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G3403 is a Greek verb for remembering, recalling, being mindful of, or keeping someone in active regard. Hebrews 13:3 commands believers to remember prisoners as though imprisoned with them and mistreated people as fellow embodied sufferers, turning memory into solidarity.
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G3403 is a Greek verb for remembering, recalling, being mindful of, or keeping someone in active regard. Hebrews 13:3 commands believers to remember prisoners as though imprisoned with them and mistreated people as fellow embodied sufferers, turning memory into solidarity.
The BSB source-word alignment has 23 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include remember (6), remembered (4), remembering (2), they remembered (2), by recalling (1).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Matthew 5:23. Its strongest book concentrations include Luke (6), Hebrews (4), John (3), Matthew (3).
G3403 is a Greek verb for remembering, recalling, being mindful of, or keeping someone in active regard. Hebrews 13:3 commands believers to remember prisoners as though imprisoned with them and mistreated people as fellow embodied sufferers, turning memory into solidarity. Matthew 5:23 describes remembering at the altar that another person has a grievance, so worship summons truthful movement toward reconciliation.
Hebrews 8:12 promises under the new covenant that God will forgive iniquities and remember sins no more, language of covenant pardon rather than divine amnesia. Other passages show disciples recalling Jesus' words after resurrection, Peter remembering his denial and weeping, God remembering mercy and covenant, and a dying man asking Jesus to remember him. G3403 opens testimony, repentance, forgiveness, solidarity, grief, covenant, and hope.
It corrects nostalgia without action and interpretations of forgiveness that require victims or institutions to erase facts, risk, or consequences.
G3403 describes memory brought into present attention and action. It may concern words, people, tears, wrongdoing, prisoners, covenant mercy, or judicial remembrance. The remembered object and the response distinguish care, repentance, warning, testimony, and pardon.
Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them.
Believers remember prisoners and mistreated people through embodied solidarity rather than distant sentiment alone.
So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you,
Memory of another person's grievance interrupts worship and summons a truthful attempt at reconciliation.
For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
God's covenant promise joins mercy and forgiveness with no further remembrance of sins against His people.
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Greek word. to remember
Textus Receptus witness, full corpusGreek token appearances from Scrivener 1894 Textus Receptus in the full New Testament corpus.
16 of 23 Greek text appearances shown. Linked morphology labels have verse guides.
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Read verseFull New Testament corpus: 260 chapters, 7,957 verses, 140,628 tokens. Data source: honza/textus-receptus (data only), with authority check against byztxt/greektext-textus-receptus.
How this verb appears across 2 occurrences in the NT discourse index (MACULA Greek SBLGNT).
Aspect reflects grammatical form — not authorial emphasis. Participles and infinitives are verbal adjectives and nouns respectively.
Clause data: MACULA Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0) · SBLGNT (Logos/SBL, CC BY 4.0)
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G3403 connects the past to faithful action in the present. Hebrews does not tell readers merely to think about prisoners. They are to remember as people who share bodily vulnerability, which can lead to visitation, advocacy, provision, correspondence, and concern for conditions of confinement. Jesus likewise lets remembered grievance interrupt an altar scene.
Reconciliation cannot be manufactured, and safety may limit direct contact, but worship must not become a refuge from responsibility. Peter's remembered denial brings tears; the disciples' remembered words become understanding after the resurrection. God's promise to remember sins no more is different from human memory loss. It declares that forgiven iniquity will not remain the covenant charge defining His people.
That promise should free repentance, not erase records needed for protection or excuse restitution. Healthy Christian memory tells the truth about grace and harm, honors those easily forgotten, preserves testimony, and refuses both vindictive fixation and convenient amnesia. In Christ, being remembered means being held within mercy, justice, and hope.
Heb.13.3
G3403 appears mainly in middle or passive forms with an active sense of recalling or being mindful. A genitive object or a following clause can name the person, word, event, or fact brought to mind.
Old Testament remembrance language describes God acting in covenant faithfulness and God's people recalling His works and commands. The new covenant joins truthful remembrance to definitive forgiveness, while the church remembers marginalized neighbors and the words of Christ.