μνημεῖον mnēmeion

Greek word for “grave” · Strong’s G3419 · used 40 times in 36 verses

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Meaning

μνημεῖον, -ου, τό; 1.

How it is translated

Glosses given for mnēmeion in context, with how often each is used:

• tomb 30
• tombs 6
• monuments 1
• grave 1
• tomb? 1
• graves 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

John 20 (7), Luke 24 (5), Mark 16 (4), Matthew 27 (3), John 11 (3), Luke 11 (2), John 19 (2), Matthew 8 (1), Matthew 23 (1), Matthew 28 (1)

Forms

• μνημεῖον 17
• μνημείου 10
• μνημείῳ 5
• μνημεῖα 4
• μνημείων 3
• μνημείοις 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with mnēmeion more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• τίθημι tithēmi “to place” 8
• λίθος lithos “stone” 6
• τρέχω trechō “to run” 4
• ἐξέρχομαι exerchomai “to go out” 6
• μαθητής mathētēs “disciple” 6
• Πέτρος Petros “Peter” 5
• ἀπέρχομαι aperchomai “to go away” 4
• λατομέω latomeō “to hew” 2
• προσκυλίω proskuliō “to roll before” 2
• οὐαί ouai “woe!” 3
• ἄλλος allos “another” 4
• θύρα thura “door” 3

Key verses

The verses using mnēmeion that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Matthew 27:52 — And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,
• Matthew 27:60 — And 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 28:8 — And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.
• Mark 16:5 — And entering into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, clothed in a long white garment; and they were affrighted.
• Luke 11:44 — Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.
• Luke 11:47 — Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
• John 5:28 — Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
• John 11:38 — Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
• John 12:17 — The people therefore that was with him when he called Lazarus out of his grave, and raised him from the dead, bare record.
• John 20:1 — The first day of the week cometh Mary Magdalene early, when it was yet dark, unto the sepulchre, and seeth the stone taken away from the sepulchre.
• John 20:2 — Then she runneth, and cometh to Simon Peter, and to the other disciple, whom Jesus loved, and saith unto them, They have taken away the Lord out of the…
• Acts 13:29 — And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.