- Zechariah 6:14
- Malachi 3:16
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
