זֵכֶר
zêker · zay'-ker
a memento, abstractly recollection (rarely if ever); by implication, commemoration
Lexicon
Derivation: or זֶכֶר; from H2142 (זָכַר);
a memento, abstractly recollection (rarely if ever); by implication, commemoration
- a memento, abstractly recollection (rarely if ever)
- by implication, commemoration
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: memorial, memory, remembrance, scent.
Letters
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to cut, to sustain › the open hand that covers › the head, the highest
To cut, to sustain of the open hand that covers of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of זֵכֶר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
23 occurrences · 23 OT · 0 NT · 15 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the remembrance3 · 13%
- the memory3 · 13%
- at the remembrance2 · 9%
- and this is my memorial1 · 4%
- i would make the remembrance1 · 4%
- nor the memorial1 · 4%
- his remembrance1 · 4%
- there is no remembrance1 · 4%
- their memorial1 · 4%
- and thy remembrance1 · 4%
- to be remembered1 · 4%
- remembrance1 · 4%
- and thy memorial1 · 4%
- for the memory1 · 4%
- and to the remembrance1 · 4%
- them, and made all their memory1 · 4%
- is his memorial1 · 4%
- the scent1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.