μνημονεύω
mnēmoneuō
to remember
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Greek verb "μνημονεύω" (mnēmoneuō) means "to remember." This verb falls within the semantic domain of "Light & Darkness," which indicates its connection to concepts of awareness, understanding, and insight. The fact that it is used 21 times in the Bible highlights its importance in the narrative. The verb "μνημονεύω" has a range of usage, from remembering past events to recalling divine truths. It's used in contexts where knowledge, understanding, or remembrance are key components, such as recalling commands, prophecies, or significant events from the past. The significance of "μνημονεύω" in the biblical narrative suggests that remembering is essential for understanding one's place within the divine plan. The frequency of its use emphasizes the importance of recalling past events, divine truths, and promises that pertain to the present.
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Occurrences in Scripture
21 total occurrences across the text
Don’t you yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took up?
Mark 8:18Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, don’t you hear? Don’t you remember?
Luke 17:32Remember Lot’s wife!
John 15:20Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his lord.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you. If they kept my word, they will also keep yours.
John 16:4But I have told you these things, so that when the time comes, you may remember that I told you about them. I didn’t tell you these things from the beginning, because I was with you.
John 16:21A woman, when she gives birth, has sorrow because her time has come. But when she has delivered the child, she doesn’t remember the anguish any more, for the joy that a human being is born into the world.
Acts 20:31Therefore watch, remembering that for a period of three years I didn’t cease to admonish everyone night and day with tears.
Acts 20:35In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”
Galatians 2:10They only asked us to remember the poor—which very thing I was also zealous to do.
Ephesians 2:11Therefore remember that once you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called “uncircumcision” by that which is called “circumcision” (in the flesh, made by hands),
Colossians 4:18The salutation of me, Paul, with my own hand: remember my bonds. Grace be with you. Amen.
1 Thessalonians 1:3remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and perseverance of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father.
1 Thessalonians 2:9For you remember, brothers, our labor and travail; for working night and day, that we might not burden any of you, we preached to you the Good News of God.
2 Thessalonians 2:5Don’t you remember that, when I was still with you, I told you these things?
2 Timothy 2:8Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the offspring of David, according to my Good News,
Hebrews 11:15If indeed they had been thinking of that country from which they went out, they would have had enough time to return.
Hebrews 11:22By faith, Joseph, when his end was near, made mention of the departure of the children of Israel, and gave instructions concerning his bones.
Hebrews 13:7Remember your leaders, men who spoke to you the word of God, and considering the results of their conduct, imitate their faith.
Revelation 2:5Remember therefore from where you have fallen, and repent and do the first works; or else I am coming to you swiftly, and will move your lamp stand out of its place, unless you repent.
Revelation 3:3Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If therefore you won’t watch, I will come as a thief, and you won’t know what hour I will come upon you.
Revelation 18:5for her sins have reached to the sky, and God has remembered her iniquities.