זִכָּרוֹן

Exodus 12:14 לְזִכָּר֔וֹן <into> a memorial

And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.

Here: 'As a reminder': something that causes remembering and so brings the past event into present action and loyalty. It is not a monument to something finished.

Exodus 13:9 וּלְזִכָּרוֹן֙ and <into> a reminder

It shall be a sign for you on your hand and a reminder on your forehead that the Law of the LORD is to be on your lips. For with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.

Here: "And for a reminder": a thing that brings something to mind so that it is acted on. Exodus 12:14 used the same word for the Passover day itself. It does not mean a monument to something gone.

Exodus 17:14 זִכָּרוֹן֙ reminder

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Write this on a scroll as a reminder and recite it to Joshua, because I will utterly blot out the memory of Amalek from under heaven.”

Here: Something that keeps an event present and active in memory. It is not a monument to the dead. It is a record that prompts future generations, and God, to remember. The Passover is also called a zikkaron (Exod 12:14).

Exodus 28:12 זִכָּרֹ֖ן לְזִכָּרֹֽן׃ ס reminder, to a reminder

Fasten both stones on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel. Aaron is to bear their names on his two shoulders as a memorial before the LORD.

Here: Something that brings a person or matter to mind so that it is acted on. Here, with 'before the LORD' later in the verse, it means a reminder placed in front of God on Israel's behalf.

Exodus 28:29 לְזִכָּרֹ֥ן to a memorial

Whenever Aaron enters the Holy Place, he shall bear the names of the sons of Israel over his heart on the breastpiece of judgment, as a continual reminder before the LORD.

Exodus 30:16 לְזִכָּרוֹן֙ <into> a memorial

Take the atonement money from the Israelites and use it for the service of the Tent of Meeting. It will serve as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD to make atonement for your lives.”

Exodus 39:7 זִכָּר֖וֹן remembrance

Then they fastened them on the shoulder pieces of the ephod as memorial stones for the sons of Israel, as the LORD had commanded Moses.

Here: Something that makes a person remember. Here it is a reminder set in front of Yahweh, so that God keeps Israel in mind (see 28:12). It does not commemorate a past event.

Leviticus 23:24 זִכְר֥וֹן a remembrance of

“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘On the first day of the seventh month you are to have a day of rest, a sacred assembly announced by trumpet blasts.

Here: 'A remembrance of / by.' A zikkaron brings something or someone to mind, and in worship texts that often means bringing Israel to God's mind (Num 10:10). The verse does not say what event, if any, is being remembered.

Numbers 5:15 זִכָּר֖וֹן remembrance

then he is to bring his wife to the priest. He must also bring for her an offering of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He is not to pour oil over it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, an offering of memorial as a reminder of iniquity.

Numbers 5:18 הַזִּכָּר֔וֹן <the> remembrance

After the priest has the woman stand before the LORD, he is to let down her hair and place in her hands the grain offering of memorial, which is the grain offering for jealousy. The priest is to hold the bitter water that brings a curse.

Numbers 10:10 לְזִכָּרוֹן֙ <into> a memorial

And on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and peace offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”

Here: "As a remembrance": something that brings a person or matter to mind. It echoes v.9, "you will be remembered before the LORD": the trumpet presents Israel to God's attention.

Numbers 16:40 זִכָּר֞וֹן a reminder

just as the LORD commanded him through Moses. This was to be a reminder to the Israelites that no outsider who is not a descendant of Aaron should approach to offer incense before the LORD, lest he become like Korah and his followers.

Here: The verse opens with a bare noun and no verb: the bronze plating from v.39 is 'a reminder.' It is an object whose job is to keep something in mind. Here that something is a warning, not an honour paid to the dead.

Numbers 31:54 זִכָּר֥וֹן a memorial

And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the Tent of Meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD.

Joshua 4:7 לְזִכָּר֛וֹן <into> a reminder

you are to tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters were cut off.’ Therefore these stones will be a memorial to the Israelites forever.”

Here: An object or act that brings something to mind and keeps it active in people's lives. The same word is used for the Passover (Exod 12:14).

Nehemiah 2:20 וְזִכָּר֖וֹן and a memorial

So I answered them and said, “The God of heaven is the One who will grant us success. We, His servants, will start rebuilding, but you have no portion, right, or claim in Jerusalem.”

Here: 'Remembrance': standing in the city's memory, whether in its records, its worship or its ancestry. They have no remembered place in Jerusalem's past and none in its future.

Esther 6:1 הַזִּכְרֹנוֹת֙ the reminders

That night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.

Here: Literally 'the remembrances': entries written down so that they would be remembered. The word ties into the book's interest in what gets remembered and what gets forgotten.

Job 13:12 זִֽ֭כְרֹנֵיכֶם memorials your

Your maxims are proverbs of ashes; your defenses are defenses of clay.

Ecclesiastes 1:11 זִכְר֖וֹן זִכָּר֔וֹן [is] remembrance, remembrance

There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.

Ecclesiastes 2:16 זִכְר֧וֹן [is] remembrance

For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!

Here: Being remembered by later people: a name that lives on in the community's memory after death. It is the same word Qohelet used in 1:11 for the forgotten generations of the past.

Isaiah 57:8 זִכְרוֹנֵ֑ךְ memorial your

Behind the door and doorpost you have set up your memorial. Forsaking Me, you uncovered your bed; you climbed up and opened it wide. And you have made a pact with those whose bed you have loved; you have gazed upon their nakedness.

Zechariah 6:14 לְזִכָּר֖וֹן to a memorial

The crown will reside in the temple of the LORD as a memorial to Helem, Tobijah, Jedaiah, and the gracious son of Zephaniah.

Malachi 3:16 זִכָּר֤וֹן remembrance

At that time those who feared the LORD spoke with one another, and the LORD listened and heard them. So a scroll of remembrance was written before Him regarding those who feared the LORD and honored His name.

Here: "Of remembrance": a reminder or memorandum that keeps something before someone's attention so that it gets acted on. It is not a keepsake.