Strong's Concordance
mimnéskó: to remind, remember
Original Word: μιμνήσκομαιPart of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: mimnéskó
Phonetic Spelling: (mim-nace'-ko)
Short Definition: I remember, recall
Definition: I remember, call to mind, recall, mention.
HELPS Word-studies
Cognate: 3403 mimnḗskō (from 3415 /mnáomai, "to remember, recollect," NAS dictionary) – properly, recall, bring to mind, remind oneself actively (purposefully); to remember, have in mind, "be mindful of."
3403 (mimnskō) means "actively remember" (i.e. intentionally) – not off-handedly or merely incidentally.
[3403 should be treated (semantically) the same as 3415 (mnáomai), so BAGD, J. Thayer – i.e. as by-forms of the same verb (having the same meaning).
The high level of personal (self) involvement and personal interest motivating this remembering accounts for why it is always in the Greek middle voice.]
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
