זִכְרוֹן
zikrôwn · zik-rone'
a memento (or memorable thing, day or writing)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2142 (זָכַר);
a memento (or memorable thing, day or writing)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: memorial, record.
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
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to cut, to sustain › the open hand that covers › the head, the highest › to fasten and establish › the seed, life continuing
To cut, to sustain of the open hand that covers of the head, the highest that works to fasten and establish of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of זִכְרוֹן 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
24 occurrences · 24 OT · 0 NT · 22 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- for a memorial4 · 17%
- of memorial3 · 13%
- shall be unto you for a memorial1 · 4%
- and for a memorial1 · 4%
- this for a memorial1 · 4%
- place, for a memorial1 · 4%
- that it may be a memorial1 · 4%
- a memorial1 · 4%
- that they may be to you for a memorial1 · 4%
- to be a memorial1 · 4%
- shall be for a memorial1 · 4%
- nor memorial1 · 4%
- of records1 · 4%
- your remembrances1 · 4%
- there is no remembrance1 · 4%
- things; neither shall there be any remembrance1 · 4%
- for there is no remembrance1 · 4%
- thy remembrance1 · 4%
- of remembrance1 · 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.