mnēmeion · tomb

What it means

mnēmeion (μνημεῖον) is a Greek word of the Bible that means “tomb”.

Grave.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. The place where a dead person was buried, often a cave closed with a stone.
2. A tomb built to honor someone's memory.

From Abbott-Smith (1922) · Thayer (1889)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• tomb ×32
• tombs ×7
• monuments ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Matthew×7
• Mark×8
• Luke×8
• John×16
• Acts×1

• Matthew 8:28

  And when he came to the other side, to the region of the Gadarenes, two men possessed by demons met him, coming out of the tombs, so violent that no one could pass along that road.

• Matthew 23:29

  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,

• Matthew 27:52

  and the tombs were opened, and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised;

• Matthew 27:53

  and coming out of the tombs after his resurrection, they went into the holy city and appeared to many.

• Matthew 27:60

  and laid it in his own new tomb, which he had cut in the rock; and after rolling a large stone to the door of the tomb, he went away.

• Matthew 28:8

  And going away quickly from the tomb with fear and great joy, they ran to tell his disciples.

• Mark 5:2

  And when he had come out of the boat, at once a man with an unclean spirit met him from the tombs.

• Mark 6:29

  And when his disciples heard of it, they came and took away his body and laid it in a tomb.

• Mark 15:46

  And having bought a linen cloth, he took him down, wrapped him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb that had been hewn out of the rock; and he rolled a stone against the entrance of the tomb.

• Mark 16:2

  And very early on the first day of the week, they come to the tomb when the sun had risen.

• Mark 16:3

  And they were saying to one another, “Who will roll away the stone for us from the entrance of the tomb?”

• Mark 16:5

  And entering into the tomb, they saw a young man sitting on the right side, dressed in a white robe, and they were greatly alarmed.

• Mark 16:8

  And they went out and fled from the tomb, for trembling and astonishment had seized them; and they said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid. Shorter ending: And all that they had been commanded they reported briefly to those around Peter. And after these things Jesus himself also sent out through them, from east to west, the sacred and imperishable proclamation of eternal salvation. Amen.

• Luke 11:44

  Woe to you, because you are like the unmarked tombs, and the people who walk over them do not know it.”

• Luke 11:47

  Woe to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

• Luke 23:55

  And the women who had come with him from Galilee followed and saw the tomb and how his body was laid.

• Luke 24:2

  And they found the stone rolled away from the tomb,

• Luke 24:9

  And returning from the tomb, they reported all these things to the eleven and to all the rest.

• Luke 24:12

  But Peter got up and ran to the tomb; and stooping to look in, he sees the linen cloths alone; and he went away to his home, marveling at what had happened.

• Luke 24:22

  But also some women from among us amazed us; they were at the tomb early in the morning,

• Luke 24:24

  And some of those with us went to the tomb and found it just as the women also had said; but him they did not see.”

• John 5:28

  Do not be amazed at this, for an hour is coming in which all who are in the tombs will hear his voice

• John 11:17

  So when Jesus came, he found that he had already been in the tomb four days.

• John 11:31

  So the Jews who were with her in the house and were consoling her, when they saw that Mary got up quickly and went out, followed her, thinking that she was going to the tomb to weep there.

• John 11:38

  So Jesus, again deeply moved in himself, comes to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it.

• John 12:17

  So the crowd that had been with him when he called Lazarus out of the tomb and raised him from the dead kept testifying.

• John 19:41

  Now in the place where he was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid.

• John 19:42

  So there, because of the day of preparation of the Jews, since the tomb was near, they laid Jesus.

• John 20:1

  Now on the first day of the week, Mary Magdalene comes early to the tomb, while it was still dark, and she sees the stone taken away from the tomb.

• John 20:2

  So she runs and comes to Simon Peter and to the other disciple, whom Jesus held dear, and says to them, “They have taken the Lord out of the tomb, and we do not know where they have put him.”

• John 20:3

  So Peter and the other disciple went out, and they were going to the tomb.

• John 20:4

  And the two were running together, and the other disciple ran ahead, faster than Peter, and came first to the tomb.

• John 20:6

  So Simon Peter also comes, following him, and he went into the tomb; and he sees the linen cloths lying there,

• John 20:8

  So then the other disciple, who had come first to the tomb, also went in, and he saw and believed;

• John 20:11

  But Mary was standing outside at the tomb, weeping. So as she wept, she stooped to look into the tomb;

• Acts 13:29

  And when they had carried out all that had been written about him, they took him down from the wooden beam and laid him in a tomb.

And 4 more times.