Word study

Remind

1 Hebrew and 5 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: remind, reminded. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “remind” or one of its forms.

Compare the Greek words side by side

Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • זָכַר zâkarremembertranslated this way 3 times of its 227 uses · Strong’s H2142Verb  ·  Translated: remember 122, remembered 35, recorder 9, remembers 6

    1 Kings 17:18 “O man of God,” said the woman to Elijah, “what have you done to me? Have you come to remind me of my iniquity and cause the death of my son?”

    Isaiah 43:26 Remind Me, let us argue the matter together. State your case, so that you may be vindicated.

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Greek words (New Testament)

  • ὑπομιμνήσκω hypomimnḗskōI remind, remembertranslated this way 5 times of its 7 uses · Strong’s G5279Verb  ·  Translated: remind 5, remembered 1, call attention 1

    John 14:26 But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.

    2 Timothy 2:14 Remind the believers of these things, charging them before God to avoid quarreling over words, which succeeds only in leading the listeners to ruin.

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  • ἀναμιμνήσκω anamimnḗskōI remind, admonish, remembertranslated this way 2 times of its 6 uses · Strong’s G363Verb  ·  Translated: remembered 2, remind 2, remembers 1, Remember 1

    1 Corinthians 4:17 That is why I have sent you Timothy, my beloved and faithful child in the Lord. He will remind you of my way of life in Christ Jesus, which is exactly what I teach everywhere in every church.

    2 Timothy 1:6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands.

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  • γνωρίζω gnōrízōI make known, declare, knowtranslated this way 1 time of its 25 uses · Strong’s G1107Verb  ·  Translated: made known 9, tell 3, make 2, want you to know 2

    1 Corinthians 15:1 Now, brothers, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, and in which you stand firm.

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  • λογίζομαι logízomaiI reckon, count, decidetranslated this way 1 time of its 40 uses · Strong’s G3049Verb  ·  Translated: credited 11, consider 4, think 2, regarded 2

    2 Corinthians 10:7 You are looking at outward appearances. If anyone is confident that he belongs to Christ, he should remind himself that we belong to Christ just as much as he does.

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  • ὑπόμνησις hypómnēsisremembrancetranslated this way 1 time of its 3 uses · Strong’s G5280Noun  ·  Translated: reminded 1, memory 1, reminders 1

    2 Timothy 1:5 I am reminded of your sincere faith, which first dwelt in your grandmother Lois and your mother Eunice, and I am convinced is in you as well.

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How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.