zichron · memorial

What it means

zichron (זִכְרוֹן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “memorial”.

Something done or kept in order to remember.

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. Something kept so as not to forget.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• memorial ×19
• remembrance ×3
• memorials ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×8
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×5
• Joshua×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Esther×1
• Job×1
• Ecclesiastes×3
• Isaiah×1
• Zechariah×1
• Malachi×1

• Exodus 12:14

  This day shall be for you a memorial, and you shall celebrate it as a festival to YHWH; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall celebrate it.

• Exodus 13:9

  It shall be for you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, so that the instruction of YHWH may be in your mouth; for with a strong hand YHWH brought you out of Egypt.

• Exodus 17:14

  YHWH said to Moses, “Write this as a memorial in a book, and put it in the hearing of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.”

• Exodus 28:12

  You shall put the two stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod, as stones of memorial for the sons of Israel; and Aaron shall bear their names before YHWH on his two shoulders as a memorial.

• Exodus 28:29

  Aaron shall bear the names of the sons of Israel in the breastpiece of judgment on his heart when he goes into the Holy Place, as a memorial before YHWH continually.

• Exodus 30:16

  You shall take the silver of expiation from the sons of Israel and give it for the service of the tent of meeting; and it shall be for the sons of Israel a memorial before YHWH, to make expiation for your lives.”

• Exodus 39:7

  And he put them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as stones of memorial for the sons of Israel, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Leviticus 23:24

  “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying: In the seventh month, on the first of the month, you shall have a solemn rest, a memorial with a blast of acclamation, a holy convocation.

• Numbers 5:15

  then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, a tenth of an ephah of barley flour; he shall not pour oil on it and not put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of memorial, bringing to remembrance iniquity.

• Numbers 5:18

  And the priest shall set the woman before YHWH and let loose the hair of the head of the woman and put on her palms the grain offering of memorial, which is the grain offering of jealousy; and in the hand of the priest shall be the water of bitterness that brings a curse.

• Numbers 10:10

  And on the day of your rejoicing, and at your appointed times, and at the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be for you a memorial before your Elohim. I am YHWH your Elohim.”

• Numbers 16:40

  a memorial for the sons of Israel, so that no stranger, who is not of the offspring of Aaron, should come near to burn incense before YHWH, and not become like Korah and like his community, as YHWH said to him through Moses.

• Numbers 31:54

  Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the sons of Israel before YHWH.

• Joshua 4:7

  then you shall tell them that the waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of YHWH; when it crossed into the Jordan, the waters of the Jordan were cut off. So these stones shall be a memorial for the sons of Israel forever.”

• Nehemiah 2:20

  And I returned a word to them and said to them, “The Elohim of the heavens, he will give us success, and we his servants will arise and build; but you have no portion or right or memorial in Jerusalem.”

• Esther 6:1

  That night the king’s sleep fled, and he said to bring the book of the memorials, the chronicles, and they were read before the king.

• Job 13:12

  Your memorials are proverbs of ash; defenses of clay are your defenses.

• Ecclesiastes 1:11

  There is no remembrance of the former ones, and also of the later ones who will be there will be no remembrance of them among those who will be afterward.

• Ecclesiastes 2:16

  For there is no remembrance of the wise man as with the senseless forever, since already in the days to come everything will be forgotten. And how the wise man dies just like the senseless!

• Isaiah 57:8

  And behind the door and the doorpost you have set your memorial; for away from me you uncovered yourself, and went up, you widened your bed; and you made a covenant for yourself with them; you loved their bed; their hand you gazed on.

• Zechariah 6:14

  And the crowns will be for Helem and for Tobiah and for Jedaiah and for Hen son of Zephaniah, as a memorial in the temple of YHWH.

• Malachi 3:16

  Then those who fear YHWH spoke each with his neighbor; and YHWH paid attention and heard, and a book of memorial was written before him for those who fear YHWH and for those who think on his name.

And 2 more times.