**The Greek Term “Anamnesis”

[tmitchell2]

The Greek Term “Anamnesis” (memorial), from what I understand, is used 5 times in the NT, 4 in connnection with the Last Supper. Is this correct?

Is this a derivative of the term used in Ex 12:14?

I’m preparing an apologetics talk and it’s important to me that I get this right.

 

[Verbum]

Hi Tmitchell,

Yes the word is used 4 times in the New Testament:

Luke 22, 19; 1 Co 11,24; 1 Co 11,25; He 10,3

“Remembrance” would better fit all four quotes.

Your Exodus quote (in its Greek version) used the word mnêmosynon, a synonym of mnêmeion which is used for anything that calls up remembrance, even a tomb. “Memorial” would be a good term here.

Verbum

 

[tmitchell2]

Thanks…just to get this straight:

the term Anamesis is exactly the same word as Mnemeion which is the synnonym of Memosynon which is the word used in Exodus

 

[tmitchell2]

Thanks!!

If I could trouble you once more…is the same term used in Mark 11:21??

 

[But_for_Grace]

this is the word in Mk 11:21

ἀναμιμνήσκω
anamimnēskō
an-am-im-nace’-ko
From G303 and G3403; to remind; reflexively to recollect: - call to mind, (bring to, call to, put in), remember (-brance).

from

ἀνά
ana
an-ah’
A primary preposition and adverb; properly up; but (by extension) used (distributively) severally, or (locally) at (etc.): - and, apiece, by, each, every (man), in, through. In compounds (as a prefix) it often means (by implication) repetition, intensity, reversal, etc.

and

μιμνήσκω
mimnēskō
mim-nace’-ko
A prolonged form of G3415 (from which some of the tenses are borrowed); to remind, that is, (middle voice) to recall to mind: - be mindful, remember.

so it reads in the greek…

Mar 11:21 καὶ ἀναμνησθεὶς ὁ Πέτρος λέγει αὐτῷ· ῥαββί, ἴδε ἡ συκῆ ἦν κατηράσω ἐξήρανται.

 

[tmitchell2]

Thanks Grace–

Is the same word in Mark that you so wonderfully explained used in the other passages also, especially the Last Supper & Exodus versus?

 

[But_for_Grace]

Luke 22:19, 1 Cor 11:24 & 25, and Heb 10:3 all have

ἀνάμνησις
anamnēsis
an-am’-nay-sis
From anamimnēskō; recollection: - remembrance (again).

the word in Mark is the root of the one in Luke and Paul’s Letters

as for exodus 12:14 the hebrew word is

zikrôn
zik-rone’
From H2142; a memento (or memorable thing, day or writing): - memorial, record.

from

zâkar
zaw-kar’
A primitive root; properly to mark (so as to be recognized), that is, to remember; by implication to mention; also (as denominative from H2145) to be male: - X burn [incense], X earnestly, be male, (make) mention (of), be mindful, recount, record (-er), remember, make to be remembered, bring (call, come, keep, put) to (in) remembrance, X still, think on, X well.

the LXX uses mnêmosynon as Verbum stated above, it is from

μνημεῖον
mnēmeion
mnay-mi’-on
From G3420; a remembrance, that is, cenotaph (place of interment): - grave, sepulchre, tomb.

which is from

μνήμη
mnēmē
mnay’-may
From G3403; memory: - remembrance.

bringing us back to (see my previous post)

μιμνήσκω
mimnēskō
mim-nace’-ko
A prolonged form of G3415 (from which some of the tenses are borrowed); to remind, that is, (middle voice) to recall to mind: - be mindful, remember.

which is a form of

μνάομαι
mnaomai
mnah’-om-ahee
Middle voice of a derivative of G3306 or perhaps of the base of G3145 (through the idea of fixture in the mind or of mental grasp); to bear in mind, that is, recollect; by implication to reward or punish: - be mindful, remember, come (have) in remembrance. Compare G3403.

derived from

μένω
menō
men’-o
A primary verb; to stay (in a given place, state, relation or expectancy): - abide, continue, dwell, endure, be present, remain, stand, tarry (for), X thine own.

well that is the best I can give you unless you have a more specific question

 

[RobNY]

tmitchell2:

The Greek Term “Anamnesis” (memorial), from what I understand, is used 5 times in the NT, 4 in connnection with the Last Supper. Is this correct?

Is this a derivative of the term used in Ex 12:14?

I’m preparing an apologetics talk and it’s important to me that I get this right.

I know very little about this sort of thing, but Matt at Matt’s Apologetics page hits heavily on this in this article about the Eucharist. The part on anamnesis is in part IV on the institution of the Eucharist section. I don’t know if this helps, but perhaps immersing yourself in something however tangentially related will help you. Best of luck.

-Rob