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# זֵכֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2143

**remembrance** — used 23 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

remembrance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2143/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

זֵ֫כֶר: n.m. remembrance, memorial [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2143/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. ψ 9:7 remembrance, memorial (cf. HptHbr. 1885, 230)—ז׳ abs. ψ 111:4, cstr. Dt 25:19 +; זֶכֶר cstr. Ex 17:14 van d. H; sf. זִכְרִי Ex 3:15, זִכְרְךָ Is 26:8 +, זִכְרֶ֑ךָ ψ 6:6, זִכְרוֹ Ho 12:6 +, זִכְרָם Dt 32:26 +:— remembrance, memory: of persons or people, blotted out by their destruction, Ex 17:14 (E; c. מחה) = Dt 25:19, Dt 32:26 (השׁבית) ψ 34:17; 109:15 (both הכרית), ψ 9:7 (אבד), Jb 18:17 (אבד; ‖ שֵׁם), Is 26:14 (אבּד); cf. on other hand ז׳ עוֹלָם as portion of righteous ψ 112:6. of י׳ ψ 6:6; 102:13 (‖ אַתָּה = יהוה). of י׳’s character and works ψ 30:5; 97:12; 111:4; 145:7. remembrance of certain days, i.e. their observance Est 9:28 (יִמֵי הַפּוּרִים). memorial, by which one is remembered: nearly = שֵׁם, ז׳ צַדִּיק לִבְרָכָה Pr 10:7 (‖ שֵׁם), cf. also Ec 9:5 (c. נשׁכח); especially of י׳ Ex 3:15 (E), Ho 12:6 Is 26:8 ψ 135:13 (all ‖ שֵׁם). = renown (of Israel) Ho 14:8 (cf. VB).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 23 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: remembrance (11); memorial (6); the remembrance (5).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 32:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.32.26/#tree)

אָמַ֖רְתִּי אַפְאֵיהֶ֑ם אַשְׁבִּ֥יתָה מֵאֱנ֖וֹשׁ זִכְרָֽם׃

*Word for word:* I.said I will.cut.them.in.pieces I.will.make.cease from humankind remembrance their

*JPS 1917:* I thought I would make an end of them, I would make their memory cease from among men;

[Proverbs 10:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.7/#tree)

זֵ֣כֶר צַ֭דִּיק לִבְרָכָ֑ה וְשֵׁ֖ם רְשָׁעִ֣ים יִרְקָֽב׃

*Word for word:* \[the\].memorial of.\[the\].righteous \[is\].for a.blessing and.\[the\] name of.wicked.\[people\] it.will.rot

*JPS 1917:* The memory of the righteous shall be for a blessing; but the name of the wicked shall rot.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2143.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1494/2143/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).