STRONGS G3419:
μνημεῖον,
μνημείου,
τό;
1. "any visible object for preserving or recalling the memory of any person or thing; a memorial, monument" (
Aeschylus,
Pindar,
Sophocles, and following); in Biblical Greek so in Wis. 10:7; specifically,
a sepulchral monument:
οἰκοδομεῖν μνημεῖα,
Luke 11:47;
Josephus, Antiquities 13, 6, 5.
2. in the Scriptures
a sepulchre, tomb:
Matthew 23:29;
Matthew 27:52,
60;
Matthew 28:8;
Mark 5:2;
Mark 6:29;
Luke 11:44;
John 5:28;
John 11:17,
31, and often in the Gospels;
Acts 13:29; the
Sept. for
קֶבֶר,
Genesis 23:6,
9;
Genesis 50:5;
Isaiah 22:16, etc.
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