Word study
Reminder
3 Hebrew and 3 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: reminder, reminders. 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 “reminder” or one of its forms.
Compare the Hebrew words side by side Compare the Greek words side by side
Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- זִכְרוֹן zikrônmemorial, remembrancetranslated this way 5 times of its 24 uses · Strong’s H2146Noun · Translated: memorial 11, reminder 5, remembrance 3Full study and all 22 verses →
Exodus 13:9 It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.
Numbers 10:10 And on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and peace offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”
- אוֹת ôthsigntranslated this way 2 times of its 78 uses · Strong’s H226Noun · Translated: sign 40, signs 27, miraculous signs 2, banners 2Full study and all 77 verses →
Deuteronomy 6:8 Tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
Deuteronomy 11:18 Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
- זָכַר zâkarremembertranslated this way 1 time of its 227 uses · Strong’s H2142Verb · Translated: remember 122, remembered 35, recorder 9, remembers 6Full study and all 221 verses →
Numbers 5:15 then he is to bring his wife to the priest. He must also bring for her an offering of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He is not to pour oil over it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, an offering of memorial as a reminder of iniquity.
Greek words (New Testament)
- ἐπαναμιμνήσκω epanamimnḗskōI remindtranslated this way 1 time of its 1 use · Strong’s G1878Verb · Translated: reminder 1Full study and its 1 verse →
Romans 15:15 However, I have written you a bold reminder on some points, because of the grace God has given me
- ἀνάμνησις anámnēsisa recalling, remembrance, memorytranslated this way 1 time of its 4 uses · Strong’s G364Noun · Translated: remembrance 3, reminder 1Full study and all 4 verses →
Hebrews 10:3 Instead, those sacrifices are an annual reminder of sins,
- ὑπόμνησις hypómnēsisremembrancetranslated this way 1 time of its 3 uses · Strong’s G5280Noun · Translated: reminded 1, memory 1, reminders 1Full study and all 3 verses →
2 Peter 3:1 Beloved, this is now my second letter to you. Both of them are reminders to stir you to wholesome thinking
How to study a word well
- 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.
- 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.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- 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.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- 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.