Record
דִּכְרוֹןStrong’s H2146dikhron (dikh-ron)
Appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Dikhron is the Hebrew word usually translated “remembrance”, “memorial” and “reminder”. It appears in 22 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the LORD.”
Meaning
- Record, memorandum
How it's translated
- remembrance 7
- a memorial 4
- reminder 2
- to a memorial 2
- a reminder 2
- and a reminder 1
- to a reminder 1
- a remembrance of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 7
- Numbers 5
- Ecclesiastes 2
- Leviticus 1
- Joshua 1
- Nehemiah 1
11 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 12:14And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
- Exodus 13:9And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD’s law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.
- Exodus 17:14And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
- Exodus 28:12And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
- Exodus 28:29And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually.
- Exodus 30:16And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
Hebrew dictionary
דִּכְרוֹן dikhron · record
record, memorandum Aramaic of zikh.ron (זִכָּרוֹן "memorial" H2146)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “record” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RECORD', verb intransitive
To sing or repeat a tune. [Not in use.]
All definitions and other forms of “record”
REC'ORD, noun
- A register; an authentic or official copy of any writing, or account of any facts and proceedings, entered in a book for preservation; or the book containing such copy or account; as the records of statutes or of judicial courts; the records of a town or parish.
- Authentic memorial; as the records of past ages.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.