Grave
μνημεῖονStrong’s G3419mnēmeion
Appears in 37 verses of the New Testament
In short
Mnēmeion is the Greek word usually translated “tomb”, “tombs” and “monuments”. It appears in 37 verses of the New Testament.
“And when he was come to the other side into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him two possessed with devils, coming out of the tombs, exceeding fierce, so that no man might pass by that way.”
Meaning
Usually translated “tomb”, “tombs” and “monuments”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.
How it's translated
- tomb 29
- tombs 6
- monuments 2
- a tomb 2
- a grave 1
- graves 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- John 14
- Luke 9
- Mark 7
- Matthew 6
- Acts 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Matthew 23:29Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
- Matthew 27:52And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
- Matthew 27:53And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
- Matthew 27:60And laid it in his own new tomb, which he had hewn out in the rock: and he rolled a great stone to the door of the sepulchre, and departed.
- Matthew 28:8And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
- Mark 5:2And when he was come out of the ship, immediately there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,
Greek dictionary
μνημεῖον mnēmeion · grave
μνημεῖον, -ου, τό [in LXX for קֶבֶר, קְבוּרָה ;] 1. a memorial, record (cl., cf. Wis.10:7). 2. (a) (cl.) a monument: Luk.11:47; (b) a sepulchre, tomb (Gen.23:6, 9, Isa.22:16, al.): Mat.23:29, Mrk.5:2, Luk.11:44, Jhn.5:28, and frequently in Gospels, Act.13:29 SYN.: μνῆμα (AS)
From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “grave” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GRAVE, verb transitive
preterit tense graved; participle passive graven or graved. [Gr. to write; originally all writing was graving; Eng. to scrape.]
- To carve or cut letters or figures on stone or other hard substance, with a chisel or edged tool; to engrave. [The latter word is now more generally used.]“Thou shalt take two onyx-stones and grave on them the names of the children of Israel” Exodus 28:9
- To carve; to form or shape by cutting with a chisel; as, to grave an image.“Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image” Exodus 20:4
- To clean a ship's bottom by burning off filth, grass or other foreign matter, and paying it over with pitch.
- To entomb. [Unusual.]
All definitions and other forms of “grave”
GRAVE, verb intransitive
To carve; to write or delineate on hard substances; to practice engraving.
GRAVE, noun
[Latin scrobs.]
- The ditch, pit or excavated place in which a dead human body is deposited; a place for the corpse of a human being; a sepulcher.
- A tomb.
- Any place where the dead are reposited; a place of great slaughter or mortality.
- Graves, in the plural, sediment of tallow melted. [Not in use or local.]
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.