mnēma · tomb

What it means

mnēma (μνῆμα) 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. A place, often cut in rock, where the dead were laid.

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

How it is translated

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

• tomb ×5
• tombs ×3

Where it appears

• Mark×2
• Luke×3
• Acts×2
• Revelation×1

• Mark 5:3

  He had his dwelling among the tombs, and no one could bind him any longer, not even with a chain,

• Mark 5:5

  And always, night and day, among the tombs and on the mountains he was crying out and cutting himself with stones.

• Luke 8:27

  And when he stepped out onto the land, a certain man from the town who had demons met him; and for a long time he had not worn clothing, and he was not living in a house but in the tombs.

• Luke 23:53

  And taking it down, he wrapped it in a linen cloth and laid him in a tomb cut in the rock, where no one had yet been laid.

• Luke 24:1

  But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came to the tomb, bringing the spices that they had prepared.

• Acts 2:29

  Brothers, it is permitted to speak to you with frankness about the patriarch David, that he both died and was buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

• Acts 7:16

  and they were carried over to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham had bought for a sum of silver from the sons of Hamor in Shechem.

• Revelation 11:9

  And people from the peoples and tribes and languages and nations look at their corpse for three and a half days, and they do not allow their corpses to be placed in a tomb.