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Strong's #3419 - μνημεῖον
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- any visible object for preserving or recalling the memory of any person or thing
- a memorial, monument, specifically, a sepulchral monument
- a sepulchre, a tomb
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μνημ-εῖον,
Dor. μνᾱμεῖον, Ion. μνημήϊον, τό,
1. memorial, remembrance, record of a person or thing, μνημήϊα καταλιπέσθαι Hdt. 2.126, 135; λόγων φερτάτων μ. Pi. P. 5.49, cf. A. Th. 49, etc.; μνημεῖα ὅρκων a record of the oaths, E. Supp. 1204; μνημεῖα κακῶν τε κἀγαθῶν ἀΐδια Th. 2.41; μνημεῖα τῆς δαπάνης visible memorials, Arist. Pol. 1321a40; ἐνομίζομεν τὰς συμφορὰς ἱκανὰ μ. τῇ πόλει καταλελεῖφθαι, ὥστε μηδ' ἄν.. ἐπιθυμεῖν Lys. 34.1; τὰ παίδων μαθήματα θαυμαστὸν ἔχει τι μ. the lessons of childhood cling strangely to the memory, Pl. Ti. 26b; μνημεῖα καταλειφθῆναι τῶν μελλόντων ἔσεσθαι to be left behind as reminders of things to come, Id. Phdr. 233a.
2. of one dead, Simon. 106 (pl.); μνημεῖ' Ὀρέστου.. προσθεῖναι S. El. 933; of an urn containing the ashes of the dead, ib. 1126; τύμβον χῶσον κἀπίθες μνημεῖά μοι E. IT 702; τάφων τε καὶ τῶν ἄλλων μ. Pl. R. 414a; tomb, LXX John 13:6, John 5:28, SIG 1234, etc.: generally, monument, Th. 1.138, Pl. Criti. 120c (pl.), X. HG 2.4.17, IG 14.1932 (ii A. D.), etc.
μνημεῖον, μνημείου, τό;
1. "any visible object for preserving or recalling the memory of any person or thing; a memorial, monument" (Aeschylus, Pindar, Sophocles, and following); in Biblical Greek so in Wis. 10:7; specifically, a sepulchral monument: οἰκοδομεῖν μνημεῖα, Luke 11:47; Josephus, Antiquities 13, 6, 5.
2. in the Scriptures a sepulchre, tomb: Matthew 23:29; Matthew 27:52, 60; Matthew 28:8; Mark 5:2; Mark 6:29; Luke 11:44; John 5:28; John 11:17, 31, and often in the Gospels; Acts 13:29; the Sept. for קֶבֶר, Genesis 23:6, 9; Genesis 50:5; Isaiah 22:16, etc.
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μνημεῖον , -ου , τό ,
1. a memorial, record (cl., cf. Wisdom of Solomon 10:7).
2. (a) (cl.) a monument: Luke 11:47;
(b) a sepulchre, tomb (Genesis 23:6; Genesis 23:9, Isaiah 22:16, al.): Matthew 23:29, Mark 5:2, Luke 11:44, John 5:28, and freq. in Gospels, Acts 13:29.
SYN.: μνῆμα G3418.
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