μνημεῖονmnēmeîon
a remembrance, i.e. cenotaph (place of interment)
Greek (New Testament) · G3419
Meanings
1. a memorial, record (classical Greek, cf. Wisdom 10:7).
(a) (classical Greek) a monument: Luke 11:47
(b) a sepulchre, tomb (Genesis 23:6, Genesis 23:9, Isaiah 22:16, and elsewhere): Matthew 23:29, Mark 5:2, Luke 11:44, John 5:28, and frequently in Gospels, Acts 13:29.
Synonyms
μνῆμα.
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 40 times in the Bible.
- Matthew 8:28 When Jesus arrived on the other side of the lake, in the region of the Gadarenes, two men who were possessed by demons met him. They came out of the tombs and were so violent that no one could go through that area.
- Matthew 23:29 “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you build tombs for the prophets your ancestors killed, and you decorate the monuments of the godly people your ancestors destroyed.
- Matthew 27:52 and tombs opened. The bodies of many godly men and women who had died were raised from the dead.
- Matthew 27:53 They left the cemetery after Jesus’ resurrection, went into the holy city of Jerusalem, and appeared to many people.
- Matthew 27:60 He placed it in his own new tomb, which had been carved out of the rock. Then he rolled a great stone across the entrance and left.
- Matthew 28:8 The women ran quickly from the tomb. They were very frightened but also filled with great joy, and they rushed to give the disciples the angel’s message.
Source: G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (1922), public domain.