Tomb
μνῆμαStrong’s G3418mnēma
Appears in 8 verses of the New Testament
In short
Mnēma is the Greek word usually translated “tombs” and “tomb”. It appears in 8 verses of the New Testament.
“Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:”
Meaning
Usually translated “tombs” and “tomb”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- tombs 3
- tomb 3
- a tomb 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Luke 3
- Mark 2
- Acts 2
- Revelation 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Mark 5:5And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.
- Luke 8:27And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.
- Luke 23:53And he took it down, and wrapped it in linen, and laid it in a sepulchre that was hewn in stone, wherein never man before was laid.
- Luke 24:1Now upon the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they came unto the sepulchre, bringing the spices which they had prepared, and certain others with them.
- Acts 2:29Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
- Acts 7:16And were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem.
Greek dictionary
μνῆμα mnēma · tomb
μνῆμα, -τος, τό (μνάομαι), [in LXX for קֶבֶר, קְבוּרָה ;] 1. a memorial. 2. a sepulchral monument, a sepulchre, tomb: Mrk.5:3, 5 15:46 16:2 (WH, μνημεῖον), Luk.8:27 23:53 24:1, Act.2:29 7:16, Rev.11:9.† SYN.: μνημεῖον (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “tomb” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TOMB, noun
toom. [Latin tumulus, a heap or hillock; tumeo, to swell.]
- A grave; a pit in which the dead body of a human being is deposited.
- A house or vault formed wholly or partly in the earth, with walls and a roof for the reception of the dead.
- A monument erected to preserve the memory of the dead.
All definitions and other forms of “tomb”
TOMB, verb transitive
To bury; to inter. [See Entomb.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Greek, not from any one translation.