Memorial, Memory
Memorial, Memory
me-mori-al, memo-ri (, ‘azkarah, , zekher, , zekher, , zikkaron; , mnemosunon): Memorial as the translation of ‘azkarah is a sacrificial term, that which brings the offerer into remembrance before God, or brings God into favorable remembrance with the offerer; it is used of the burning of a portion of the meal offering, the Revised Version (British and American) (the King James Version meat-offering); better, cereal offering, on the altar (Lev 2:2, the Revised Version (British and American) as the memorial; Lev 2:9, Lev 2:16; Lev 5:12, the Revised Version (British and American) as; Lev 24:7; Num 5:26, the Revised Version (British and American) as); as the translation of zekher (zekher), zikkaron, it is a memorial in the sense of a remembrance (zekher, zekher, Exo 3:15; the memorial (name) of Yahweh); hence, we have in the Revised Version (British and American) memorial name for remembrance (Psa 30:4 the American Standard Revised Version; Psa 97:12, the English Revised Version holy name, marin Hebrew memorial; Psa 102:12; Psa 135:13; Isa 26:8; Hos 12:5, the English Revised Version memorial); for memorial (Est 9:28; Psa 9:6, the American Standard Revised Version remembrance); zikkaron, a remembrance (Exo 12:14; Exo 13:9; Lev 23:24; Num 5:15 (of the meal offering); Jos 4:7; Neh 2:20; Zec 6:14); the Passover feast was to be in this sense a memorial … for ever (Exo 12:14; Exo 13:9); so also the shema (Deu 6:4 f) ; memorial occurs in The Wisdom of Solomon 4:1 (mneme), the Revised Version (British and American) memory; The Wisdom of Solomon 4:19; Ecclesiasticus 45:1 (mnemosunon); Ecclesiasticus 49:1; 1 Macc 3:7; 12:53, the Revised Version (British and American) memorial.
Memorial occurs in the New Testament as the translation of mnemosunon, a token of remembrance (Mat 26:13; Mar 14:9; Act 10:4, Thy prayers and thine alms are gone up for a memorial before God, which suggests the sense in which memorial was used in the sacrificial ritual, and also the better sacrifices of the new dispensation).
Memory is the translation of zekher (zekher) (Psa 109:15; Psa 145:7; Pro 10:7; Ecc 9:5; Isa 26:14, the Revised Version (British and American) remembrance); it occurs also in 1 Macc 13:29; 2 Macc 7:20. Katecho, to have or hold fast, is rendered in 1Co 15:2 the King James Version keep in memory, margin hold fast, the American Standard Revised Version hold fast, the English Revised Version hold it fast, i.e. the word preached to them.