Quick Definition
remembrance, recollection
Strong's Definition
recollection; by implication, recital
Derivation: from G3415 (μνάομαι) or G3403 (μιμνήσκω);
KJV Usage: mention, remembrance
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
μνεία, μνειας, ἡ (μιμνήσκω), remembrance, memory, mention: ἐπί πάσῃ τῇ μνεία ὑμῶν, as often as I remember you (literally, 'on all my remembrance' etc. cf. Winer's Grammar, § 18, 4), Php_1:3; ποιεῖσθαι μνείαν τίνος, to make mention of one, Rom_1:9; Eph_1:16; 1Th_1:2; Phm_1:4 (Plato, Phaedr., p. 254 a.; (Diogenes Laërtius 8. 2, 66; the Sept. Psa_110:4 ()); ἔχειν μνείαν τίνος, to be mindful of one, 1Th_3:6 (Sophocles, Aristophanes, Euripides, others); ἀδιάλειπτον ἔχειν τήν περί τίνος μνείαν, 2Ti_1:3.
Mounce Concise Greek Dictionary
μνεία mneia 7x
remembrance, recollection, Php_1:3 ; 1Th_3:6 ; 2Ti_1:3 ;
mention; μνείαν ποιεῖσθαι ,
to make mention, Rom_1:9 ; Eph_1:16 ; 1Th_1:2 ; Phm_1:4
Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
μνεία , -ας , ἡ
( < μιμνήσκω ),
[in LXX for H2142 , its parts and deriva\-tives;]
remembrance, mention ( = μνήμη ) : Php_1:3 ; μ . ποιεῖσθαι , c . gen . pers ., Rom_1:9 , Eph_1:16 , 1Th_1:2 , Phm_1:4 ( cf. Psa_111:4 ); μ . ἔχειν , c . gen . pers ., 1Th_3:6 , 2Ti_1:3 (on the v.l . in Rom_12:13 , v. ICC , in I.; Field, Notes , 163).†
Moulton & Milligan — Vocabulary of the Greek NT
μνεία [page 414]
For the epistolary phrase μνείαν ποιεῖσθαι , which is used by Paul in 1Th_1:2 , Rom_1:10 , Eph_1:16 , Phm_1:4 , cf. the letter of Isias to her husband, who was at the time in retreat in the Serapeum at Memphis, P Lond 42 .6 (B.C. 168) (=1. p. 30, Selections , p. 9) οἱ ἐν οἴκωι πάντες <σοῦ διαπαντὸς μνείαν ποιούμενοι >, and especially, in connexion with prayer, as in the Pauline passages, BGU II. 632 .5 (ii/A.D.) μνι̣αν σου ποιούμενος παρὰ τοῖς [ἐν ]θάδε θεοῖς ἐκομισάμην [ἓ ]ν̣ ἐπι [σ ]τόλιον κτλ . and Kaibel 983 .2 ff. (B.C. 79)
Δημήτριος ἥκω πρὸς μεγάλην Ἶσιν θεάν ,
μνείαν ἐπ᾽ ἀγαθῶι τῶν γονέων ποιούμενος
καὶ τῶν ἀδελφῶν καὶ φίλων μου κατ᾽ ὄνομα .
Other exx. of the phrase from the inscrr. are Syll 929 (= .3 685) .79 ὑπ [ὲ ]ρ χώρας μόνον ἐφαίνοντο μνείαν πεποιημένοι , Priene 50 .10 ὅπως οὖν καὶ ὁ δῆμος φαίνηται μνείαν ποιούμενος τῶν καλῶν καὶ ἀγαθῶν ἀνδρῶν , and similarly Magn 90 .16 all ii/B.C. On the form μνεία for the older μνηία see Mayser Gr. p. 127.
Liddell-Scott — Intermediate Greek Lexicon
μνεία μνεία, ἡ, [Etym: μνάομαι] [Etym: = μνήμη] "remembrance, memory", Soph. , Eur. "mention", μνείαν ποιεῖσθαί τινος or περί τινος Plat. , Aeschin.
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Greek Lexicon
μνεία, -ας, ἡ
(μιμνήσκω), [in LXX for זָכַר, its parts and derivatives ;]
remembrance, mention (= μνήμη) : Php.1:3; μ. ποιεῖσθαι, with genitive of person(s), Rom.1:9, Eph.1:16, 1Th.1:2, Phm 4 (cf. Psa.111:4); μ. ἔχειν, with genitive of person(s), 1Th.3:6, 2Ti.1:3 (on the seel. in Rom.12:13, see ICC, in I.; Field, Notes, 163).†
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