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Remembrance

μνήμηStrong’s G3420

mnēmē

Appears in 1 verse of the New Testament

In short

Mnēmē is the Greek word usually translated “lasting remembrance”. It appears in 1 verse of the New Testament.

“Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.”
2 Peter 1:15 KJV
Meaning

Usually translated “lasting remembrance”. Open the dictionary entry below for the full range of meaning, with the verses it cites.

How it's translated
  • a lasting remembrance 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • 2 Peter 1

1 book in all.

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    Greek dictionary

    μνήμη mnēmē · remembrance

    μνήμη, -ης, ἡ (μνάομαι), [in LXX for זֵכֶר, זִכְרוֹן ;] memory, remembrance, mention: μ. ποιεῖσθαι, with genitive, to remember, 2Pe.1:15 (but in cl., π., μ. π. more frequently = to make mention, and so perh. here, cf. Mayor, in l; and for ex. from π., see Zorell, see word).† SYN.: μνεία, q.v (AS)

    From STEPBible’s Greek lexicon (based on Abbott-Smith).

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

    How the English word “remembrance” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

    REMEM'BRANCE, noun

    1. The retaining or having in mind an idea which had been present before, or an idea which had been previously received from an object when present, and which recurs to the mind afterwards without the presence of its object.“The righteous shall be in everlasting remembrance” Psalms 112:6
    2. Transmission of a fact from one to another.
    3. Account preserved; something to assist the memory.
    4. Memorial.
    All definitions
    1. A token by which one is kept in the memory.
    2. Notice of something absent.
    3. Power of remembering; limit of time within which a fact can be remembered; as when we say, an event took place before our remembrance or since our remembrance
    4. Honorable memory. [Not in use.]
    5. Admonition.
    6. Memorandum; a note to help the memory.

    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.