G3420: μνήμη (mnḗmē)

G3420 μνήμη (mnḗmē)

Greek

Quick Definition

μνήμη, ης, ἡ n.f. memory, remembrance, mention

Strong's Definition

memory

UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament

μνήμη (G3420)

noun, f. | -ης | μιμνῄσκομαι

29.7 · Memory and Recall · Recalling from Memory

to remember, to recall, to think about again, memory, remembrance to recall information from memory, but without necessarily the implication that persons have actually forgotten In some languages the process of remembering is expressed idiomatically, for example, ‘to find one’s thoughts again’ or ‘to see again in one’s heart’ or ‘to have one’s liver repeat the words.’

2PE 1:15

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Thayer's Greek Lexicon

μνήμη, -ης, ἡ,» (μνάομαι); a. memory,remembrance; Ὁ. mention: μνήμην ποιεῖσθαί τινος, to remember a thing, call it to remembrance, 2 Pet. i. 15; the same expression occurs in Grk. writ. fr. Hdt. down, but in the sense of Lat. mentionem facere, to make mention of a thing.

Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary

μνήμη mnēmē 1x

remembrance, recollection, memory; μνήμην ποιεῖσθαι, to make mention, 2 Pet. 1:15*

Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon

μνήμη, -ης, ἡ

(< μνάομαι), [in LXX for זֵכֶר, זִכָּרוֹן;]

memory, remembrance, mention: μ. ποιεῖσθαι, c. gen., to remember, II Pe 1:15 (but in cl., π., μ. π. more freq. = to make mention, and so perh. here, cf. Mayor, in l.; and for ex. from π., v. Zorell, s.v.).†

SYN.: μνεία, q.v.

Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT

μνήμη. For μνήμην ποιεῖσθαι in its ordinary sense of ‘make mention” (as perhaps also in 2 Pet 115: see Mayor adZ.), we may cite the letter attributed to the dying Hadrian, P Fay 197°, in which the Emperor announces his intention of making a simple and accurate statement of certain facts— αὐτῶν τῶν πραγμάτων ἁπλῆν [. . . ἀκριβ]εστάτην μνήμην ποιούμενος. Exx. of the subst. = “memory,” ‘“remembrance,”’ are Chrest. I. 2639 (A.D. 156) ἐπιστολὴ τοῦ κρατίστης μνήμης Μαμερτείνου, P Ryl II. 23513 (ii/a.p.) ἔχων ὑπογύως ἐν μνήμηι τὰς τιμὰς ὧν ἀγοράζει ἐξαρτισμῶν, **having fresh in his mind the prices of the fittings which he | καὶ μογιλάλοι ἢ Kal ταῖς ἀκοαῖς παραποδιζόμενοι. buys ’’ (Edd.), P Oxy II. 237-30 (a.p. 186) σὺ ὁ κύριος τῇ θεογνώστῳ cov μνήμῃ καὶ τῇ ἀπλανήτῳ προαιρέσει ἀνενεγκὼν τὴϊν γραφεῖσ]άν σοι ὑπὸ τοῦ στρατηγοῦ ἐπιστολήν, “your lordship exercising your divine memory and unerring judgement took into consideration the letter written to you by the strategus” (Edd.), 76. IX. 12199 (iii/a.p.) διὰ τὴν μνήμην τίο]ῦ πατρὸς αὐτοῦ, 73. X. 1320 (A.D. 497) ᾿Επιφανίῳ [υἱῷ τοῦ τῆς] μακαρίας μνήμης Ἰωσήφ, and Sy// 740 (- *1112)® (before A.D. 212) 6 μνήμης ἀρίστης Ἰούλιος ᾿Αριστέας. For the adj. μνημονικός cf. BGU IV. 11327 (B.C. 13) κατὰ μνημονικὴν συγγραφήν, and for μνήμων in the phrase ἀγορανόμωι . . . μνήμονι cf. P Ryl II. 11813 (B.C. 16-15) with the editors’ note.

Liddell-Scott-Jones — Greek-English Lexicon

μνήμη (mnēmē) — remembrance. μνήμ-η, Doric dialect μνάμα, ἡ, (μνάομαι) remembrance, memory of a person or thing, absolutely or with genitive, κακῶν μ. γίνεται οὐδεμία [Refs 6th c.BC+]; λείπεσθαι ἀθάνατον μ. (i.e. ἑαυτοῦ) [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ ἄνθρωποι πρὸς ἃ ἔπασχον τὴν μ. ἐποιοῦντο made their recollections suit their sufferings, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μνήμην πεποίηκεν has made [him] remembered, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the dead, μακαρίας μνήμης, θείας μνήμης, [Refs 6th c.AD+]; κρατίστης μνήμης Wilcken [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; μνήμης ἀρίστης [Refs 3rd c.AD+]

2. memory as a power of the mind, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; proper to animals, opposed to ἀνάμνησις, of man, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰπεῖν τι μνήμης ἄπο from memory, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; εἰς μ. ἀναληπτέον[Refs 5th c.BC+] all the memories, acts of memory, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; powers of memory, [Refs]

3. memorial, record, κυπαρίττιναι μνῆμαι εἰς τὸν ἔπειτα χρόνον καταγεγραμμέναι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μνῆμαι ἐν μέτροις καὶ ἄνευ μέτρων inscriptions, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; μ. μυθολόγος mythological record, history, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]

II. mention, notice of a thing, μ. ποιεῖσθαί τινος [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μ. ποιήσασθαι περί or ὑπέρ τινος, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

III. μνήμη βασίλειος the imperial cabinet or archives, τῆς β. μ. προεστώς, = Latin a memoria, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

IV. ={μνῆμα}, tomb, [Refs]