μνῆμα
mnēma · G3418 · Greek · 10 occurrences
Thing
- Tomb, graveBurial and mourning142 verses
Meanings
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grave, tomb
A construction for the burial of the dead; often a natural cave or hewn out of bedrock
ExamplesMark 5:3 He lived among the tombs; and no one was able to bind him anymore, not even with a chain,
Mark 5:5 Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the mountains, and cutting himself with stones.
Luke 8:27 And when He stepped out onto the land, a man from the city met Him who was possessed with demons; and he had not put on clothing for a long time and was not living in a house, but among the tombs.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- αὐτόςhe, she, it, same 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- λαξευτόςhewn out of rock 1
Named alongside itApposition
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- εἰμίto be 1
- ὠνέομαιto buy 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- ἐγώI, we 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
7 occurrences in 3 groups
- ἐνin 8
- εἰςto 2
- ἐπίon 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- τάφος táphos · G5028 · grave, tomb
- Both terms denote a grave or tomb; μνῆμα emphasizes the memorial or monumental aspect of the burial site, while τάφος focuses on the interment site itself.
In the other Testament 1 word
- קֶבֶר qeber · H6913 · tomb, grave, world of the dead
- Hebrew קֶבֶר denotes the physical burial place or grave itself, directly equivalent to Greek μνῆμα in its sepulchral monument sense, both referring to the tomb/grave as a place of interment.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Grave, tomb7.75
- This sense denotes a place of burial. Mark 15:46 describes Joseph of Arimathea taking Jesus's body down and laying it “in a tomb which had been cut out in the rock.”
Word family 27 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon μνήματος, τό (μνάομαι, perfect passive μέμνημαι); 1. a monument or memorial to perpetuate…
1. a monument or memorial to perpetuate the memory of any person or thing (Homer, Pindar, Sophocles, others).
2. a sepulchral monument (Homer, Euripides, Xenophon, Plato, others).
3. a sepulchre or tomb (receptacle where a dead body is deposited (cf. Edersheim, Jesus the Messiah, ii., 316f)): Mk 5:3 G L T Tr WH; ; ( T WH); Lk 8:27; Lk 23:53; Lk 24:1; Acts 2:29; Acts 7:16; Rev 11:9 (Josephus, Antiquities 7, 1, 3; the Sept. for קֶבֶר).
Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament (1889), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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