Word Summary
mimnēskomai: to remind, remember
Original Word: μιμνήσκομαιTransliteration: mimnēskomai
Phonetic Spelling: (mim-nace'-ko)
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to remind, remember
Meaning: to remind, remember
Strong's Concordance
be mindful, remember.
A prolonged form of mnaomai (from which some of the tenses are borrowed); to remind, i.e. (middle voice) to recall to mind -- be mindful, remember.
see GREEK mnaomai
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 3403: μιμνήσκωμιμνήσκω: (
ΜΝΑΩ (allied with
μένω,
μανθάνω; cf. Latin
maneo, moneo, mentio, etc.; cf.
Curtius, § 429));
to remind:
Homer,
Pindar,
Theognis,
Euripides, others; passive and middle, present
μιμνῄσκομαι (
Hebrews 2:6;
Hebrews 13:3; rare in Attic); 1 aorist
ἐμνήσθην; perfect
μέμνημαι; 1 future passive in a middle sense,
μνησθήσομαι (
Hebrews 10:17 L T Tr WH); the
Sept. for
זָכַר;
to be recalled or to return to one's mind, to remind oneself of, to remember;
ἐμνήσθην, with a passive significance (cf.
Buttmann, 52 (46)),
to be recalled to mind, to be remembered, had in remembrance:
ἐνώπιον τίνος, before, i. e., in the mind of one (see
ἐνώπιον, 1 c.),
Acts 10:31;
Revelation 16:19 (passively also in
Ezekiel 18:22; (Sir. 16:17
Rec.); and
ἀναμνησθῆναι,
Numbers 10:9;
Psalm 108:16 ()); — with a middle significance, followed by a genitive of the thing (Winers Grammar, § 30, 10 c.), to remember a thing: Matthew 26:75; Luke 24:8; Acts 11:16; 2 Peter 3:2; Jude 1:17; μνησθῆναι ἐλέους, to call to remembrance former love, Luke 1:54 (cf. Psalm 24:6 ()); τῆς διαθήκης, Luke 1:72 (Genesis 9:15; Exodus 2:24; 1 Macc. 4:10; 2 Macc. 1:2); μή μνησθῆναι τῶν ἁμαρτιῶν τίνος (A. V. to remember no more) i. e. to forgive, Hebrews 8:12; Hebrews 10:17 (after the Hebrew; see Psalm 24:7 (); (); Isaiah 43:25; and on the other hand, to remember the sins of anyone is said of one about to punish them, Jeremiah 14:10; 1 Macc. 5:4 1 Macc. 6:12); with genitive of a person, to remember for good, remember and care for: Luke 23:42; followed by ὅτι, Matthew 5:23; Matthew 27:63; Luke 16:25; John 2:17, 22; John 12:16; by ὡς, Luke 24:6. perfect μέμνημαι, in the sense of a present (cf. Winers Grammar, 274 (257)), to be mindful of: with the genitive of the thing, 2 Timothy 1:4; πάντα μου μέμνησθε, in all things ye are mindful of me, 1 Corinthians 11:2; present μιμνῄσκομαι, with the genitive of the person, to remember one in order to care for him, Hebrews 2:2 (from Psalm 8:5); . (Compare: ἀναμιμνῄσκω, ἐπαναμιμνῄσκω, ὑπομιμνῄσκω.)