Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
memorial
Usage: memorial, reminder, remembrance
Zikron means “memorial” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G2146 — euprosopeo (“make a fair show”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H2146 זִכרוֹן (zikrown) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. zikrown (zik-rone') n-m. 1. a memento (or memorable thing, day or writing) [from H2142] It has 22 linked Bible usages across 11 books. Visible English usage signals include memorial, day, records, things, and days. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
zikrown (zik-rone') n-m. 1. a memento (or memorable thing, day or writing) [from H2142] KJV: memorial, record. Root(s): H2142
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memorial
Usage: memorial, reminder, remembrance
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render zikrown, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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22 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD's law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
First 22 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2146.
And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial between thine eyes, that the LORD's law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: for I will utterly put out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.
And thou shalt put the two stones upon the shoulders of the ephod for stones of memorial unto the children of Israel: and Aaron shall bear their names before the LORD upon his two shoulders for a memorial.
And Aaron shall bear the names of the children of Israel in the breastplate of judgment upon his heart, when he goeth in unto the holy place, for a memorial before the LORD continually.
And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
And he put them on the shoulders of the ephod, that they should be stones for a memorial to the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses.
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.
And the priest shall set the woman before the LORD, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:
Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the LORD your God.
To be a memorial unto the children of Israel, that no stranger, which is not of the seed of Aaron, come near to offer incense before the LORD; that he be not as Korah, and as his company: as the LORD said to him by the hand of Moses.
And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the children of Israel before the LORD.
Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off: and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever.
Then answered I them, and said unto them, The God of heaven, he will prosper us; therefore we his servants will arise and build: but ye have no portion, nor right, nor memorial, in Jerusalem.
On that night could not the king sleep, and he commanded to bring the book of records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.
Your remembrances are like unto ashes, your bodies to bodies of clay.
There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.
And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the LORD.
Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2146, grouped by book.
Zikron (Strong's H2146) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "memorial". zikrown (zik-rone') n-m. 1. a memento (or memorable thing, day or writing) [from H2142]
This page currently indexes 22 linked usages for Strong's H2146 across 11 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2146 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as memorial, day, records, things, and days. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.